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fields of corn. Here, when associated with Centaurea Scabiosa and 

 Papaver Rhoeas, the colours of the tliree contrast beautifully with that 

 of the ripening com. 



COMPOSITE. 



SILYBUM, Vaiil. 



373. S. Marianum, Gaertn. Milk Thistle. 



Casual ; in waste spots and in fields. Very rare. June to Sep- 

 tember, 

 c. I. Two small patches in a grass-field above the coast, near Seaton, 

 June, 1869. 

 II. A single plant in a field at Millbrook, in a spot whence earth or 

 manure had apparently been removed, July, 1870. 

 D. III. ]Maristow, 1851 ; Keys, Fl. iii. 75. Eight or nine plants at 

 Knackersknowle, close to where some houses were taken down, 

 1870 ; a few by a footpath there, 1875. 

 IV. Sparingly in a cattle-shed by a meadow, close to Egg Buckland 

 \dllage, 1859 ; soon after it died out. Half-a-dozen young 

 plants, with turnips, in a field at Fui'sdon, Egg Buckland, 

 probably brought with manure or sown with the crop, 1873. 



CARDTJUS, L. 



374. C. tenuiflorus, Curt. Slender-flowered Thistle. 



Native ; m diy waste or sandy spots, about the borders of fields 

 and on hedge-banks, mostly near salt water. Locally common. 

 Part of j\Iay to July. 

 0. I. Port Wrinkle. Seaton. St. Stephens. Below Screasdon Fort. 

 XL Above Wliitsand cliffs. Rame. Between Torpoint and Trevol. 

 D. III. BetvN^een Plymouth and ]Milehouse, and elsewhere by the road to 

 Saltash. Ford Park, Plymouth. Richmond Walk, and else- 

 where about Devonport and Stoke. Beer Ferrei*s. 

 IV. Hoe, and under the Citadel, Plymouth, in which situations the 

 var. j92/c«oce/?^«/«^, Jacq. (C. tenuiflorus., var. elongatus, 

 Duby.), also occurs ; Keys, Fl. iii. 73. Above the coast between 

 Bovisand and Wembury. Cattedown, and on the limestone 

 between the Plym estuary and Plymstock \illage. Crabtree. 

 V. Wembury ; Keys, Fl. ib. Above the coast between Revelstoke 

 Church and Lambside, also near Woi-sewell and Bridgend. 

 Newton Ferrers. 

 VI. Above Bigbury Bay between Kingston and Ringmore. On the 



Kingston side of the Erme estuary. 

 This species is quite submaritime, being unknown in our inland 

 parishes. It springs up soon after the seeds fall, and floAvers the succeed- 



