62 HAREFIELD PLANTS. 
Between West Drayton station and Uxbridge, scarcely a mile 
from the former, and on the left or Windsor side of the road, 
Adoxa Moschatellina was observed growing luxuriantly and pro- 
fusely. About half a mile further on towards Uxbridge, Smyr- 
nium Olusatrum was seen under a hedge in two places, but the 
plants were evidently much weakened by the process of scouring 
the ditch and weeding the hedge. Coniwm maculatum was seen, 
but sparmgly. On the waysides from Drayton to Harefield, S?- 
son Amomum appeared almost everywhere. The Cowslip and the 
Meadow Pink (Cardamine pratensis) vied with each other on all 
the meadows between Uxbridge and Harefield, and there are not 
a few in that tract. Senecio sylvaticus grew in some quantity 
near Uxbridge, on the Harefield side, but it soon gave way to 
plants which usually grow on a better soil than that on which it © 
mostly flourishes. The first chalk plant, Viola hirta, occurred 
about a mile before reaching Harefield. / 
The most interesting plant at Harefield is Dentaria bulbifera, 
detected here by Blackstone about 120 years ago, and stated by 
him to grow in such plenty that whole acres are covered by it. 
This is still the case. The plant is most abundant in Old Park 
Wood, and is surrounded with early summer or spring plants 
which, for luxuriance of growth, are rarely surpassed. At this 
period the plants in flower, or coming into flower, were the Prim- 
rose, the Bugle (Ajuga reptans), barely in flower, the Wood Hy- 
acinth (Scilla nutans) only expanding; fine large plants; Wood 
Spurge (Wood Laurel, as they call it here), large and very hand- 
some. The Dogs’ Mercury covered most of the shady parts; and 
rising above these common things, appeared the Toothwort, ele- 
vating its graceful stem about a foot above the former; its beau- 
tiful lilac flowers rendered it very conspicuous. The Wood Ane- 
mone was quite superb ; several patches were eminently ornamen- 
tal. Dentaria bulbifera is not confined to Old Park Wood, in which 
it indeed abounds, so much so, that cartloads would scarcely be 
missed from this locality. It is also plentiful in a wood called 
Garrett Wood, on the Pinner side of Harefield. Old Park Wood 
is on the west side of the village lying between Harefield and the 
river Colne. Garrett Wood is about half a mile from the village 
on the opposite side, towards Moor Park. In this latter wood 
a few plants of Orchis mascula were noticed, and abundance of 
Wild Cherry-trees : this tree is common in these parts of Middle- 
