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ACHILLEA, Linn. 



350. A. Ptarmica, L. Sneezewort. 



Ptarmica (Ger., Blackst.). Ptarmica fol. long, serrato, fl. albo, J. B. 



(Blackst. Spec). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 132. Syme E. B. v. t. 7-30. 



Heaths and meadows ; rather common. P. July, August. 

 I. Harefield!; Blackst. Fasc. 82. Pinner; Melv. id. Stanmore Heath. 

 Elstree Eeservoir. 



III. Field behind Harrow Grove ; Melv. 49. Drilling Ground, Hounslow. 



Bet, Twickenham and Worton. About Whitton. 



IV. Hampstead ; Pet. H. B. Cat. North Heath. Pinner Drive ; Melv. 49. 



Bank of Midland Ky., Edgwarebury, abundant. 

 V. Twyford ! ; In a wet field bet. Acton and Turnham Green ! ; Newb. 

 VI. Near Highgate, plentifully; Blackst. Spec. 78. Hadley ; G. Johnson. 

 Colney Hatch ! ; Ntwb. 

 VII. [In the three great fields adjoining to Kentish Town ; Ger. 483.] 

 South Heath, Hampstead. 



First record; Gerarde, 1597 ; also first notice as British. 



351. A. Millefolium, L. Yarrow. 

 Millefolium vulgare album, C. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 133. Syme E. B. v. t. 727. 



Meadows, waste ground, roadsides, &c. ; very common. P. June — 



September. 

 Throughout the county. 

 VII, Occurs in all the parks and in the turf of the squares, as in Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields and Hyde Park. South Heath, Hampstead. Isle of 

 Dogs, Hackney Wick, &c. 



First record: BlacJcstone, 1737. With dark rose-coloured flowers ; (I.) 

 On Harefield Common ; (III.) in a meadow at Twickenham. 



ANTHEMIS, Linn. 



352. *A. arvensls, i.f 



Cyb. Br, ii. 130 ; iii, 462. Syme E. B. v. t. 721. 



Cultivated fields, roadsides, &c. ; very rare, A. June — August. 

 II. Fields about Teddington ; Lond. Fl. 155, 

 III. A single plant by the roadside near Whitton Park. 



First certain record : Irvine, 1838. 



353. A. Cotula, L. 



Cyb. Br. ii, 131 ; iii. 463. Curt. F. L. f, 5 (drawn from a specimen 

 gathered near London). 



t Cotula non foetida, flnre pleno, (VII.) In S. James's field ; Merrett, 30, is, perhaps, a 

 double-flowered variety of this species. 



