202 SCEOPHUIiAEIACE^. 



Sides of ditches ; very rare. P. July, August. 

 VII. Belsize Park, Mr. Sowerby, Aug. 24, 1841 ; E. B. S. Specimens were 

 exhibited at the meeting of the Linnsean Society on Dec. 6, 1841. 

 There are specimens collected at the same place, 'July 1841, 

 J. De C. Sowerby ' in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 It has not since been met with. This is the 8. aqnatica of Fries 

 and some other continental botanists. The Eev. C. A. Stevens's paper, 

 distinguishing it from the true S. aquatica of Linnseus, was read 

 Feb. 13, 1840, before the Edinburgh Botanical Society, and may be 

 also found in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i.] 



483. S. aqnatica, L. S. Balbisii, Hornem. (L. Cat.). Water Betony. 

 S. a. major, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 213. Curt. F. L. f. 5. 



Sides of ditches and streams, and in wet places ; common. P. June- 

 September. 

 ■ I. Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 92. Ruislip Eeservoir ; Eastcot ; Pinner 

 Melv. 56. 

 II. Staines. Hampton ! ; Bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge 

 Newb. 



III. By the Cran at Hanworth Eoad and Twickenham. Duke's River 



Isleworth, abundant. By the Brent ; Farrar. 



IV. Hampstead ; /rt). ilf-S(S. Bet. HendonandFinchley ! ; .NewJ. Bishop's 



Wood. 

 v. Greenford; Cooper, 108. Horsington Hill. Near Ealing. 

 VI. Ponder's End ; Cherry. Edmonton. Whetstone. 

 VII. Lea, near Hackney. Isle of Dogs. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



(S, vernalis, L. Cyb. Br. ii. 214 ; iii. 473. Syme E. B. vi. t. 951. Re- 

 corded for Middlesex, G. B. Wollaston ; I'hyt. N. S. vi. 63. We have 

 not met with any record.) 



LIMOSELLA, Linn. 



484. Xi. aquatica, L. 



Plantago aquatica mitiima Clusii, Park. (Merrett, Blackst.). Plantaginella 



palustris (Pet., Doody). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 222 ; iii. 475. Syme E. B. vi. t. 968. 



Borders of ponds and muddy places ; rare. A. or P. July — September. 



I. By the sides of the Warren Pond near Breakspears, plentifully ; in 

 the bogs on Harefield Common ; Blackst. Fasc. 78. By the reser- 

 voir at Elstree, very scarce, Fl. Herts. 211. Wet ruts in the 

 cart-track leading to the keeper's house on the summit of the ridge, 

 North Minis, in profusion, June 1856; Phyt. N. S. i. 407, but pro- 

 bably in Herts. 



