HAREFIELD PLANTS. 65 
Breakspears. Rubus ideus, Harefield Moor. Saponaria offici- 
nalis, hedge near Uxbridge churchyard. Petroselinum segetum, 
roadside near Haton ( Eton?), sparmgly. Atropa Belladonna, 
gravel-pit near Old Park, Moor Park, abundantly. Pyrus tor- 
minalis, “in sylvis et sepibus.’ Specularia hybrida, cornfield 
near the chalkpit, Harefield. Sedum Telephium, “in umbrosis 
et interdum inter segetes.’ Euphorbia platyphyllos, cornfield be- 
tween Harefield Common and Battleswell. Campanula Trachelium, 
Old Park Wood. C. glomerata, chalkpit, Gerard’s Cross (this 
station, or locality, is many miles from Harefield). Menyanthes 
trifolata, Harefield Moor. Verbascum nigrum, “ad margines 
agrorum sed non ita frequens.” Dianthus Armeria, between Hare- 
field and Chalfont, very sparingly. Viscum album, “ plerisque 
arboribus tnnascitur.” 
The above-mentioned plants, with their localities, are entered 
here rather with a view to direct the attention of botanists to 
Harefield, than to exhaust the subject. The following, from the 
‘ Botanist’s Guide,’ are given with the same object. Helleborus 
viridis, near Harefield. athyrus Nissolia, meadow near Hare- 
field church. Cicuta virosa, near Denham. 
In walking from West Drayton station to Uxbridge, at Cowley, 
on an ancient brick wall, a Sedum, probably album, was noticed 
in considerable abundance. The Hop was observed pretty fre- 
quently in the hedges that skirt the same road. It may further 
be stated, that Clematis Vitalba was occasionally seen, distant se- 
veral miles from the outcrop of the chalk. The soil about Hare- 
field appears to be gravelly or sandy or marly, and of more or 
less depth above the chalk, which comes to the surface in several 
spots, and especially in Garret Wood, which is partly in Hert- 
fordshire and partly in Middlesex. The elevation of the highest 
ground in the parish does not probably exceed eighty yards above 
the level of the Colne. The surface is hilly, but the hills are 
of little elevation. Much of the land is grazed: cultivation only 
commences about the village, where the soil is poorer, and more 
gravelly than on the southern or Uxbridge side of the parish. 
We beg leave to reiterate our request for more information about 
the botany of Harefield. This place, interesting as it is from 
its association with one of our earlier botanists, who was the 
contemporary and correspondent of Sir Hans Sloane, the Me- 
cenas of that period, appears to have fallen into oblivion. Its 
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