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CSarbenia benedicta, Adans. A plant of dry, waste, 

 and cultivated ground in the Mediterranean region. 

 Once recorded in England as a Turkish barley intro- 

 duction. 



Cfarduus acanthoides, L. Native of woods and 

 pastures in South-East Europe. In England and the 

 whole of Western and Northern Europe the species 

 confines itself to roadsides, hedges, and waste places, 

 and must therefore be looked upon as a weed dependent 

 on artificial conditions. 



Carthamus lanatus, L. Native in dry bushy places in 

 the Mediterranean region, but more common in Europe 

 ^s a weed of cultivated and waste ground. It has been 

 noticed in England only as a casual, introduced with 

 ioreign grain. 



'Centaurea amara, L. Native in the woods of Southern 

 Europe. One of the species recorded upon the site of 

 the 1871 Exhibition in London. 



'Centaurea aspera, L. Native of dry ground in the 

 Mediterranean region, and a common weed in Southern 

 Europe. It has been recorded among grain aliens in 

 England. 



Centaurea Calcitrapa, L. Native in dry places in the 

 Mediterranean region and naturalised in many other 

 parts of the North Temperate Zone, along roadsides, 

 and in cultivated and waste places. It has frequently 

 been recorded in England. With one or two exceptions 

 its English stations are of the latter sort, and, although 

 in a few exceptional places the plant is described 



