274 COMPOSITAE 



5. Loddon. Bulmarsh, Budge. Wellington College, Penny. Am- 

 barrow. Fincliampstead. Sandhurst. Long Moor. Bagshot. 

 Easthampstead. Crowthorn. Sunningdale. Sunninghill. Wind- 

 sor Great Park. Farley Hill, &c. 

 A plant from Snelsmore had small oval sub-entire stem leaves. 

 Anotlier woodland form with broad stem leaves is the var. latifolia, 

 Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 355 (1837). 



S. Virgaurea occurs in all the bordering counties ; but in Oxfordshire 

 it is very local. 



BELLIS, Linn. Gen. n. 864 (Tournefort, t. 280). 

 B. perennis, Linn. 8p. PI. 886 (1753). Daisy. 



B. minor sylvestr is, Gerard, 510 (1597). 

 Top. Bot. 259. Syme, E. B. v. 104, t. 772. Nyman, 390. Fl. Oxf. 167. 

 Native. Pascual. Fields, meadows, &c. Abundant and widely dis- 

 tributed. P. Januarj^-December. 

 First recorded in RusseWs Cat. 1839, and by Mr. G. G. Mill, in Phyt 

 987, 1843. 

 The red-flowered plant is var. colorata, Peterm. Fl, Lips. 619. 

 Bellis perennis occurs plentifully in all the bordering counties. 



ASTER, Linn. Sp. PI. Gen. n. 858 (Totirnefort, Inst. t. 274). 

 '^A. PAxicuLATUs, Lam. Enc. M6th. i. 306 (1783). Micliaelmas Daisy. 



A North American alien, established by the sides of canals and brooks 

 and in waste places. Rare. P. August-October. 



2. Ock. This species occurs in several situations about Oxford, see Fl. 

 Oxf. 166. It is quite estabhshed in Berkshire along the Abingdon 

 Road between Folly Bridge and the Railway Bridge, by a watery 

 ditch-side. 



The late Prof. Asa Gray named my specimens. 



**A. Novi-Belgii, Linn. Sp. PI. 877 (1753). Fl. Oxf. 166. Nyman, 387. 



A North American alien, found as a garden escape in waste places about 

 Oxford and near Reading. I think it is this species which occurs near 

 Sandhvirst, but I have not seen it in flower. 



**A. LAEvis, Linn. Sp. PI. 876 (1753). Bot. Register, t. 1500 (1832). Fl. Oxf. 166. 



A North American alien, of which a specimen collected by Mr. S. Rudge 



about 1800 from Park Place Wood, labelled A. punicetts, Linn, in Herb. Brit. 



Mus., is referred by Prof. Asa Gray to this species. See Journ. Bot. (1882) 83. 



**Helianthus tuberosus, Linn. Sp. PI. 905 (1753). Jerusalem ArticJioke. 



Occurs as a casual on rubbish heaps and occasionally by roadsides, as at 

 Aston, Ferry Hinksey, Dry Sandford, &c. 



ERIGERON, Linn. Gen. n. 855 (Conysoides, Dill. Gen.). 

 *E. canadense, Linn. Sp. PI. 863 (1753). Canadian Fleabane. 

 Comp. Cyb. Br. 533. Syme, E. B. v. 107, t. 773. Nyman, 389. 

 .Alien. Introduced from North America, occurring in waste ground on 



railway ballast and gravel-pits. A. July-September. 

 First record. Near Marcham, Mr. F. Walker's MS. about 1876. 



