FIELD MEETINGS^ 1949 
• 59 
396/4 Cirsiuvi acaulon (L.) Scop. 
396 /4b do. do. forma cavleseens. Roichb. 
777 jig Phleum nodosum 1j. 
97/1 Cncvhnlu,s haccifer L., Merton. 
BARNHAM CROSS COMMON. 
37/7 Turritis glabra L. 
153/1 Medicago falcata L. 
153/8 xM. varia Martyn 
378/2 Artemisia campestris L. 
595/1 Scleranthus perennis L. 
777/3 Phleum phleoides (L.) Karst. 
777/3 do. do. subvar. hlepharodes (Aschers. et Graebn.) 
827/4 Bromus tectorum L., at Santon 
42/9 Berteron incana (L.) DC., at Stoke Ferry. 
827/1 Brom'us Gussouei Pari., at Stoke Ferry. 
785/1 Apera Spica-venti (L.) Beauv., at Wormegay. 
E. L. Swann. 
.AUGUST 13th. BROOK, GODADMTNG, SURREY, FOR 
WTULOW-HERBS. 
Leader-. G. M. Ash. 
Twenty-two members attended this meeting, which was held on a 
very hot day. The dry summer had shrivelled up most plants and the 
Willow-herbs were stunted and in most cases not at all typical of what 
an ordinary season produces. Nevertheless this very paucity of material 
emphasized the great value of pnhescence in the identification of our 
Willow-herbs and their numerous hybrids. Dwarfed specimens of E. 
Lamyi, E. ohscurum and E. adenocaidon were readily separated from 
one another by this means. A list of the species noted is appended, 
but there is no doubt that the dominant species here, as in most parts 
of south-west Surrey, is Epilohiwm ad enoc anion. This American alien, 
too, seemed best able to withstand the drought. 
The site visited is well known to local botanists not only for the 
Willow-herbs but also for the number of common species of J uncus to 
be found ; it is a good ‘ educating ’ ground. Among less common sjiecies 
to be found in a normal season there are Centunculus minimus L., 
Centaurium pulchellum Sw. (including its form Schwartzianum Wittr.), 
and occasionally Euphorbia Lathyris L. But principally this locality 
is known for its associations with the true Blood-veined Dock, Jtumex 
sanguineus L. var. purpureus Stokes, a colony of which greatly in- 
terested members when jminted out by Mr Tx)usley. Mr Lousley had 
known it in this locality since 1934, -when his attention was drawn to 
it by Mr. Wm. Watson (see B.E.C. 1938 Pep., 130, 1939, and 19Uj 42 
Pep., 568, 1944). The locality is known as ‘ Wareham Hill, Brook,’ the 
narrow strip of Atherfield Clay supporting a small brickworks, the sur- 
rounding hazel co]».se being cut regularly for firing. No doul)t the 
