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A NEW LONDON FLORA. 



Hadley Common. Mill Hill and Totteridge are separated from Barnet by 

 a valley in which runs the Brent stream. This stream encloses Totteridge 

 heights in a loop, and then runs westward towards Hendon. Subsoil 

 gravel. 



TOTTEKIDGE GREEN. HOLLOW BELOW ; BY THE BBEXT. 



*Acorus Calamus (ponds). 

 *Carex divulsa (hedgeside in a field on 

 the left by footpath from lower end of 

 the green to the Brent). 

 Chara flexilis (ponds). 

 *0rocus vernus (meadows near). 

 Dianthus deltoides (back of Osmund's 

 barn). 



Fritillaria Meleagris (meadows near). 

 *Hottonia palustris (ponds). 

 Lilium Martagon (Totteridge Park). 

 Mentha Pulegium. 

 *Kanunculus Lingua (ponds). 



*Allium ursinum. 

 *Alnus glntinosa. 



Equisetum maximum ? (between Tot- 

 teridge and Barnet). 



*Rhamnus catharticus (opposite Wood- 

 side station). 



*Rhinanthus Crista-Galli (meadows). 

 *Scirpus sylvaticus. 



Spiranthes autumnalis (also on Mill 

 Hill). 



*Viburnum Opulus. 

 Vinca minor (near Totteridge). 



HADLEY COMMON. 



A wood sloping from west to east ; where the ridge joins that which 

 borders the vale of the Lea westwards. Oak, &c., with an underscrub of 

 White-thorn, Briar, and Holly. Open grass glades in parts. 



*Bunitim flexuosum. *Melica uniflora. 



*Carex sylvatica. *0xalis Acetosella. 



*l)aphne Laureola. *Primula vulgar!-. 



*Euphorbia amygdaloides. *Sanicula europa^a. 



*Fragaria vesca. *Scilla nutans. 

 *Lysimachia nemorum. 



19. EPPING UPPER FOREST. 



From Buckhurst Hill to Epping town, a road via High Beech green 

 traverses the upper forest for its whole length in a north-easterly direction 

 for a distance of six miles. Forest land thickly wooded on the flanks, and 

 more or less so on the plateau above, where, however, there are occasional 

 more open patches of moor and heath, with frequent pits and pools. Near 

 High Beech and the Royal Oak are some small boggy bits, and within a 

 mile or two of Epping an ancient entrenchment called Amesbury Banks ; 

 between this and the Royal Oak is a central station, the Wake Arms, 

 where cross roads meet from Waltham, Loughton, and Theydon Bois ; the 

 best localities for plants, especially Ferns, are the gullies and hollows on 

 the forest flanks ; others must be sought for in the bordering fields near 

 Epping ; there is no abundance of anything out of the common in the 

 forest itself, however productive it may have been formerly. On the 

 south-east flank the lines of drainage are to the Roding, on the north-west 

 to an affluent of the Lea, called Cobbins Brook ; the vale traversed by this 

 stream divides the forest upland from Nasingwood Common and adjacent 

 high ground to the eastward of Cheshunt and Broxbourne. The subsoil is 

 gravel ; and the rise very gradual. The general vegetation is Hornbeam 

 and Beech, both much lopped, Oak scrub, Holly, Bramble, Briar, Bracken, 



