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senting intermediate characters between this species and nutans, with 

 both of which they were growmg. I have since found a thistle with 

 similar features in an old limest<3lie quarry in the same neighbourhood. 

 (See Bot. Ex. Club. Rep. 1872-74, 26.) 



377. C. lanceolatus, L. Spear Thistle. 



Native ; in waste spots, pastures, on banks, and in recently- 

 cleared woods. Very common. July to September. Area 

 general. 

 May be seen close to the town of Plymouth, and on commons about 

 Dartmoor, as well as in pastures by the coast. A plant with flowers of 

 light rose colour below Kit Hill, August, 1879. 



378. C. palustris, L. Marsh Thistle. 



Native ; on damp banks, in meadows, marshes, and bogs. Very 

 common. June to September. Area general. 

 Extends over both the open and enclosed country. A variety with 

 white flowers is rather frequent, and has been seen in the six Districts, 

 in the open as well as the enclosed tracts. When the flowers are coloured 

 the tmt varies from very light to dark dull purple, though this last is tlie 

 ordmary colour. 



379. C. arvensis, Curt. Creeping Plume Thistle. 



Native ; in pastures, waste spots, on hedge-banks, &c. Very 

 common. July to September. Area general. 

 This extends from the coast to Dartmoor. Seen with white flowers 

 near Cawsand ; at Rame (District ii.) ; and with whitish near Egg 

 Buckland (iv.), and at Wembury (v.), &c. 



Hybrid Nutanti-arvensis ? Roadside between Gutsford and Modbury, 

 September, 1876. A single plant only. This I sent to Dr. Bos well with 

 the following remarks : " Of very peculiar appearance when fresh. Notice 

 the shortly- winged stem ; the peculiar florets and anthodes, the latter 

 drooping from theu' weight ; and the biennial -looking root." Dr. 

 Boswell remarked on it : "A very puzzling plant, evidently a hybrid, of 

 which one of the parents is Carduus arveivsis ; the other some thistle 

 with a wmged stem and larger heads, quite possibly C. nutans. 

 If it be C. nutanti-crispiis, it is remarkable that the pappus should 

 retain the very long secondary hairs, which are as long as, though fewer 

 in number than, in C. arvejisis." {Bot. Ex. Club Bep. 1876, 21.) 



C. eriophorus, L. At the Devil's Point, Stonehouse. T. W. Gissing 

 in Phyt. i. N. S. 28. Error probably. Not recorded thence by any one 

 else, although a spot often visited by botanists. Mr. Gissing was there in 

 June, 1855. Keys speaks of it as ' frequent' in Devon, which it certainly 

 is not. 



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