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BOTANY met with. From this point where the Ouzel district is reached the water-parting of the two districts is traced by Cranfield to Boughton End ; the Ouzel district is then replaced by the Ivel district, and the separating line is drawn along the Ampthill road to Maiden, and thence by West End to Wilshamstead, Moggerhanger and Herring's Green to Blunham Station, where it meets the East Ouse district near Roxton. The West Ouse district, although it includes the northern escarpment of the Lower Green- sand hills, is on the whole a very flat and low-lying area, chiefly on clay soils, or consisting of extensive alluvial deposits, and in many instances the strata are obscured by drift deposits, and for some distance the glacial clay obscures the porous bed-rock of the Lower Greensand, so that the flora of this area differs essentially from that of the Ivel and Ouzel districts, in which not only plants characteristic of arenaceous soils are well represented, but also those peculiar to or fond of cretaceous ground. Hence in this area Pelophilous or clay-loving plants naturally predominate. This district was however the one in which Dr. Abbot lived and in which the greater part of his research was made, so that many local plants are recorded for it. Among the species recorded for the district are : — tVicia gracilis, Lois. Clapham (R. Pryor) Lathyrus Nissolia, L. Putnoe, Bromham (Abbot) — sylvestris, L. Bromham (Abbot) ; under the name L. latifolius tGeum rivale, L. Putnoe Wood (Abbot) Crataegus oxyacanthoides, Thuill. Near Bedford Sanguisorba officinalis, L. Fenlake (Abbot) Pyrus communis, L. Thurleigh (Abbot) — Aria, Ehrh. Near FenMe (Abbot) ; probably planted here tChrysosplenium alternifolium, L. Lid/ington (W. Crouch) Parnassia palustris. Steventtm, Tutvey (Abbot) Sedum dasyphyllum, L. Ford End (McLaren) S. album, L. Steventon (Abbot) Drosera rotundifolia, L. Cleat Hill, Ravensden Hippuris vulgaris, L. Ouse Lythrum Hyssopifolia, L. Goldington Green, Oakley, Westficld (Abbot) Epilobium obscurum, Schreb. Elstow (New- bould) — tetragonum, L. Elstow (Pryor), Bedford 'Cicuta virosa, L. Oakley Springs (Abbot) Smyrnium Olusatrum, L. Ravensden, Oakley (Abbot) ; Elstow Apium graveolens, L. Wilshamstead, Goldington (Abbot) ; Elstow — repens, Reichb. f. Steventon, Goldington Green (Abbot) CEnanthe fistulosa, L. Ouse — silaifolia, Bieb. Fenlake (Abbot) ; the true- plant — fluviatilis, Colem. Ouse Carum segetum, Benth. and Hook. Goldington, Clapham (Abbot) — Carui, L. Thurleigb (Abbot) Sium latifolium, L. Ouse Anthriscus Cerefofium, Hoffm. Goldington (Abbot) tCaucalis daucoides, L. Oakley, ll'estficll (Abbot) •— latifolia, L. Oakley, Thurleigb (Abbot) Pimpinella major, Huds. Common (Abbot) var. dissecta, Druce. Tain Woods Adoxa Moschatellina, L. Cleat Hill, Ravensden, Lidlington Sambucus Ebulus, L. Between Bromham and Stagsden Clematis Vitalba, L. Thalictrum flavum, L. Common by the Ouse Ranunculus fluitans, Lam. Ouse — Lingua, L. Goldington, Oakley (Abbot) Myosurus minimus, L. Biddenham, Fenlake (Abbot) Helleborus fcetidus, L. Stagsden, Bromham, Steventon (Abbot) — viridis, L. Goldington (Abbot) Delphinium Consolida, L. Near Bedford (Abbot) Berberis vulgaris, L. Clapham, Milton Ernest, Honey Hills (Abbot) Nymphxa alba, L. Ouse ; as well as a small pink- flowered form Papaver somniferum, L. By the railway, Tnrvey — Lecoqii, Lam. Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. Wall of Bedford Castle (Abbot) Alyssum calycinum, Jacq. Biddenham Sisymbrium Sophia, L. Common (Abbot) ; sporadic Diplotaxis muralis, DC. Railway Erysimum cheiranthoides, L. Near Bedford, etc. Lepidium latifolium, L. Kempston ; alien or in- correctly named Stellaria palustris, Retz. Ford End (Abbot) Saponaria officinalis, L. Bromham Silene noctiflora, L. Oakley (Abbot) Sagina apetala, Ard. — nodosa, Fenzl. Steventon (Abbot) Cerastium arvense, L. Ford End (Abbot) Geranium columbinum, L. Biddenham (Abbot), etc. — lucidum, L. Elstow, Caldwell (Abbot) — pyrenaicum, Burm. Ford End (Abbot) Genista tinctoria, L. Clapham, Steventon (Abbot) Cytisus scoparius, Link. Ampthill Ononis spinosa, L. Too abundant in stiff" soils Anthyllis Vulneraria, L. Oakley (Abbot) Trifolium medium, L. Bromham and Milton (Abbot) — striatum, L. Biddenham (Abbot) — ochroleucon, Huds. Clapham (Abbot) Astragalus glycyphyllus, L. Bromham, Oakley (Abbot) ; Turvey (Miss Higgins) Lotus tenuis, Waldst. and Kit. Near Bedford 45