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KoTE. — This lovely little plant lias been recorded both as P. minor, and P. media, 

 thus occasioning some confusion. Sir J. E. Smith, in his English Flora, first 

 started the idea that P. media) " might be the Pyrola of the Stokenchurch woods," and 

 other botanists, equally mistaken, have since considered it to be that species. In Mr. 

 Watson's valuable Cyhele Britannica, P. media is recorded for the Thames province, but 

 its localities in Oxford and Bucks, as well as in other counties, are said to " require veri- 

 fication" (ii. 160) which they do not seem likely to obtain. The confounding of the two 

 species may be the more easily understood, when I mention that the specimens of P. 

 minor from this neighbourhood Avhich have come under my notice, have presented many 

 of the supposed characteristics of P. media ; the style has, in many cases, appeared 

 longer than the stamens ; the stem, twisted, and so slightly four-anglcd as to appear 

 triangular ; the colour of the flowers, pure white, usually just tipped with pink, but 

 never " pale pink throughout" ; these points combined caused me, as they have caused 

 others, to think it at least possible that our plant might be P. media after all. Thus in 

 doubt, I submitted specimens to Professor Babington, who pronounced them to be cer- 

 tainly P. minor ; adding, * ' The annular stigma of P. media' is very difierent from the 



^five-lohed stigma of P. minor." This, then, must be considered as the only distinguishing 



I point of value between these closely allied species. 



j MoNOTROPA. Linn. Bird's-nest. 



M. Hypopitys, L. Bab. 219. "Common in this county, jH'w(i50?2. In Marlow 

 wood in abundance, Mr. Gotohed,'^ Botanists' Guide i. 36. I am un- 

 certain wbich. of tbe woods about Marlow is here intended. " Woods 

 between the Oxford and "Wycombe roads, sparingly," Phyt. i. 990, O.S. ; 

 Tennell's Wood, Loudwater, M8. ; Hughenden Woods ; also reported 

 from the wood above Avering Down Farm, opposite Bradenham; Wood 



I above the Union, Saunderton; Quarry Wood, Berks, in abundance 

 above the quarry, 1862-64; last year with diligent searching I could 

 find but one specimen. 



Order XLVIII.— AQUIFOLIACE^. 

 I Ilex. Linn. Holly. 



/. Aquifolium, L. Bab. 219. Woods, hedges, and commons. 



Order XLIX.— OLEACE^. 



LiGUSTRUM. Linn. Privet. 

 L. vidgare, L. Bab. 220. Woods and hedges. 



Fraxinus. Linn. Ash. 

 F. excelsior, L. Bab. 220. Woods and hedges. 



Order L.— APOCYi^ACE^. 

 YiNCA. Linn. Periwinkle, 

 V. minor, L. Bab. 220. By a path in Tinker's Wood, Downley, truly 

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