3TO COMPOSITAE 



CREPIS, Linn. Gen. n. 819 (Hieracioides, Vaill. A. G, Paris, 1721). 

 C. foetida, Linn. Sp. PI. 807 (1753). Stinking Haxckweed. 



Barkhausia foetida, F. W. Schmidt, Saminl. Phys. Aufs. i. (1795' 283. 

 Top. Bot. 235. Syme, E. B. v. 157, t. 815. Nyman, 458. Fl. Oxf. 182. 

 Colonist. Woods, rough ground. Very rare. A. or B. July- August. 

 First recorded by Mr. G. G. Mill in Phyt. i. 989, 1843. 



3. Pang or 4. Kennet. Near Reading, i?e2?. o/£o<. i^xc/i. CZM&/or 1870. 

 See Journ. Bot. (1871) 184. 



5. Loddon. 'Tliis plant, which formerly grew, though very sparingly, 



in Bisliam Wood, does not appear to grow there any longer, but 

 it occurs in the waste ground on the north side of the Great 

 Western Railway close to Maidenhead Station, though but 

 sparingly. It may easily be distinguished in any state by its 

 root, which has a powerful smell of bitter almonds,' Mill, I. c. 

 C. foetida, which I have been unable to find in Berkshire, is recorded 



on very old authority for Oxfordshire, and with some doubt for Bucks 



and Surrey. 



C. taraxacifolia, Thuill. Fl. Par. ed. 2, 409 (1799), not of Willdenow. 

 Barkhausia taraxacifolia, DC. Fl. Fr. iv. 43, not of Sprengel. 



Top. Bot. 235. Syme, E. B. v. 158, t. 816. Nyman, 459. Fl. Oxf. 182. 



Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfields, grass-crops, railway-banks, &c. Locally 

 common and rapidly increasing and likely to become permanently 

 established in the county. A. or B. May-Avigust. 



First record. Maidenhead, the author in Bep. Bot. Eec. Club for 1881. 



1. Isis. Clover field, Cumnor. Longworth, Near Appleton. 



2. Ock. Boar's Hill. Shippon. Kennington. Didcot. Wootton. 



3. Pang. Pangbourn, Tufnail. Bucklebury. Hawkridge. Brad- . 



field. Tilehurst. Compton. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer, Tufnail. Theale. Reading. Hodcott. 



Soitthcote. 



6. Loddon. Maidenhead, the author, I. c. Sonning, Tufnail. Near 



the Albert Bridge, Windsor, Bolton King. Common about Bisham 

 and Hurley. Wargrave. Twyford. Sunninghill. Old Windsor. 

 Cockpoll Green. Near Park Place. Ruscombe. 

 C. taraxacifolia is recorded for all the bordering counties except 

 Bucks, but I have seen it near Taplow in that county. 



**C SETosA, Haller, fil. in Roem. Arch. i. (1797) i. 



C. hispida, Waldst. & Kit. PI. Ear. Hung. i. 42, t. 43. Barkhausia setosa, 

 DC. Fl. Fr. ed. 3, v. 44. Syme, E. B. v. 159, t. 817. Nyman, 459. Fl. Oxf. 183. 



Casual. Agrestal. Cornfields. Very rare. A. July- August. 



2. Ock. By the railway near Oxford with other casuals in 1892. In 



a clover field near Cumnor. 

 .5. Loddon. Wellington College, a single plant near the sewage works, 



Fenny, 1874. 



