TUSSILAGO 289 



4. Kennet. Denford, &c., Reeks, in Briit. Contr. 187 1. Round the 



walls of Silchester, Lousley, 1. c. (the locality is in Hampshire). 



5. Loddon. 'Near Wellington College, plentiful, Fl. ^Ve'il.,' Britt. 



Contr. (The Rev. C. W. Penny tells me he believes the plant 

 ■was A. vulgaris; A. Absinthium does not occur there now, 1 On 

 the bojders of Messrs. Sutton's trial farm, Tufnail. On the high 

 bank south of Maidenhead Station with other casuals. 

 A. Absinthium must be either a decreasing species in the midland 

 counties or else the older botanists mistook for it forms of A. vulgaris. 

 A. Absinthium is recorded for all the bordering counties except Bucks, 

 but it is only of casual occurrence in Oxfordshire. 



A. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. PI. 848 (,1753), and of Caesalpinus. Mugwort. 



Top. Bot. 252. Syme, E. B. v. 63, t. 732. Nyman, 378. Fl. Oxf. 164. 

 Native. Septal Hedges, field-borders, &c. Common and generally 



distributed. A common feature in our hedge-sides throughout 



the county. P. July-September. 

 First record. Mugwort in the neighbourhood of Wantage, Spencer's 



Complete British Traveller, 1771. Sonning, Mr. S. Radge, Herb. Brit. 



Mus. 1800. Probably it is the A. absynthium of Mavor's Agr. 



Berks. 1809, and the^. Absinthium of Fl. Well, in Britt. Contr. 1871. 

 In Berkshire the di'ied leaves are largely smoked by the country 

 lads under the name of Docko. 



Var. coARCTATA (J. H. Fors. in Linn. Inst. Skrift. 1807, not of Turcz., 

 as a species). Boar's Hill, Cothill, Wantage, Bucklebury, Kintbury, 

 &c. ; it has much narrower leaflets than the type with which it is 

 united by intermediate forms. 



A. vulgaris is found in all the bordering counties. 



**A. TouRKEFORTiANA, Reichb. Ic. Exot. i. 6, t. 5. 



An annual and casual from the East ; it occurred at Didcot in 1895. 



TUSSIIiAGO, Linn. Gen. n. 856 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 276). 



T. rarfara, Linn. Sp. PL 865 (1753). Colt's-foot. 



T. vulgaris, C. B. Pin, 197. Farfara, Caesalpinus. 

 Top. Bot. 254. Syme, E. B. v. 115, t, 780. Nyman, 397. Fl, Oxf. 170. 

 Native. Agrestal. Abundant on clayey soils throughout the county. 

 P. March-April. 

 One of our earliest spring flowers, the blooms appearing before the 

 leaves. 

 First record. T. farfara, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. With 

 Uredo and Aecidium Tussilaginis on it about Oxford, Baxi. Phaen. Bot. 

 n. 91, 1835. 

 T. Farfara occurs in all the bordering counties. 



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