308 COMPOSITAE 



Top. Bot. 237. Syme,E. B. v. 122, t. 786. Nyman, 472. Baxt. t. 417. 



Fl. Oxf. 185. 

 Native. Viatical. Waysides, cultivated fields, borders of fields, &c. 

 Abundant on the Chalk, Oolite, and Gaiilt, and widely distributed 

 in the county except in the forest and heath tracts of the south- 

 west. P. May-October. 

 First record. C. intybus, Cichory or Endive, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's 

 Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 Pink-flowered forms (/. rosea) have been seen at Cothill and Dry 

 Sandford. 



C. Intyhus occurs in all the bordering counties. 



The cultivated plant is var. sativum, BischofF, Beitr. 26. 



ARNOSERIS, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 355 (1791). 



A. pusilla, Gaertn. 1. c. Small Swine's Succory. 



Hijoseris minima, Linn. Sp. PL 809 (1753). Arnoseris minima, Link, 

 Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 294 (1822). Lapsana pusilla, Willd. Sp. PI. 

 iii. 1623. 



Top. Bot. 237. Syme, E. B. v. 127, t. 788. Nyman, 474. Fl. Oxf. 185. 

 Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfields lately reclaimed from heathlands. 



Very rare. A. July- August. 

 First found by Mr. W. W. Fisher, M.A., in 1891, j^nd recorded by the 

 author in the Journ. Bot. 307, 1891. 

 5. Loddon. In a sandy cornfield near Crowthorn, 1891, 3Ir. W. W. 



Fisher. 

 Arnoseris is recorded for the bordering counties of Surrey, Bucks, and 

 Hants. 



liAPSANA, Linn. Gen. n. 823 [Lampsana, Tournefort, Inst. t. 272). 

 If. commtinis, Linn. Sp. PI. 81 r (1753). Nipple-wort. 



Top. Bot. 237. Syme, E. B. v, 125, t. 787. N3anan, 474. Fl. Oxf. 186. 

 Native. Viatical. Agrestal. Hedges, waysides, cultivated ground, 



open woods, &c. Very common and generally distributed. A. 



May-December. 

 First record. L. communis, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



With Ureclo Cichoracearum, DC, and Aecidium Composifarum on it 



about Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 150, 1835. 

 Lapsana communis is found in all the bordering counties. 



PICRIS, Linn. Gen. n. 812 {Helminthoiheca, Vaill.A. G. 1721). 

 P. Hieracioides, Linn. Sp. PL 792 (1753). Hawkweed Ox-tongue. 



Hieracium asperum, Ger. Em. 298. Linnaeus wrote the specific name 

 witli a capital. 

 Top. Bot. 222. Syme, E. B. v. 136, t. 796. Nyman, 466. Fl. Oxf. 184. 



