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no doubt originally covered the marshy shores of the Thames, as far 

 up as the influence of the tide extended. 



A. Salignus, Willd. II. Side of Thames bet. Strawberry Hill and Ted- 

 dington, 1867. An exotic garden species.f 



EKIGERON, imw. 



E. acris, L. Conyza ccerulea acris, Ger. (Merrett). Cyb. Br. ii. 110; iii. 

 459, Curt. F. L. f. 1. VII. (On Parson's Green, on the ditchbanks, 

 plentifully ; Merrett, 29.) A few plants on waste ground, west of 

 Edgware Eoad Station of North London Railway, 1866 or 1867; 

 Warren. Site of Exhibition of 1862, South Kensington. We have 

 seen the plant nowhere native in the county ; Merrett may have 

 mistaken small plants of 341 E. canadensis for this at Parson's 

 G-reen. The S. Kensington plant is a large form with a white pappus 

 {E. corymbosus, Wallr. ?). 



341. ^ E. canadensis, L. 



Conyza annua acris alba LinaricB fol. Boccon (Ray, Budd., Pet.), C. 



canadensis ann. alb. ^t. (R. Syn. iii.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. Ill, Syme E. B. v. t. 773. 



Waste and cultivated ground ; rather rare. A. July — September. 

 II. Hampton. In a lane near Hampton Court, F. Forster ; Herb. Mus. 

 Brit, and B. G. 410. Towing-path bet. Hampton Court and King- 

 ston Bridge ; Bloxam. 

 IIL About Twickenham, abundant. 

 V. Railway bank at Kew Bridge Station, abundant. About Turnham 

 Green. 

 VII. Frequently about London, but certainly not native, Dr. Tancred 

 Robinson ; E. Syn. \. 49, Pet. Midd., Budd. MSS., &c. [Tothill 

 Fields, 1830 ; Herb. Hardw.] Chelsea, common!; Irv. H. B. P. 525. 

 Roads about Hackney Downs; Grugeon {v. s.). Sandy End, and 

 elsewhere about Fulham, Parson's Green. Site of Exhibition, 

 S. Kensington, in great quantity. Victoria Street, Westminster. 

 Green Park. By Buckingham Palace. Thames Embankment. 



First record: Tancred Robinson, 1690. A North American species. 

 Thoroughly naturalised, and indeed one of the commonest weeds in 

 and about London, especially in the dry sandy western suburbs, and 

 extending up the Thames valley to Hampton. An American writer 

 states, but without giving any reference or additional particulars, that 

 this plant ' sprang up in Europe 200 years ago from a seed which 

 dropped out of the stuffed skin of a bird.' Marsh, Man and Mature, 68. 



t ? A. Amelias, L. A. atticus, and A. Italorum, upon Hampstead Heath; Qer. 393. 

 These ... are no other than two Hieracia ; Johns. Qer. 485. 



