fish-pond, known there by the name of Lady Dudley’s Pond, but which is now 
nearly filled up with moss, &c. and has become nothing more than a bog, plen- 
tifully : 1838, W. B. — Bedfordsh. Pools on Knotting- G reen : Rev. C. Aiibot. — 
Cambridgsh. Brick-kilns on the Chesterton road; sides of the Cam, below 
Ditton ; Swan Pond, &c.: Rev. R. Relhan. Pools in a brick-field beyond the 
Observatory ; and in a pond nearly opposite the * Cherry-Tree,’ on the road to 
Oxford: N. B. G .—Cheshire ; In a pond by the footpath front New Ferry to 
Park-gate, about half way: B. G. — Cornwall; Between Falmouth and Hel- 
ford : Tour. — Derbysh. Pond between Repton Shrubs and Milton: Rev. A. 
Bloxam. — Dorset; Ditches communicating with the Stour near Sturminster 
Newton: B. G. — Durham ; In a pond near the Frier’s Goose, below Gateshead ; 
in a pond by the road to Nesham from Darlington ; and in Corn-Mill Dam, 
near Team: N. J. Winch, F.sq. — Essex ; Bog on Epping Forest near Salter’s 
Buildings, Walthamstow ; and Marsh ditches by the right-hand side of the Lee 
Bridge road: B. G. Sandon and Banbury: M.N.H. — Kent; In the middle 
of Woolwich Common ; and in Romney Marsh: B. G. In dykes, abundant : 
Rev. J. E. Smith. In the water near the mill in Buckhurst Park: FI. Ton. In 
the ditches at Ewell and Nagden, near Faversham: E Jacob, Esq. — Leicestersk. 
In the Soar near Leicester, and many other parts of the river: B. G. — Middlesex ; 
About London: Sir W. j. Hooker. — Norfolk; Between Norwich and Bing- 
ham; and about Bungay. Common round Yarmouth: B. G. Abounds in a 
clay- pit adjoining the Vicarage garden, and is frequently mixed with T. lati- 
folia in other places about Stow : N. B. G. — Notts ; Wollaton ; Bulwell ; be- 
tween Bulwell and Popplewick; near Eastwood; and King’s Meadows, near 
Nottingham: N. B. G. — Shropsh. Berrington Pool ; and Bomere Pool: N. B.G. 
— Sometsetsh. Ditches at Burnham and Wembdon, not uncommon: N. B.G. 
In one of the Locks at Combe Bay; and in the Canal at Chippenham: FI. Bath. — 
Suffolk; Great Welnetham ; Culford near Bury ; pits of water about Swefling, 
Glemham, &c. Clay-pits near Bungay; Yoxford; and about Beccles, and 
Haleswoith; frequent: B.G. — Surrey; Battersea; ponds on Wandsworth 
Common ; and in l.etchmere, plentifully: Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. — Sussex ; Not 
uncommon in the County ; at Oare near Bastings: B.G. — Warwicksh. In a 
pit on Alne Bill, near Shelfield : Midi. FI. — Worcestersh. AtClifton-on-Teme; 
in a small pond on the Moors, Worcester; and in the pool at Bam Castle: 
N. B. G. — Yorksh. Near Scarborough: Rev. E. F. Witts. Old marl-pits be- 
tween York and Market Weighton; and Seamer Mere near Scarborough, plen- 
tifully: B.G. — WALES. Anglesey. — SCOTLAND. Fifesh. Loch of Lindore, 
abundantly: D. Don. — IRELAND. Ditch near the turnpike-gate between 
Belfast and Carrickfcrgus ; in Lough Banay, between Lisburn and Saintfield ; 
and in the lake at Sandy Mount : FI. Hibern. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root creeping, thick, and whitish, with many fibres. Herb 
smooth. Stem from 3 to 5 feet high, upright, round, solid, per- 
fectly straight and simple, without joint or knot, leafy at the bottom 
only. Leaves several, sheathing at the base, upright, from 2 to 3 
feet or more long, and a quarter of an inch wide, semicylindrical 
below, flat, and strap-shaped towards the end. Spikes or Catkins 
terminal, slender, with a smooth naked portion of the stem, from 
half an inch to an inch, between the sterile and fertile ones. Com- 
mon receptacle of both rather scaly. 
A variety, with leaves nearly half an inch broad, occurs on the 
margin of the River Cherwell, between Oxford and Marston, and 
also by the side of the River Isis, between Sandford and Nuneham ; 
and I have observed the same variety, growing with T. latifolia, in 
an old marl-pit, on Mr. Robins’ farm, near Rugby, Warwickshire. 
The down of the fertile catkins, both of this and of T. latifolia, has been used 
to stuff cushions and mattresses. The pollen is inflammable, and is often substi- 
tuted for the pollen-like dust of the Lycopodia in pyrotechnic exhibitions. It also 
forms a stimulating application serviceable in the cure of indolent sores. The leaves 
are put by coopers between the staves of their casks to prevent leakage ; they are 
also made into mats, or coarse chair-bottoms, and form good thatch. In Germany 
the young roots are eaten in salads. The fertile catkins matured form curious 
and beautiful objects. See Burn. Outl. and With. Bot. Arr. 
