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NOTES IN AN OLD HERBAL. 
May, 1892. 
96. — Lunaria. —“ It growes betweene 2 olde Batts goinge from Oxford 
to Hedington.” The Moouwort, Botrychium Lunaria , is almost 
a thing of the past, but specimens have been seen during the 
last decade on Shotover. It was evidently not an uncommon 
plant about Oxford in the 16th and 17th centuries. A capital 
figure of the plant is drawn on the margin by the above record. 
97. — Burnet. —“ It growes in all our Oxford meades.” The Great 
Burnet, Poterium Sanguisorba , still abounds in the meadows 
above Godstow, and is also found rather generally in the 
Thames Valley. It is one of the few representatives of a more 
boreal flora which occurs in the counties of Oxford, and Berks. 
100.— Golden Rod. —“ In Chilsey Woods, 2 miles from Oxford, it growes 
abundantly.” The Solidago Virgaurea, or Golden Rod, has a 
very general distribution in Britain, but it is very rare in 
Oxfordshire. It occurs in one wood at least on the Chilterns, 
but it has not been recorded for Shotover. The locality given 
above refers to the small copse above the Childswell Farm, and 
was, doubtless, at the time the record was made of considerably 
larger area. The Golden Rod is still to be found on the Boar’s 
Hill range, and is rather frequent on the Bagshot Sands below 
Reading. 
103.— Comfrey. —“About Oxford abundantly.” It still holds its own, 
and its pendant flowers which vary in colour, from white, 
greenish white, pink, red to dark purple, are an ornamental 
feature in our brookside vegetation. 
120.— Goat's-beard. —“ It growes plentifully about Oxford.” The Trago- 
pogon pratensis is still common enough on rail banks by way- 
sides, about Oxford. Its large feathery pappus is a beautiful 
object. 
123.— Canterbury Bels, 1 and 2. —“ Thease grow in Merley Wood, by 
Botley.” Both Campanula rotundifolia and Campanula Trache- 
Hum still occur there. The latter is by no means uncommon 
in the woods of both counties. The former (if Campanula 
rotundifolia be meant, which is somewhat doubtful) is more 
frequent on sandy soil than a denizen of woods. It is the 
true Scotch Hair-bell. 
126. — Foxeglove. “ It grows plentifully in Chylsey Woods, beyond 
Hiucksey.” The Digitalis purpurea still occurs there and also 
on the Horsepath side of Shotover. 
127. — May lilly. —“ It growes in Chilsey Woods.” The Lily of the 
Valley, Convallaria majalis, although nearly extirpated, still 
exists within a moderate walk of Oxford, but it rarely flowers. 
129.— Calves snout. —“I found it in ye corne going to ‘Aristotle’s 
Well.’ ” The locality now built over. The plant occasionally 
appears in cornfields, &c., about Caversliam, and is an abundant 
plant in the Keunet Valley. It is the Antirrhinum Orontium. 
177.— Galamint. —“This growes upon Hincksey and Bootley Hills.” 
Not the first record for Calamintha Acinos or C. arvensis , since 
there is a note by Turner which probably refers to this plant, 
which is by no means uncommon in dry, sandy, and gravelly 
fields. 
180. — Wilde Sage. —“ It growes in Chilsey Woods.” Teucrium Scorodonia, 
L., still occurs there. It is a rather rare plant of North 
Oxon. 
181. — Horminum.- —“ Growes on ye olde wall on ye back side of Exeter 
Colledge Chappell.” The Salvia verbenaca is probably now not 
to be found on the city walls, but it is frequeut by the rail side 
between Oxford and Culham. 
