CARDUUS 297 



Native. Septal and riatical. "Woods, hedges, roadsides, &c. Local. 



B. July-August. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1886. 



1. Isis. Pusey. 



2. Ock. Marcham. Tubney. Besilsleigh. Near Cherbuiy Camp. 



Boar's Hill. Bagley, 



4. Kennet. Padworth. Theale. Aldermaston. 



5. Loddon. Sandhurst. Near the Thames at Bray. Finchampstead. 

 A. intermedium is recorded for Oxfordshire, Hants, Surrey, and 



Wilts, and I have seen it near Bray in Buckinghamshire. 



A. nemorosum, Lej. in Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. xv. 54 (1853). 

 Top. Bot. 240. Syme, E. B. v. 25, t. 701. Nyman, 402. Fl. Oxf. 171. 

 Native. Septal and viatical. Roadsides, hedges, thickets, &c. Local. 



B. July- August. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1886. 



1. Isis. Near Appleton. Pusey. 



2. Ock. Tubney. Boar's Hill. Hen Wood. Cherbury Camp. 



Bagley Wood. Frilford. Wittenham. Dry Sandford. Cothill. 

 Didcot. 



4. Kennet. Padworth. Midgham. Newbury Wash. Inkpen. 



5. Loddon. Finchampstead. Winkfield. 



The localities for this species are avowedly very incomplete. The 

 synonymy of the four species of Burdocks has been very much con- 

 fused, and I do not think that the figure labelled Lappa intermedia, in 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 81, well represents our plant. 



A. nemorosum is not reported for E. Gloucestershire or Bucks. 



A. minus, Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf. 154 (i8oo\ Burdock. 



Top. Bot. 238. Syme, E. B. v. 24, t. 702. Nyman, 402. Fl. Oxf. 171. 



Native. Sylvestral and viatical. Waysides, woods, hedges, &c. Common 



and generally distributed. B. July-September. 

 First probable record, A. lappa, roadsides and rubbish, Mavors Agr. 



Berks, 1809. Erysiphe Arctii, Grev., is not uncommon on A. Bardann 



about Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 333. 

 Common in all the districts and in all the bordering counties. 



[A. TOMENTOSUM, Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). A. Bardana, Willd. Sp. PI. 

 ill. 1632 (1800). 

 Error. ' Oxford, ambi^ity. Oxford Botanic Gardens, 1867, to which 

 Mr. Baxter says lie brought it from Bagley Wood many years before,' Camp. 

 Cyh. Br. 530. See Journ. Bot. (1872) 332. Bagley Wood is in Berkshire, not 

 in Oxfordshire, as assumed by Mr. H. C. Watson ; but I have been unable to 

 confirm the record.] 



CARDUUS, Linn. Gen. n. 832 (Vaill. A. G. 1718). 

 C. pycnocephalns, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 115 (1762), var. ten:iiflon(s 

 (Curt. Fl. Lond. vi, t. 55, as a species). 



