COMPOSITE. 147 



V. Wormwood Scrubs ; Britten. 

 VI. About Highgate, abundant ; BlacJcst. Spec. 90. Winchmore Hill 



Wood. 

 VII. South Heath, Hampstead. 



First record: Gerarde, \b^1 . With pale flowers; (III.) On Hounslow 

 Drilling Ground. 



335. ^ S. Columbaria, L. 



Scabiosa minor caitipestris (Park.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 31. Syme E. B. iv. t. 678. 

 Fields and banks ; very rare. P. July, August. 



II, By the towing-path bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge, nearer 

 the former. In a field near Teddington Church, with Campanula 



First certain record: the Authors, 1867. Parkinson says: 'Dry fields 

 about London' {Theat. 486) ; but the above are the only localities in 

 which it has been observed in Middlesex. Probably not really native 

 in either, but brought down by the river from chalky districts. 



COMPOSITJE. 



EUPATORIUM, Linn. 



336. E. cannabinum, L. Hemp Agrimony. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 94. Syme E. B. v. t. 785. 



Sides of streams and ditches, and wet places ; rather rare. P, July — 



September. 

 I. Harefield ! ; BlacJcst. Fasc. 27. Cohie, near Yewsley ! ; Newb. 

 Pinner, a single plant ; Hind. 

 II. Staines and Stanwell Moors, abundant. By Queen's River, Hampton. 



III. Thames bank bet. Twickenham and Eichmond Bridge. By the Cran 



at Hospital Bridge, Duke's River, Isleworth. 



IV. Kingsbury ; Varenne. Hampstead ; Irv. MSB. 

 V. Not far from Grunnersbury ; Newb. 



VI. Bury Street, Edmonton. ' The Alders ' Wood, Whetstone. 

 First record: BlacJcstone, 1737. 



PETASITES, Gaertn. 



337. P. vulgraris, Besf. Butter-bur. 



Petasites, Ger. em. (Blackst.). Tussilago Petasites, L. (Curt.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 107; iii. 4,59. Curt. F. L. f. 2 (drawn from a Middlesex 



plant), and (P. hybrida) Hook. Curt. 4. 

 Sides of streams and ditches ; rare. P. March, April, 

 I. By the river-side near Harefield Mill, abundantly ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 76. 

 IV, Near the lake, Bentley Priory, W, M. H. ; Melv. 47. 



V. Banks of Thames bet. Putney and Hammersmith ; Savage. 

 VI. Banks of Lea, about Waltham Abbey ; side of trench in Water 



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