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Orv. LXXXI. DIOSCOREA, Br. 
TAMUS. L. 
T. communis, L. Black Briony. 
Top. Bot. 466. Syme, E. B. ix. 171. 1508. Nym. 718. Bx. 2g1. 
Native. Septal. Hedges, thickets. Common and generally distri- 
buted. P. June-July. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
Orv. LXXXII. LILIACEH, DC. 
* Lilium Martagon, L. Turk’s Cap. 
Comp. Cyb. 580. Syme, E. B. ix. 9.1518. Nym. 721. Bx. 501. 
Alien. Garden escape, as by railside between Church Handborough and 
Combe, F. 7. Richards! Established at Dorchester, Rev. F. Bennett. 
FRITILLARIA. JL. 
F. Meleagris, L. Fritillary. Snake’s-head. 
Top. Bot. 399. Syme, E. B. ix. 189.1519. Nym. 721. Bx. 1. 
Native. Paludal. Wet meadows. Locally abundant. P. April, 
May. 
First record, Dr. Lightfoot, 1785. 
4. Ray. Magdalen College Meadow, Dr. Lightfoot. 
5. Isis. By the Windrush at Witney ! and Minster Lovell, J. Albright. 
Near Bampton on the Isis, H. Bos. Eynsham, M. Arnold. Near 
St. Edward’s School, H. Peake. Standlake, Wh. in Watk. 
6. Thame. Cowley Meadow! Sb. Abundant in a few meadows 
about Oxford, Daubeny’s Guide. Both red and white, abundant 
about Oxford, Rev. W.T. Bree in Purton. Christ Church Meadow, 
Newb., do., Hb. Br. Mus. coll. Dyer. Osier holt near Sandford, 
1865. Iffey Meadows, Kennington Island, Thame, Chiselhampton. 
‘I know what white, what purple Fritillaries 
The grassy harvest of the river fields 
Above by Eynsham, down by Sandford, yields, 
And what sedged’ brooks are Thames’ tributaries.’ 
M. ARNOLD. 
«The purple Fritillaries which every Oxford man has gathered by hand- 
fuls in the spongy meadows about Iffley Lock, with their dark-spotted 
petals converging into a bell, and nectaries at the base producing each a 
drop of honey,’ Grant Allen, Mac. Mag. vol. 47, p. 33- 
Berks. Iffley, Burghfield, Blewbury, etc. Bucks, Gloster W., War- 
wick. 
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