302, FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
near Bicester. It occupies a space about twenty yards in length by five in 
width, being in fact that part of the enclosure which, from the nature of 
the ground, could not be profitably tilled by the farmer; but it did formerly 
extend over a much larger extent until a part of the copse which formed 
the course of the field was brought into cultivation, and this was the case 
only a year before I saw the plant, which was in 1837. In consequence 
I saw strewed in the furrows a great abundance of the bulb turned up by 
the relentless ploughshare. Happily, however, the spot, still untouched, is 
of that declivitous nature as to render it improbable that it will ever be 
encroached upon. Growing close by the Leucojum I found Galanthus 
nivalis and Vinca minor. The vicinity of these plants renders it in my 
estimation very doubtful (whether) the Leucojum is indigenous, at all 
events it is a long-established denizen, There are no traces of building 
at hand, but there is a small farm-house about 160 yards distant. The 
oldest inhabitant remembers the place in the same state that it was until 
the present occupier ploughed the field nearer to the hedge.’ EH. F. Witts. 
‘T have now in flower in the Bot. Gard. some bulbs of L. vernum, sent me 
about two years ago by G. Woodward, Hsqg. This gentleman informed me 
they were obtained from a brake near the Roman Catholic Chapel at 
Hethe, where they had established themselves in unusual quantities. 
Mr. Woodward tells me it has been known to grow there for more than 
a century.’ Gard. Mag., July 1836, p. 371; W. Baxter. Near Bicester, 
Bab. Man. Near a farmhouse, Bicester, Hook. St. Fl. Hethe is five miles 
from Bicester. Mr. F. T. Richards and the Author searched for it 
assiduously in 1881 and 1882, but unsuccessfully, no traces of Leucajum, 
Vinca, or Galanthus being visible. 
Plants from this locality are still cultivated in the Botanic Garden.] 
L. estivum, LD. Summer Snowflake. 
Top. Bot. 398. Syme, E. B. ix. 164.1505. Nym. 714. Bx. 55. 
Native. Paludal. Osier-holts and shady places by the Thames side. 
Local. P. May, June. 
First record, Rev. W. T. Bree, in Purton, 1821. 
6. Thame. Banks of Isis below Iffley and Sandford, Rev. W. T. Bree. 
Sandford, St. John’s Island, W. Barnesin Walk. In an osier-holt 
between Iffey and Sandford, 1865! Dyer, Hb. Br. Mus. Little- 
more, Rev. A. Ley, Rep. L. Bot. Ex. Club, 1868! Sandford, Rev. 
R. Linton! Banks of Isis near Oxford, Syme, EH. B. These records 
refer probably to two localities only. Between Sandford and 
Nuneham, Hb. Lawson. Marsh Baldon, H. Bos. Clifton Hampden 
to Dorchester. 
7. Thames. Sonning! F. Tufnail. In plenty on mud banks of small 
wooded islet on the Oxon shore of river opposite the middle mouth of 
Loddon, Shiplake, F. A. Lees. Little Stoke, Maple Durham. 
Berks. Reading, near Shiplake, Sonning, Wittenham, etc. Bucks. 
