Flora of Ashdown Forest - Botanical Society of the British Isles

154Scrophularia nodosa. Common figwort.Common on the Forest IHall 1980).Common in damp, often rather shady places all over the survey area, frequently on roadsides, track edges and by ditches. Like the following species it usually occurs as one or two,isolated, scattered plants. It is pollinated by wasps.Widespread over much of Britain, Europe and temperate Asia.Scrophularia auriculata. Water figwort, Water betony.Common on the Forest IHall 1980).Slightly less common than S. nodosa with a preference for rather wetter habitats but notfound in the most acidic conditions. These preferences probably explain its tendency to berare on the higher ground.Widespread in England and Wales but absent from much of Scotland. The Europeandistribution is concentrated in the west, reaching as far north as the Netherlands, and itoccurs in North Africa.*Mimulus agg. Monkey~flower.The two records from the eastern edge of the Flora area are the first for the Forest althoughHall (1980) has several records from adjoining areas, especially to the south-west. Therecords are from Newnham area (49.28), 1994, AK and the stream north of Ocklye House1500.313),1991 +, PW.3 Mimulus is a critical genus and identifications need checking carefully (see Rich & Rich1988). The Ocklye House plant has provisionally been named as M. guttatus, a native ofNorth America.4 5*Antirrhinum majus. Snapdragon.Twyford Farm, blatant garden throw-out on spoil 1396.311 ), 1994, DB.A garden escape increasingly recorded in England, especially on old walls (Rich &Woodruff 1996). Native in the western Mediterranean.3-+~--------~-4 5*Chaenorhinum minus. Small toadflax.Tetrads 42Z, 43H and 43M IHall 1980).Two of our three records for this species are from the disused railway near Forest Rowand correspond to the two tetrads shown in Hall (1980) for the north of our area. This wasperhaps predictable as railway ballast is a common habitat for this plant, and until recent3 --++-__'!Il...-__---1....!--redevelopment it was abundant around the disused station in Forest Row just outside theFlora area. Our third record was from introduced limestone rubble on a turning area at4 5Pippingford Park 1456.312), 1995, Flora meeting.Common over most of Britain as far north as the highlands of Scotland, and widespreadin Europe and western Asia.