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382. A. minus, SchJcuhr. Lesser Burdock. 



Native ; by roadsides, and in waste and bushy spots. Very 

 common. July to September. 

 c. I. Between Burraton and Notter Bridge, St. Stephens. Tideford. 

 II. Trevol and Thanckes, near Torpoint. St. Johns. Moditonham. 

 Saltash and Calhngton Road, near Botus Fleming. Calloget. 

 Near Callington. 

 D. III. Between Swilly and Ham. By tlie road from the Plymouth and 

 Saltash Road to Bull Point. 

 IV. Near Little Efford. Oreston. Near Elburton. Plym Valley, 



at Plymbridge. 

 V. Above the Yealm estuary, Revelstoke. Above Bigbury Bay, 

 near Lambside. Near Bridgend. With both purple and white 

 flowers at Puslinch Bridge, 1873. Cornwood, 

 VI. Between Ivvbridge and Harford. 

 A Burdock bearing pinkish flowers occurs near Wacker (District i.). 

 It is a peculiar looking plant, but I think must be considered A. minus. 



3.83. A. intermediuni, Lange. Intermediate Burdock. 



Native ; in waste spots, &c. Rare l July to September. 

 0. I. St. Germans Beacon, August, 1875. Between Hessenford and 

 Seaton ; referred to intermedium with some doubt, as except 

 in the size of the anthodes there appears little or nothing by 

 which to distinguish it from A. minus. 

 D. IV. In waste ground by an old limestone quarry near Hay farm- 

 house, not far from Elburton, August, 1872 •.^'■A. intermedium 

 without doubt. The elongate peduncles of the anthodes are, 

 as far as I can see, the only constant marks of distmction be- 

 tween this and eu-minus." Bosivell, in Bot. Ex. Club Rep. 

 1872-74, 27. Near Plymstock. 

 When Arctia specimens are brought together for comparison it is im- 

 portant to have all at about the same stage of development, since the 

 anthodes appear considerably different when in flower to what they look 

 in fruit. A. intermedium is a very unsatisfactory ' species.' 



The old plant-name ' Harlock,' found m Shakspeare's King Lear, and 

 used by Drayton, is supposed by Dr. Prior to belong to the Burdock. 

 (See Pop. Names Brit. Plants ed. 2, 102.) He thinks it more correctly 

 rendered Hardock, which I would question. Although I have never heard 

 ' Harlock ' employed here, it is interesting to find a derivative in use that 

 proves the word to belong to a plant having heads or knobs. When a 

 garment or some textile fabric has become creased or twisted into a lump 

 it is said to be 'got up into a harl.' I believe 'Dock' to have been 

 formerly employed somewhat generally for weeds with large undivided 

 leaves, as we have ' Flappadock,' or 'Flapdock,' as a name for the 



