composite:. 167 



386. C. lanceolatas, L. Spear Thistle. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 78. Syme E. B. v. t. 686. 



Waste places, fields, and roadsides ; very common. A. or B. July — 



September. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. Kensington Gardens, 1868 ; Warren, Green Park. Hyde Park, 

 Grosvenor Square. * Russell Square. Victoria Street, Westminster, 

 and other places. 

 First record : Merrett, 1666. Merrett {Pin. 21) noticed a variety, C. lan- 

 ceatuSyflore et capite minoribiis [on the ditch sides beyond St. James's]. 



387. C. arvensis, Curt. Common Creeping Thistle. 



C. ceanothos sive viarum repens (Park.). Cnicus arv., Hoffm. (Melvill). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 80. Curt. F. L. f. 6. 



Fields, gardens, and waste ground ; very common. P. July — September. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. Very common in waste places. On Kentish Town Green, abundantly ; 



Park. Theat.95S. Kensington Gardens. Eegent's Park. Green Park. 



Gordon Square. Gmldford Street. Hackney Wick. I. of Dogs, &c. 



Var. )8 setosus. Syme E. B. v. t. 694. 

 VII. Site of Exhibition of 1862 in some plenty. Plants with very nearly 

 the leaves of setosus were also noticed (III.) by the roadside bet. 

 Hounslow and Hanworth. 

 First record: Parkinson, 1640. 



388. C. palustris, L. 



Cnicus pal. Willd. (Melvill). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 79 ; iii. 455. Curt. F. L. f. 6. 



Wet meadows, bogs and ditches ; very common. A. or B. July — Sept. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. South Heath, Hampstead. 

 First record: Petiver, 1713. 



389. C. pratensis, Huds. 



Cirsium anglicum and C. montanum anglicum (Johns., Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 82 ; iii. 455. Syme E. B. v. t. 690. 

 Wet heaths and meadows ; very rare. P. June — August. 

 I. [Stanmore Heath; Fl. Herts Siipp. 12.1 Ruislip; Hind. Eastcott ; 

 Farrar. 

 III. [On Hounslow Heath near the end of Tuddington ( = Teddington) town, 



sparingly; Blackst. Spec. 14.] 

 IV. [Hampstead Heath ; Johns. Enmn.] 

 VII. [In a meadow on this side Highgate ; Johns. Ger. 1184.] 



First record: Johnson, 1632; also the first notice as a British plant. 

 We have not noticed this species in Middlesex. 



