218 COMPOSIT.E. 



With reference to tlie orig-in of this species at Slmiigh Bridge, it is 

 significant that on the bank where it occurs I found Luzula albkla, DC, 

 in May, 1874, doubtless introduced with grass seeds. 



C. nicceensis, Balb. Ahen or Casual. Sown with seeds of grasses and 

 clovers. Abundant in a field at Penters Cross (District i.), 1878 ; field at 

 Buckland Monachorum, 1874 ; in one between Weston Mills and St. 

 Budeaux (iii)., 1878 ; in another at Leigham, Egg Buckland, 1875 ; two 

 plants in a grass-field at Goosewell, Egg Buckland (iv.), 1877. 



HIERACIUM, L. 



441. H. Pilosella, L. Mouse-ear Hawhweed. 



Native ; on dry or rocky banks, in barren pastures, and on com- 

 mons. Yery common. May to July, or later. Area general. 

 Grows close to Plymouth, and at Devonport I have noticed it on the 

 Dockyard wall near St. JMary's Church. It extends from the coast to 

 Dartmoor. The limestone rubble heap, the poor peaty pasture, and the 

 loamy common, all suit this widely-diffused plant. One of the most 

 striking of the yellow-flowered ComposiUe^ from the delicate lemon-yellow 

 of the florets, with reddish-purple markings on the back of the exterior 

 ones. 



442. H. vulg-atum, Fries. Wood Eawkweed. 



Denizen or Native ; on rocky cuttings by a line of railway. Very 

 rare. June, July. 

 D. IV. On the rocky sides of two banks or ' cuttings ' by the Tavistock 

 railway line between Marsh Mills and Plymbridge ; in con- 

 siderable quantity, but very local. 

 As the line of railway by which this occurs was made at no distant 

 period, and the banks were formed by cutting through a mass of slaty 

 rock, it seems probable that the plant is an introduction. It is, hoAvever, 

 said to occur on Dartmoor beyond the area, where of course it would be 

 indigenous. I suspect the traffic on the railway has in some way or other 

 been the means of bringing it into the Plym Valley. However, in 

 Hooker's British Flora, ed. 3, 351, under H. sylvaticum, Sm., is the 

 following : " Mr. Banks finds it near Plymouth with quite entire foliage." 

 I suspect Banks's plant was a form or variety of H. umhdlatum. 



443. H. maculatum, 8m. Spotted Hawhweed. 



Alien ; established on shady banks in one locality. Very rare. 

 June to August, or later. 

 D. III. Banks under trees at Manadon ; Phyt. v. N.S. 370. In plenty 

 on some shady banks very near the old garden of JNIanadon 

 House, Pennycross. Quite established. 



