278 COMPOSITAE 



[P. oALLicA, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i, add. (1753). Syme, E. B. v. 71, t. 740. Nyman, 384. 

 Ambiguity or error. 'Has occurred in Berkshire,' Syme, E. B. v. 71. 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury tells me it is not represented from Berkshire in the 

 Boswell-Syme Herbarium. The Wellington College plant so named is, 

 according to Mr. Britten, GnapliaUum sylvaticum. 



F. gallica was gathered by Dr. Lightfoot near Iver, Bucks, and there is 

 a specimen in the British Museum from that locality ; it is possible that 

 Buckinghamshire may have been confounded with Berkshire by Dr. Syme.] 



ANTENWARIA, Gaertn. Fruct. 11. 410, t. 167 (1791% 

 A. dioica, Gaertn. 1, c. Mountain Everlasting. 

 Gnaphalium dioecum, Linn. Sp. PI. 850 (1753). 

 Top. Bot. 252. Syme, E. B. v. 78, t. 747. Nyman, 383, Fl. Oxf. 165, 

 First record. Giiaphalinm dioicum, Mr. J. Lousley In Russell's Cat. 1839. 



2. Ock. On the Blewbnry Downs, Lousley, 1. c. (?) 



3. Pang. On the hills at Hampstead Norrls, Lousley, 1. c. (?) 



4. Kennet. I seem to remember gathering this on the Ridgeway 



between Stockcross and Peewit Common, Reeks in Britt. Cotdr. 

 1871. 

 I have never seen this plant In Berkshire, but since It has been 

 found on the northern escarpment of the Chalk near Watlington, In 

 Oxfordshire, we might expect the plant to occur in Berkshire in 

 a similar situation. It may be pointed out that Mr. Lousley, who 

 records it from two localities, had not a critical knowledge of species, 

 and that G. sylvaticum is not included in his list. He may have 

 mistaken them. Mr. Reeks' record, which may have been a trick of 

 memory, has not been confirmed, so that the occurrence of this plant 

 in Berkshire awaits corroboration. Of the counties bordering Berkshire 

 it is recorded for two localities in Oxfordshire, in one of which it is 

 extinct, and for one (Swarraton) in Hampshire. 



GNAPHALIUM, Linn. Gen. n. 850 (Vaill. A. G. 1719). 

 G. uliginosum, Linn. Sp. PI. 856 (1753). Black-headed Cudweed. 



G. medium, C. B, Pin. 263. G. vidgare, Gerard, 515. 



Top. Bot. 253. Syme, E. B. v. 72, t. 741. Nyman, 382. Fl. Oxf. 164. 



Native. Inundatal. Damp places, roadsides where water has stagnated, 

 pond-sides, cultivated fields, &c. Common and generally dis- 

 tributed. A. July-October. 



First record. Filago arvensis, moist situations. Dr. Noehden, in Mavor'.s 

 Agr, Berks, 1809. Gnaphalium xdiginosum, Rus-sell's Cat. 1839. 

 Too abundant to need an enumeration of localities. 

 Var. piLULARE (Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 215, as a species), Koch, Syn. Fl. 



Germ. ed. 2, 400 (1843), M^hicli is probably identical with the var. 



lasiocarpimij Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 609, 1844-6, described as having 



'■ acheniis hispidulis.' The variety differs from the type in having hair- 



