FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 275 
Var. oleifotia, Sm. 
Syme, E. B. viii. 231. 1329. 
6. Thame. Near Thame, Hb. Bz. 
7. Thames. North Stoke. 
Another form quite as distinct as the named varieties occurs in the 
pools at the bottom of Cornbury Quarry, its dark glossy leaves, with very 
glaucous lower side, at a distance suggest a phylicifolia variety. Rev. J. E. 
Leefe hardly considers it a cinerea form and yet cannot pass it as a laurina 
variety, its leaves being more obovate and silky than those of the latter 
plant. 
S. aurita, L. 
Top. Bot. 376. Syme, E. B. viii. 232. 1330. Nym. 667. 
Native. Hedges, thickets, and damp woods. Not common Shrub. 
April, May. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
. Ouse. Ardley. — 
Swere. Hardwick Hill, Becs. 
Ray. Noke. 
Isis. Bruern Wood, Stonesfield, Wychwood. 
. Thame. Shotover! Bz. in Purton. 
7. Thames. Nettlebed. 
Berks. Bagley. 
2S. ambigua, Ehrh. 
7. Thames. A small bush on Nettlebed Common, with some amount 
of hesitation, I refer to this hybrid plant; repens does not occur in 
the vicinity. Ambigua was found on Napford Common, Bucks, 
repens not occurring. 
S. repens, L. Heath Willow. 
Top. Bot. 377. Syme, E. B. viii. 246. 1356. Nym. 668. Bx. 142. 
Native. Ericetal. Heaths. Very rare or extinct. Shrub. March, 
April. 
First record, Sib. 1794. S. depressa, Hoff. 
5. Isis. North Leigh Heath, Sib. 
Walker gives it unlocalised, as if a common plant in Oxford. 
Berks. Sunninghill, Greenham Common, Brit. Northants, absent. 
Bucks, Gloster, Warwick. 
*§. nigricans, Si. 
Top. Bot. [23]. Syme, E. B. viii. 241. 1347. Nym. 668. 
South limit, in Surrey (?), Oxford (?), Hereford (?), Cyb. Br. 2. 397. 
‘Something has been recorded from Oxford as nigricans. Comp. 
Cyb. Brit. 568. Mr. Watson’s characteristic sentence does not quite 
accurately describe the record. The plant recorded was correctly identified. 
Its indigenity was very doubtful. 
Done Ww Lo 
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