48 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
County pale flowered forms are frequent, some of these appear to be natural 
hybrids. 
L. vespertina, Sid. White Campion. 
Melandrywm pratense, R. Silene pratensis, G. et G., w singularly in- 
appropriate name. L. alba, Mill. 
Top. Bot. 67. Syme, E. B. ii. 68. 210. Nym. 86. 
Native. Agrestal, septal. Hedges, fields, etc. Common and generally 
distributed. B. and P. May—Oct. 
First record, Plot 1677 ‘L. sylvestris flor. alb., Ger. One kind with 
yellow stamens, and a flower circle in middle; and another without the 
flower circle and with purple stamens. In the first of these the seed 
vessel not appearing at all, and in the second withering away with the . 
flowers; it occurs by Holywell and the New Park,’ p. 150. 
With pink flowers neat Nettlebed and Clattercut. The anthers are 
often attacked with, a fungus. 
SILENE, L. 
S. Cucubalus, Wib. Bladder Campion. 
S. inflata, Sm. Top. Bot. 64. Syme, E. B. ii. 56. 199. Nym. 88. 
Bx. 120. 
Native. Pascual. Waysides, fields, etc. Common and generally dis- 
tributed. P. June—Aug. 
First record, ‘ Papaver spwmeum in Oxfordshire with striped leaves,’ 
Plot 1677. 
The glabrous plant is more frequent on clay and in damp places. Mr. 
Baxter found @cidiwm Behen, DC. for the first time in Britain near 
Bullingdon, and Uredo Behenus, D C., on the same plant. Occasionally 
puberula is found with the type. 
‘The pubescent variety S. puberula, Jord. was first noticed in Merrett 
1666, as ‘ Behen albwm hispidum, the Hairy Spatling Poppy, plentiful about 
Oxford.’ 
. Stour. Tadmarton. 
. Ouse. Mixbury. 
. Ray. Headington Wick, etc. 
. Isis. Charlbury, Sarsden, etc. 
. Thame. Bullingdon. 
. Thames. The common form on the chalk occurring often as a semi- 
prostrate plant in chalky fields. 
Berks. Moulsford, Pangbourne, etc. 
NOOB DH 
8. noctiflora, L. 
Top. Bot. 66. Syme, E. B. ii. 66. 209. Nym. 93. 
Colonist. Agrestal. Sandy cornfields. Local, but often overlooked. 
A. July-Nov. : 
