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A NEW LONDON FLORA. 



Scleranthus perennis (fields beyond ? ). 

 *Sedum acre (plenty about Sutton). 

 *Spiraa Filipendula. 



Spiranthes autumnalis. 

 Thesium humifusum ? 

 *Viola Mrta, var. calcarea ? 



Note. The upper portion of the Downs, where Thesium and the Orchids 

 may have grown, is now cut up by the railway and enclosed. 



ADDENDA. 



Near Ewell, Sambucus Ebulus ; Papaver hybridum. 



Epsom Downs : these are a continuation of the Banstead Downs in a 

 south-westerly direction. They are open plains, free from Furze and 

 Juniper. *Carduus acaulis ; *Spirsea Filipendula ; *Erythrsea Centau- 

 rium ; *Cistus Helianthemum ; *Poterium Sanguisorba. In the warren 

 adjoining : *Campanula glomerata ; with *Cistus in profusion. Copse 

 towards Ashtead Park : *Campanula Trachelium. 



Epsom Common, on the other side of the town, and fronting the chalk- 

 downs, but of lower elevation, is a turfy furze-grown waste ; the Furze 

 dense, and mingled with Bracken and Ling ; subsoil, gravel. *Salix 

 repens ; *Potentilla Tormentilla ; *Junci and coarse Grasses, &c. 



Fields bordering the Downs at Epsom : Linaria Elatine ; Bupleurum 

 rotundifolium ? (dim) ; Myosurus minimus ; Fumaria parviflora, &c. 



On a farm one and a half miles from Banstead Park, Ashtead Park : 

 Tilia parviflora. Cornfields between Ashtead and Leatherhead : Camelina 

 sativa. 



30. DITTON MARSH AND ESHER COMMONS. 



Ditton Marsh, about three miles west of Kingston, is traversed at its 

 upper end by the Portsmouth road and South-Western railway. Its 

 longest diameter is from north to south, and, inclusive of Western Green 

 (near the Thames Ditton station, on the branch line to Hampton Court), a 

 mile in length. It is perfectly level, furze-grown for the most part, and 

 generally wet and marshy. A rill runs along its eastern border, and there 

 are ditches and drains by the railway .embankment ; there are also at this 

 end and on the green adjoining several ponds, but the water on the marsh, 

 at any rate on its lower portion, does not seem to find an outlet in any of 

 these receptacles. Subsoil, gravel. 



*Achillea Ptarmica. 

 *Actinocarpus Damasonium (pond). 

 *Aira caespitosa. 

 *Anthemis nobilis. 



Arnoseris pusilla (sandy fields, about). 



Barbarea praecox (wastes about Ditton). 

 *Betonica officinalis. 

 *Calluna vulgaris. 

 *Campanula rotundifolia. 

 *Carduus palustris ; *pratensis. 



Carex vesicaria (near Esher station) ; 



pallescens (copse near Hook). 

 *Ceratophyllum aquaticum (pond). 

 *Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus (near Dit- 

 ton station). 

 *Erica Tetralix. 



*Hieracium umbellatum. 



*Hordeum pratense. 



*Hydrocotyle vulgaris. 



*Inula Pulicaria (roadside); Helenium 



(meadow near Hook). 

 *Limosella aquatica (pond between marsh 



and green). 

 *Mentha Pulegium. 

 *Molinia caarulea. 

 *Myosotis caespitosa (ditches). 

 *Myriophyllum alternifolium. 

 *CEnanthe fistulosa. 

 *0nonis spinosa. 

 *Polygonum minus. 



*Trifolium subterraneum (Ditton Green). 

 *Ulex Gallii, etc. 



