COMPOSITE. Ill 



to germination, until eventually they become exposed to 

 air and sunligbt. We certainly think it highly improb- 

 able that this Tragopogon has been re-introduced at the 

 very spot where it originally grew, especially as it has 

 not been found anywhere else in the Bristol district. 



PICRIS, Z. 



479. P. liieracioides, L. 



Native; on dry rocky banks on limestone, locally common. 

 G. St. Vincent's Rocks, and slopes under the Downs. 



Kingsweston. 

 S. Buckland Dinham. Plentiful about the Cheddar 



Cliffs. Clevedon. Wells. Whitchurch. Yatton. 



vn.— IX. 



HELMINTHIA, Juss. 



480. H. echioides, Gaen. Ox-tongue. 



Native ; in waste places in the lowlands, chiefly in sub- 

 maritime situations. 



G. Bank of Avon below Bristol. Conham. Syston. 

 Abundant by the Severn near Berkeley. Shirehamptou. 



S. Clevedon. Plentiful about Portbury, Portishead, and 

 Weston-super-Mare. Highbridge. South Brent. Whit- 

 church. Yatton. VII.— IX. 



LACTUOA, L. 



(L. saligna, L. A single specimen at Weston-super-Mare, 

 1868. Dr. H. O. Stephens.) 



481. L. virosa, L. Acrid Lettuce. 



" Pathway leading to Giant's Hole, St. Vincent's Fiocks." 

 Su-ete, Fl. 44. " I have gathered this plant in the path 

 leading to the Giant's Hole, St. Vincent's Rocks ; but 

 the station has long since been destroyed. I have not 

 seen it since the summer of 1S53." Mr. T. B. Flower, 

 Feb. 1883. 



