BRITTEN: FLORA OF HIGH WYCOMBE. 



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Lactuca. Linn. Lettuce. 

 L. virosa^ L. Bab. 196. Abundant on the steep gravelly banks on the left 



of the road going up White Hill, towards Beaconfield. 

 L. muralis, DC. Bab. 196. In woods and on old walls. 



Leontodon. Linn. Dandelion. 

 L. Taraxacum, L. Bab. 196. Common in almost every situation. 

 )8. Icevigatum, DC. Walls at Bradenham, etc, 

 SoNCHUS. Linn. Sowthistle. 

 '8. oleraceus, L. Bab. 197. Fields and waste places. 



Note. — " There were two specimens, growing in a wet hoUow at the top of Bishani 

 wood, [Berks] of an enormous size. I should think they were at least eight feet high, 

 and were proportionately large in all their parts." Phyt. i. 989. O.S. 



S. asj)e7\ Hoffm. Bal. 197. Fields and waste places. 



>S^. arvensis, L. Bab. 197. Cornfields and borders of fields. 



Crepis. Linn. Hawk's-beard. 



* C. setosa, L. Bab. 198. In clover fields : near Hughenden Park, with 

 Helminthia ; and by the field path from Wycombe to Tyler's Green. 



[O.foetida, L. "Eare." Bab. 198. " Formerly grew, though very spa- 

 ringly, in Bisham wood; [it] does not appear to grow there any longer." 

 Phyt i. 989. O.S.'\ 



O. virens, L. Bab. 198. Fields, roadsides, etc. 



Note. — A variety similar to that recorded above of Lapsana communis has occurred 



near "Wycombe, July, 1866. 



Hieraoium. Linn. Hawkweed. 

 H. Pilosella, L. Bab. 199. Roadsides and banks. 

 H. murorum, L. Bab. 205. In the top wood in Wycombe Park. 

 \H. vulgatum, Fr. Bab. 206. Woods and banks, not uncommon. 

 [ //. umbellatum, L. I believe this occurs in the district, but cannot 

 I remember any definite locality.] 



i^. horeale, Fr. Bab. 208. Woods, banks, and roadsides. [Mr. T. P. 

 Lucas had in his herbarium a plant from Flackwell Heath, labelled " H. 

 Halleri, var. of H. alpinum;" I am unacquainted with the species, but 

 think it probably misnamed : and that H. horeale was intended.] 



Order XLVI.— CAMPANULACE^. 

 Jasionb. Limi. Sheep's Scabious. 

 J. monfana, L. Bab. 210. This plant is, I presume, frequent in some 

 places about Marlow, as it occurs in Mr. Mill's list with no locality 

 affixed. I have not met with it in the district. 



