FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 355 
Native. Pascual. Pastures, roadsides, cultivated fields, etc. Abundant. 
P. June. 
Said by Plot, 1677, to have been first sown in the Chiltern part of the 
county, to have been afterwards brought near Oxford by Mr. Eustace of 
Islip. 
First record, 1666, Merrett, ‘= variety with short and narrow leaves 
near Oxford.’ 
Sibthorp, 1794, gives a variety L. compressum, the Gram. loliac. spic. 
brevibus et latiortbus compressis of Morison, as an Oxford plant—it is by 
no means unfrequent. Var. D. tenue, Linn., also occurs on Shotover. An 
aristate form is not uncommon. The Darnel is a very common species 
occurring plentifully in Oxford by waysides and on walls. 
NARDUS. JL. 
N. stricta, L. Mat Grass. 
Top. Bot. 507. Syme, E. B. xi. 197. 1824. Nym. 846. Bx. 300. 
Native. Ericetal. Heaths. Local and rare. P. June, July. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
3. Swere. Furze ground near Hanwell, Gull. Hanwell Heath, Bees. 
5. Isis. South Leigh Heath, Sid., extinct. Ramsden Heath, T. West- 
combe, extinct. North Leigh Heath, 1885. instock Heath, 
1885. ‘i 
6. Thame. Shotover, Sib. Do., Baxt. ‘Lost,’ H. Bos. 
7. Thames. Binfield Heath, 1885. 
Berks. Cumnor Hurst, Bx. Northants, absent. Bucks, Gloster W., 
Warwick. 
Cu. II. ACOTYLEDONEL. 
Orv. LXXXIX. EQUISETACEA, DC. 
EQUISETUM. JL. 
E. maximum, Zam. Great Horsetatl. 
E. Telmateia, Ehrh. FE. fluviatile, Sm. 
Top. Bot. 531. Syme, E. B. xii. 150. 1888. Nym. 859. 
Native. Sylvestral, etc. Wet shady places, woods, hedges, etc. Local. 
P. April. 
First record, Sib. 1794. EE. fluviatile. 
3. Swere. Wroxton, Hanwell, Guill. Epwell Hill. 
4. Ray. Rousham, Bayswater, Beckley, Headington Wick. 
5. Isis. Handborough, Cornbury Quarry. 
6. Thame. Headington, Horsepath Lane, Shotover Plantations, Stanton 
St. John, Thame, Albury, Wheatley. 
Berks. Chawley Hurst, Bagley. 
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