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met with. From this point where the Ouzel district is reached the water-parting of the two 
districts is traced by Cranfield to Boughton End ; the Ouzel district is then replaced by the 
Ivel district, and the separating line is drawn along the Ampthill road to Malden, and thence 
by West End to Wilshamstead, Moggerhanger and Herring’s Green to Blunham Station, 
where it meets the East Ouse district near Roxton. 
The West Ouse district, although it includes the northern escarpment of the Lower Green- 
sand hills, is on the whole a very flat and low-lying area, chiefly on clay soils, or consisting 
of extensive alluvial deposits, and in many instances the strata are obscured by drift deposits, 
and for some distance the glacial clay obscures the porous bed-rock of the Lower Greensand, 
so that the flora of this area differs essentially from that of the Ivel and Ouzel districts, in 
which not only plants characteristic of arenaceous soils are well represented, but also those 
peculiar to or fond of cretaceous ground. Hence in this area Pelophilous or clay-loving plants 
naturally predominate. 
This district was however the one in which Dr. Abbot lived and in which the greater 
part of his research was made, so that many local plants are recorded for it. 
Among the species recorded for the district are :— 
Clematis Vitalba, L. - 
Thalictrum flavum, L. Common by the Ouse 
Ranunculus fluitans, Lam. Ouse 
— Lingua, L. Goldington, Oakley (Abbot) 
Myosurus minimus, L.  Biddenham, Fenlake 
(Abbot) 
Helleborus foetidus, L. 
Steventon (Abbot) 
— viridis, L. Goldington (Abbot) 
Delphinium Consolida, L. Near Bedford (Abbot) 
Berberis vulgaris, L. Clapham, Milton Ernest, 
Honey Hills (Abbot) 
Nymphza alba, L. Ouse ; as well asa small pink- 
flowered form 
Papaver somniferum, L. By the railway, Turvey 
— Lecogqii, Lam. 
Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. Wall of Bedford Castle 
(Abbot) 
Alyssum calycinum, Jacq. Biddenham 
Sisymbrium Sophia, L. Common (Abbot) ; 
sporadic 
Diplotaxis muralis, DC. Railway 
Erysimum cheiranthoides, L. Near Bedford, 
etc. 
tLepidium latifolium, L. Kempston ; alien or in- 
correctly named 
Stellaria palustris, Retz. Ford End (Abbot) 
Saponaria officinalis, L. Bromham 
Silene noctiflora, L. Ozk/ey (Abbot) 
Sagina apetala, Ard. 
— nodosa, Fenzl. Steventon (Abbot) 
Cerastium arvense, L. Ford End (Abbot) 
Geranium columbinum, L. Biddenham (Abbot), 
etc. 
— lucidum, L. Ehtow, Caldwell (Abbot) 
— pyrenaicum, Burm. Ford End (Abbot) 
Genista tinctoria, L. Clapham, Steventon (Abbot) 
Cytisus scoparius, Link. Ampthill 
Ononis spinosa, L. Too abundant in stiff soils 
Anthyllis Vulneraria, L. Ozk/ey (Abbot) 
Trifolium medium, L. Bromham and Mitton 
(Abbot) 
— striatum, L. Biddenbam (Abbot) 
— ochroleucon, Huds. C/apham (Abbot) 
Astragalus glycyphyllus, L. Brombam, Oakley 
(Abbot) ; Turvey (Miss Higgins) 
Lotus tenuis, Waldst. and Kit. Near Bedford 
Stagsden, Brombam, 
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tVicia gracilis, Lois. Clapham (R. Pryor) 
Lathyrus Nissolia, L. Putnoe, Brombam (Abbot) 
— sylvestris, L. Bromham (Abbot) ; under the 
name L. /atifohus 
tGeum rivale, L. Putnoe Wood (Abbot) 
Crategus oxyacanthoides, Thuill. Near Bedford 
Sanguisorba officinalis, L. Fenlake (Abbot) 
Pyrus communis, 1. Thurleigh (Abbot) 
— Aria, Ehrh. Near Fenlake (Abbot) ; probably 
planted here 
tChrysosplenium alternifolium, L. 
(W. Crouch) 
Parnassia palustris. Svteventon, Turvey (Abbot) 
Sedum dasyphyllum, L. Ford End (McLaren) 
S. album, L.  Steventon (Abbot) 
Drosera rotundifolia, L. Cat Hill, Ravensden 
Hippuris vulgaris, L. Ouse 
Lythrum Hyssopifolia, L. 
Oakley, Westfield (Abbot) 
Epilobium obscurum, Schreb. 
bould) 
— tetragonum, L. Estow (Pryor), Bedford 
*Cicuta virosa, L. Oakley Springs (Abbot) 
Smyrnium Olusatrum, L. — Ravensden, Oakley 
(Abbot) ; E/stoco 
Apium graveolens, L. Wishamstead, Goldington 
(Abbot) ; Edstocw 
— repens, Reichb. f. 
Green (Abbot) 
CEnanthe fistulosa, L. Ouse 
—- silaifolia, Bieb. Fenlake (Abbot) ; the true 
plant 
— fluviatilis, Colem. Ouse 
Carum segetum, Benth. and Hook. 
Clapham (Abbot) 
— Carui, L. Thurleigh (Abbot) 
Sium latifolium, L. Ouse 
tAnthriscus Cerefolium, Hoffm. Goldingron (Abbot) 
+Caucalis daucoides, L. Oakley, Westfield 
(Abbot) 
*_ Jatifalia, L. Oakley, Thurleigh (Abbot) 
Pimpinella major, Huds. Common (Abbot) 
var. dissecta, Druce. Twin Woods 
Adoxa Moschatellina, L. Céeat Hill, Ravensden, 
Lidlington 
Sambucus Ebulus, L. Between Brombam and 
Stagsden 
Lidlington 
Goldington Green, 
Ektow (New- 
Steventon, Goldington 
Goldington, 
