NOTES ON THE FLORA OF MIDDLESEX. 15 
It proved, too, that drainage is gradually drying up the homes of 
our marsh-plants, and that the old moors and commons have bee 
mined converted into luxuriant meadows; that pools and water- 
courses—the favourite haunts of so many of our less common 
eine being everywhere “fi d up; and sept iw ord 
streams are now merely conduits for adj ome cn vil 
Nor has the limited chalk district in the extreme ome escaped 
the general dehenioratign: Improved farming, with its new system 
of cropping, has almost entirely exterminated the species charac- 
teristic of a oil. 
In short, after visiting all the districts into which the county is 
botaniealiy divided, the con pelos seneedn upon me ako, that the 
and in fair of being - 
ultimately stamped out; or at ‘leat. that it will weg ‘ed be sought 
for in the near oe Selig in the lanes and back-gardens of our count- 
ie suburbs 
A “iat a number of the stations recording the rarer 
species, and still retained in Messrs. Trimen and Dyer’s work, 
the maorty could have escaped ae In one or two instances 
plants were found in stations suppose sed to be lost, but on the whole 
I found that the authors of the ‘lora’ and others had made an 
exhaustive search, and left little to be gleaned by Tipe who follow 
in their steps. 
Fumaria micrantha was found to be not at all an uncommon 
t in districts 2 and 3; in py places abundant, as spay 
Harmondsworth, Halliford, between 
but F. pallidiflora and F’. muralis were = pore in any fiero 
Stellaria glauca. Youveney. Stain 
Cerastium arvense I could not find. in aay of the recorded 
stations. 
Geranium pratense. In plenty on bank of bridge over South- 
Western Railway at Youveney. 
rodium cicutarium. Uxbridge Common. Ickenham Green. 
Norwood. Stonebridge. Between Whitton and Hounslow. 
Linum catharticun. About Harefield. Ruislip. Northwood. 
Grand Junction Som? prigtes Denham and Jack’s Lock. Whet- 
tone. Near Warr 
Impatiens ton is aan spend in fields and cultivated 
ground between Hanworth and Twickenham 
Rhamnus catharticus. Plent tifal in the green lane between 
Cowley and Hillingdon, and between Hampton Court and 
Bridge.--R. Frangula. Coppet’s Wood. Muswell Hill. 
Genista tinctoria. Northwood. Meadow by Bayhurst Wood, 
isli 
P- 
Medicago denticulata. Between Hounslow and Chase Bridge. 
Between Whitton and Isleworth.—Var. apiculata. By the Duke's” 
River, near Worton. 
