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LEICESTERSHIRE FLORA. 
By the Rev. Andrew Bloxam. 
I beg to send, for insertion in The Naturalist^ the result of my botanical excur¬ 
sions in Leicestershire, the south-western half of the county chiefly having been 
explored. The catalogue contains about seven hundred species. 
Class I. Hippuris vulgaris. River Soar, near Ayleston, pond at -Staunton 
Harold; near Shenton. 
Class II. Ligustrum vulgare. In hedges, common.— Veronica serpyllifolia. Com. 
— V. scutellata. Grooby Pool; between NewboldVerdun and Desford; in a pond on 
the left of the road, between Cadeby and Sutton.—F. anagallis. —F. Beccabunga. 
—F. officinalis. Not uncommon.—F. montana. Woods in Charnwood Forest.— 
F. Charmcedrys. —F. hedercefolia. — -F. agrestis. — V. polita. In gardens and cul¬ 
tivated fields, with the foregoing; not rare.—F. arvensis. — Pinguicula vidgaris. 
Formerly at Grooby Pool, and Pocket-gate, near Loughborough, found now but 
sparingly in Charnwood Forest.— Utricidaria vulgaris. Canal, near Congerstone. 
Lycopus Europceus. Very common in watery ditches.— Salvia verbenaca. On 
rocks about Croft village.— Circcea luetiana. Charnwood Forest woods.— Frax- 
inus excelsior.—Lemna trisulca. About Congerstone.— L. minor. — L. polyrrhiza. 
Pond at Kirkby Mallory; ponds near Enderby.— L. gibba. Ponds at Conger¬ 
stone.— odoratum. 
Class III.— Valeriana dioica. —F. officinalis. — Fedia olitoria. Near Ayleston. 
—F. dentata. Near Braunstone.— Iris pseudacorus. — Scirpus lacustris. — S. 
setaceus. Charnwood Forest. Near Mount Bos worth.— S. sylvaticus. Near 
Kirby ruins; Sheet-hedges Wood, near Grooby Pool; Mount Bosworth, near 
Congerstone; not rare in the county.— Eleocharis palustris. — E. acicularis. 
Banks of Grooby Pool.— E.fluitans. Charnwood Forest.— Eriophorumpubescens. 
Near Loughborough.— E. angustifolium. Grooby Pool.— Nardus stricta. Charn¬ 
wood Forest; about Congerstone.— Alopecurus pratensis. — A. agrestis. Not rare. 
— A. geniculatus. — Phalaris Canariensis. Near Zouch Mill.— P. arundinacea. 
— Phleum pratense. — Milium effusum. Nailstone Wigs ; between Mount Bos¬ 
worth and Sutton.— Calamagrostis epigejos. In Martinshaw; abundant in Bos¬ 
worth Park, and at the Ambien Wood.— Agrostis canina. — A. vulgaris. — A. alba. 
A. var. pumila. In Sibson Gorse cover.— Catabrosa aquatica. — Air a cristata. 
Croft Hill.— A. ccespitosa. — A.flexuosa. Charnwood Forest; near Braunston.— 
A. caryopliyllea. Near Newtown Unthank.— A. prcecox. Croft Hill.— Melica 
unijiora. Charnwood Forest; Ratby Woods; near Mount Bosworth.— M. cm- 
rulea. Charnwood Forest.- —Holcm mollis. Near Newbold Verdun.^— H. la- 
natus.-^Arrhenatherum avenaceum.—Poa aquatica.^P. fluitans.^P. trivialis .— 
