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A NEW LONDON FLORA. 



Gomshall) ; Trichomanes (near Shiere) ; 



Ruta-muraria (Merrow Downs and 



about Shiere). 

 Cystopteris iragilis (low wall west of 



the road from Weston Street to Albury 



Park ? olim). 

 Nephrodium spinulosum (bogs near 



Shiere) ; dilatatum (Albury). 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum (meadows in 



Albury Park; Losely Park near 



Guildford). 



MOSSES ABOUT SHIERE, GOMSHALL, ETC., 



FKOM 'SCIENCE GOSSIP.' 

 Hypnum illecebrum ; irrigunm ; loreum; 

 polymorphum ; stramineum. 



Leptodon Smithii. 

 Mnium rostratum. 

 Neckera crispa ; pumila. 

 Orthotrichum anomalum ; Sprucei ; pul* 



chellum ; stramineum ; tenellum. 

 Physcomitrion pyriforme. 

 Pottia truncata. 

 Pterygonium gracile. 

 Schistostega pinnata. 

 Tetraphis pellucida. 

 Thuidium tamariscinum. 

 Tortula vinealis; Hornschuchiana ; cu- 



neifolia ; marginata ; latiiolia. 

 Tricliostomum crispulum. 

 Webera albicans. 

 Weissia calcarea. 



47. WHITEMOOR COMMON. 



This common, three miles north of Guildford, is an extensive heathy 

 tract, low lying in the centre and elevated westwards and eastwards. A 

 road from Guildford to Chobham passes by the village of Worplesdon at 

 its south-western extremity, and a branch of the South- Western Railway 

 intersects it from north to south. The large pond which stood formerly 

 upon the heath has been drained, and converted into pasturage ; subsoil 

 sand, more or less peaty ; central parts marshy, slopes in several places, 

 boggy. A few Fir-trees have been planted at one end of the common, 

 otherwise the vegetation consists of Furze, Ling and Bracken, with the 

 following plants. 



*Achillea Ptarmica. 



*Anagallis tenella. 



*Anthemis nobilis. 



*Bidens tripartita ; *cernua (ditches near). 



*Carduus pratensis. 



*Cuscuta Epithymum. 



*Drosera rotundifolia ; *intermedia. 



*Erica cinerea ; Tetralix. 



*Eriophoron angustifolium. 

 Gentiana I'neumonanthe. 



*Helosciadium inundatum. 



*Hydrocotyle vulgaris. 



*Hypericum Elodes (bogs). 



*Inula Pulicaria. 



*Juncus squarrosus, &c. 



*Littorella lacustris. 



*Lychnis Flos-cuculi. 



*Mentha Pulegium (near Worplesdon) ; 

 *sativa ; *pratensis (between Wor- 

 plesdon and Pirbright, by a rill). 



48. BISLEY COMMON, PIRBRIGHT HEATH, AND COW MOOR. 



Westwards, and distant two miles from the Worplesdon referred to in 

 the preceding locality, is the village of Pirbright ; surrounded, with tl 

 exception of a grassy flat and a few patches of cultivated land, by vasl 

 tracts of heath and moor land ; hilly in parts, and rising westwards to th 

 elevated steeps known as the Fox Hills and Chobham Ridges. The Farnham 



*Molinia cserulea. 



*Narthecium ossifragum (abundant). 

 *tEnanthe fistulosa. 

 *Potamogeton polygonifolius. 

 *Radiola Millegrana. 

 *Rhynchospora alba (abundant). 

 *Salix repens. 

 *Scirpus cajspitosus. 

 *Scutellaria galeiiculata. 

 *Solidago Virgaurea (dry parts, east- 

 wards). 



*Triodia decumbens. 

 *Ulex Gallii. 



CRYPTOGAMS. 



*Aulocomnion palustre. 

 *Lycopodium inundatum (abundant). 

 *Sphagnum cymbifolium, &c. 



