148 COMPOSITE. 



Lane, Edmonton; lane bet. Fortis Green and Homsey, 1864, the 

 female plant (P. hybrida, L.) ; Savage. 

 VII. [About Chelsea Waterworks; Blackst. Spec. 71.] [Side of Thames 

 bet. Westminster Bridge and Chelsea ; Curt. F. i.] 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. Eemarkably scarce in this county. 



338. *P. fragrans, Tresl. Nardosmia fragrans, ^eich. (Syme). 



Winter Heliotrope. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 109. Syme E. B. iv. t. 781. 

 Hedgebanks and shady places ; rare. P. January — March. 

 II, West Drayton ! ; Newb. 



VI. In a field near the Enfield foot-path, Bury Street, Edmonton. 

 VII. On the outside of a garden wall in Bayswater, and in a meadow ; 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. viti. 389. On rubbish near 'The Warrington,' 

 Kilburn, 1868!; Warren. 

 Completely naturalised in ... . Middlesex; Syme E. B. v. 117. 

 First record : 1835. Much cultivated in gardens, and easily establishing 

 itself. 



TUSSILAGO, Unn. 



339. T. rarfara, L. Coltsfoot. 

 Tussilago, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 109. Curt. F. L. f. 2. 



Koadsides, waste ground, and railway banks ; very common. P. March, 



April. 

 Generally distributed through the whole county. 

 VII. Abundant about London. Near Pancras, plentifully ; Blackst. MSS. 

 West End Lane, Kilburn. Near Chelsea Hospital. By Buckingham 

 Palace. Downing Street. Thames Embankment. Gordon Square. 

 St. Paul's Churchyard. Seven Sisters Eoad. I. of Dogs, &c. 



First record: Blackstone, 1737. Usually the first plant to appear on 

 railway banks, newly-made land, heaps of rubbish, and similar places. 



ASTEE, Linn. 

 3ft0. A. Tripolium, L. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 112. Syme E. B. v. t. 776. 



Sides of ditches of brackish water ; very rare. P. August, September. 



VII. Three or four feeble plants by a ditch in the Isle of Dogs I, 1866 ; 



Newh. 



The only locality. Perhaps not uncommon in the I. of Dogs before that 



district whs built over and otherwise altered. With Scirpus marl- 



timus,:&amolus VaUrandi, Sclerochloa distans, and a few other plants 



of whi^ but a few specimens have been gathered in late years, it 



constitutes all that remains of the semi-maritime vegetation which 



