COMPOSITE. 171 



Meadows, heaths, and waste ground; rather common. P. August, 



September. 

 I. NearHarefield!; iVcwi. 

 II. Bushey Park ! ; Newb. 



III. Harrow ; Melv. 42. Drilling Grround, Hounslow ! ; Newb. Twicken- 



ham Park. Koadside near Whitton. 



IV. Stanmore ; Varenne. Hampstead Heath ! ; Newb. 

 V. Near Ealing ! ; Newb. 



VI. Hadley ! ; Warren. Colney Hatch. Edmonton. 

 VII. Isle of Dogs ! ; Newb. South Heath, Hampstead. Turf of Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields. 



First record: Petiver, 1713. The variable leaves of this plant afforded 

 opportunity to Petiver to distinguish several forms: Hieraciuni 

 jprcertiorsum laciniatimi, H. fol. acuto minus, and H. fol. obtuso minus ; 

 all found about London. They are figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. t. xii. 



TRAGOPOGON, Linn. 



399. T. pratensis, L. Goaf s-beard. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 33. 



Meadows, waste ground, railway banks, &c. ; rather common. B. May 

 —July. 



Var. agenuinus, Syme. T. pratensis, L. (Bab.). Syme E. B. v. t. 798. 

 II. Bet. Teddington and Strawberry Hill. Eiver-side near the railway 



bridge, Twickenham. 

 V. Near Chiswick Ey. Station. 

 VI. Bank of G-. N. Ey., Colney Hatch. 

 VII. [Banks of moat under Penitentiary, Millbank, 1836; Herb. Young. ] 

 Banks and side of line of Gr. N. Ey., about Copenhagen Fields 

 Station, abundant. 



Var. )8. T. minor, Fries. BuJckes bearde (Turn.). T. luteum (Ger.). 

 T. lut. angustifolium (Park.). T. pratensis, L. (Melv.). Syme E. B. 

 V. t. 799. 



I. Harefield!; Blackst Fasc. 100. 



III. Wood End ; Melv. Al. Hounslow!; Newb. 



IV, Hampstead; Irv. MSS. Football field, Harrow ; Melv.il. Eailway 



bank ; Herb. Harr. Midland Ey. bank near Edgware. 

 V. Greenford; Melv. 41. Brentford; Hcmsley. Twyford ! ; Ealing!; 



near Chiswick ! ; Newb. Hanwell ; Warren. 

 VI. Near Enfield ; Tucker. 



VII. About London ; Turn. Names. Islington ; Ger. 596. Pancras ; 

 Newton MSS. Paddington ; Budd. Herb, and Pet. H B. Cat. xv. 6. 

 Brompton Cemetery ; . Britten. Side of London Canal ; Cherry 

 {v. s.). King's Eoad, Chelsea, abundant. 



