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Onopordon Accrnthmin, Linn., was a not infrequent 

 species, but it was rarely allowed to reach maturity. 



Mariana lactea, Hill. This conspicuous milk-thistle 

 was represented by three or four examples and, though 

 occasionally seen in the St. Anne's gardens, I had no 

 reason to suspect its having been introduced other than 

 through poultry grain. 



Centaurea Cyaniis, Linn., and C. melitensis, Linn.; the 

 first named frequent ; the last named, in few examples 

 only, is a south European species. 



Carthavtus lanattis, Linn. {^KentropJiyUwn lanatum^ 

 DC). The foliage only, but there is no doubt as to the 

 species. It ranges from Portugal to Crete, and from 

 Switzerland to the Adriatic, Greece, and Turkey. 



Anagallis ca^rulea, Lamk. Only a plant or two oc- 

 curred ; but in an old fowl run at Birkdale, on the 

 opposite shore of the estuary it was most abundant, in 

 the summer of 1907, with many other aliens, as Cerinthe 

 minor, Salvia verticillata, Silene noctiflora, Delphinium 

 Ajacis, Silene dichotoma, Trifolium resupinatum, Bertcroa 

 incana, Anchusa officinalis, Chenopodium ficifolium, St achy s 

 italica, &c. 



Benthamia lycopsioides, Lindl. {Amsinckia lycopsioides, 

 Lehm.) Beyond making out this plant to be a species of 

 Amsinckia, I found it so dimorphic that I sent a range of 

 seventeen sheets to Kew to assist in unravelling the 

 species, some of which I named A. lycopsioides, and some 

 A. angiistifolia. Of these sheets eight were returned 

 named lycopsioides ; the other nine were unnamed includ- 

 ing three which I bad thought to be angustifolia. All 



