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pencilled flowers of the wood vetch, or starred with Gagea, and 
filled with masses of primroses, while the broad meadows of 
Liassic clay are covered with an extent of emerald pasture, 
whose continuity is only broken by brilliant Marsh Marigolds, 
or pale, faint, Cuckoo flowers. Between Charlbury and Hand- 
boro so sinuous is the stream that the railway crosses it nine 
times in 6 miles; Stonesfield, with its quarries, being about 
midway between the two places. Near Bladon, the Evenlode 
is reinforced by the Glyme, a two-headed stream, one branch 
draining Heythrop, the other Enstone, and uniting above 
Kiddington to drain Ditchley and Glympton, and the once rich 
common land of Wootton Heath. Here the Glyme is joined by 
the Dorne, whose source is likewise near Heythrop, but strikes 
off easterly to Westcott Barton, when it turns southwards almost 
parallel with, and not far distant from, the Cherwell, till it 
joins the Glyme above Woodstock, where having ornamented 
Blenheim Park, it is itself in turn absorbed by the Evenlode, 
which now flows by Church Handboro and Cassington into the 
Thames. Round the handsome headland near Wytham with its 
Cephalanthera haunted woods the Thames with its rich aquatic 
vegetation curves with a bold sweep to the northwards in a 
course of great geological interest, until near Yarnton it again 
bends to the south, by Godstow’s ruined walls, by the Hottonia 
frequented ditches of Port Meadow and Binsey, and the Lim- 
nanthemum ornamented pool’ of Medley, to the Senecio covered 
walls of Oxford. 
Wychwood is still the most interesting place to visit in this 
district, and its vistas—through its fine hawthorns, its hanging 
woods, with their profusion of pale primroses, and meadow 
saffron, its glades blue with columbines, or starred with mal- 
odorous garlic, the beauty of the fine old beeches in the Park, 
and the contrast of the lonesome pools, bordered with Bartramia 
moss forming carpets of brightest green, are quite sufficient in 
themselves to attract a town-dweller even if the following list of 
its plants had been more meagre in numbers or poorer in 
quality—Cynoglossum montanum, Ranunculus parviflorus, Hel- 
leborus fotidus, H. viridis, Aquilegia, Menchia, Montia, Maloa 
moschata, Trifolium striatum, T filiforme, Astragalus glycyphyllus, 
Vicia sylvatica, Spiraea Filipendula, Alchemilla vulgaris, Sorbus 
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