COMPOSITE. 165 



II. Isolated plants by roadsides near Staines, Sunbiiry, Teddington, 

 Strawberry Hill. 



III. Waste ground by Twickenham Ry. Station. 



IV. Stanmore ; Vannne. Hampstead ; Irv. MSS. 



VI. By the Lea ; R. C. Fowles {v. s.). Starchness, Edmonton. 

 VII. Chelsea College, J. Britten ; BoL Chron. 58. South Heath, Hamp- 

 stead. Cremorne. Kensington Gore, by the roadside. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



380. C. Scablosa, L. Great Knapweed. Matfellon. 



Jacea major, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 90. Syme E. B. v. t. 708. 



Coi'nfields and borders of pastures ; rare. P. July — September. 

 I, Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 45. Abundant in cornfields. 

 II. Stanwell Moor. Staines. Teddington. Tangley Park, 

 IV. Hampstead ; Irv. MSS. 

 First record : Blackstone, 1737. Partial to dry soils, especially chalk. . 



[381. C. Calcitrapa, Z. Star-Thistle. 



Carduus stdlaris vulgaris (Park.). C. stellatus, Ger. (Merr., Pet., 



Blackst. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 91 ; iii. 457. Syme E.B. v. t. 711. 

 Waste ground. A. or B. July — September. 

 I. Harefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 15. 

 VII. In the fields about London in many places, as at Mile End Green ; in 

 Finsbury fields beyond the mills ; Park. Theat. 990. Bet. London and 

 Mile End, plentifully ; Merrett, 21 . In some barren fields near Whi te- 

 chapel; Pet. Midd. Bethnal Green, Mr. Jones; With. ed. vii. iii. 961. 

 First record: Parkinson, 1640; last about 1830. May be refound.] 



ONOPORDTJBT, Linn. 



382. O. Acanthium, L. Cotton Thistle. White Thistle. 



Acantha leuke (Turner). Acanthium (Pet.). Carduus tjmentosus, Acan- 



thium diet, vulgaris, R. Syn. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 86 ; iii. 456. Cur^. F. L. f. 6. 

 Waste places ; rare. B. August, September. 

 I. Harefield; Blackst. Fasc. 14. 

 II. By the side of the Colne a little east of Colnbrook; James Craig {v. s.). 



Feltham Green, a single plant. 

 IV. Hampstead; Irv. MSS. 

 V. Sion; Ticrn. ii. 146. 



VI. Bank of G. N. Ry. near Colney Hatch, one plant. 

 VII. [Most ditchbanks about town, very common ; Herb. Pet.] [Gloucester 

 Place, Kentish Town, 1844 ; Herh. Hardw.] 

 First record : Turner, 1562 ; also first as British. Often of garden origin. 



