3l6 COMPOSITAE 



Native. Ericetal. Open sunny spots on sandy and gravelly heaths. 



Very local. A. .June- August. 

 First recorded by the author in Rep. Bot. Exch. Club, 1891. 



1. Isis. Near Buckland, Miss M. Niven, 



5. Loddon. Near Wellington College. Ambarrow. Near White- 

 moor Bog. Bracknell. By railway between Bracknell and Ascot. 



It is quite likely that this very restricted area may be enlarged by 

 carefully searching the many sandy heaths in the Kennet and Pang 

 districts, but so far the plant has eluded my observation in these 

 localities. Our plant comes under the var, a, genuina of Syme, E. B. 

 I.e., but is scarcely typical. 



H. glabra is recorded for all the bordering counties except Oxfordshire. 



H. radicata, Linn. Sp. PL 810 (i753). Long-rooted Hawkweed, Cafs-ear. 

 Top. Bot. 225. Syme, E. B. v. 129, t. 790. Nyman, 470. El. Oxf. 185. 

 Native. Pascual, &c. Pastures, meadows, heaths, waste places, &c. 



Very common and generally distributed, especially abundant on 



gravels and sands. P. May-September. 

 First record. H. radicata, Mr. Baxter's MSS. 1823. Published in RusseU'a 



Cat. of 1839. 

 A vei'y variable plant both in size and in degree of pubescence ; the 

 extreme hispid state is the var. hispida, Peterm. Fl. Lips. 574 ; the 

 dwarf form, which is frequent in the grassy turf of the dry commons, is 

 var. MLNOR, Schultz et Bipon. Nov. Act. Lipp. xxi. 127. See Reichb. Ic. 

 Fl. Germ. ei. Helv. xix. 22, t. 1398, f. i. 



H. radicata is found abundantly in all the bordering counties. 



IjEONTODOW, Linn. Gen. n. 817 {Taraxaconoides, Vaill.). 



Ii. Mrtunx, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, ii. 1194. 



Thrincia hirta, Roth, Cat. i. 98. Apargia hirta, Scop. Fl. Carn. ii. 114 

 (1772). Hedypnois hirtum, Sm. E. B. t. 555 (1799). 



Top. Bot. 223. Syme, E. B. v. 131, t. 792. Nyman, 470. Fl. Oxf. 185. 



Native. Glareal, &c. Sandy and gravelly pastures, heaths, and road- 

 sides. Locally common. A. B. or P. May-September. 



First record. Hieracium pumilum saxatile asperum praemorsa radice, C. B. 

 . . . divers other places about Oxford, Bobart in Ray, Syn. 73, 1696. 

 Thrincia hirta in Russell's Newbury Cat. 1839. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Near Pusey. Near Faringdon. Coxwell. 



2. Oct. About Oxford, Bobart. Boar's Hill. Frilford. Besilsleigh. 



Tubney. Sunning well. Near Radley. Ferry Hinksey. Cumnor 

 Hurst, &c. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. Near Beedon, W. M. Rogers. Near 



Unwell Wood. Tilehurst. Cold Ash Common. Bucklebury. 

 Bradfield, Hermitage. Oare. Frilsham. 



