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Native. Agrestal. Common everywhere. A. Flowers all the year. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
Var. 8. neglecta, Whe. Reich. Fl. Germ. 4905. 
3. Swere. Near Clattercut. 
4. Ray. Kirtlington. 
5. Isis. Port Meadow, see Report of Record Club, 1883. 
6. Thame. Shotover Plantation, Albury. 
Var. Boreana, Jord. 
. Stour. Tadmarton Heath. 
Ouse. Hethe. 
. Swere. Bloxham, Shutford. 
. Ray. Noke, Upper Heyford. 
. Isis. Stonesfield, Wolvercote. 
. Thame. Iffley. 
- Thames. Maple Durham, ete. 
Berks. 8. Hinksey. 
The typical plant is one of our most ubiquitous species, flourishing as a 
garden weed in the centre of the city. 
(Var. umbrosa, Opitz. In Warwick, near Honington. This should be 
found in the county; woods in the north-west of the county should be 
especially searched. ] 
TOaahb owe 
S. Holostea, L. Greater Stitchwort. Ail-bones. 
Top. Bot. 78. Syme, E. B. ii. 96. 230. Nym. 111. 
Native. Septal. Hedges and wood borders. Generally distributed, 
abundant on the chalk. P. April—June. 
First record, Blackstone MSS. 1737. Caryoph. Hotosteus arv. flore majore 
C. B. Pin. ‘In the fallow fields about Walcot and by the roadside be- 
tween Charlbury and Ditchley.’ Beesley says it is rare about Banbury. 
S. palustris, Hhrh. 
8. glauca, With. Top. Bot. 78. Syme, E. B. ii. 97. 231. Nym. 111. 
Native. Paludal. Marshy meadows. Local. P. May-July. 
First record, Caryoph. Holosteus arvensis medius . . . invenit, D. Sherard 
prope Oxoniam, and first in Britain: ante 1724. 
8. Swere. Broughton, T. Bees. Single spec. 
4. Ray. Otmoor! Sib., Stellaria media. Ambrosden! near Kidlington, 
H. Bos. Oddington! 1881, Bx. Betn. Oddington and Studley abun- 
dant, field opposite Mesopotamia; Marston. 
5. Isis. About Oxford, Sherard in Ray. Godstow! typical, Newb. 
Binsey! H. Bos. Port Meadow! betn. Heyfield’s Hut and Port 
Meadow! 1824, Bx. Near Eynsham, Wolvercote, Bruern. 
6. Thame. Betn. St. Clement’s and Iffey, Br. in Walk. River bank 
below Iffley, H. Bos. Ch. Ch. Meadow ditch, 1824, Bz. Marsh 
Baldon, H. E. Garnsey. 
