172 COMPOSITE. 



First record : Turner, 1548 ; also first as a British plant. Var. $ is the 

 common Mkldlesex plant, and when the variety was not stated, we re- 

 ferred the locality to it. Parkinson, Blackstone, and other old writers, 

 distinguish the plants. 



400. •* T. porrifolius, L. Salsify. 



T. jyurptiro-cceruleum Porri folio quod Artiji vidgo, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 34. Syme E. B. v. t. 801. 

 Meadows, waste places, and railway banks. B. June. 

 II. Several hundred plants on the embankment by the railway station at 

 West Drayton ; Cole. 

 III. Several spots in neighbourhood of Greenhill and Roxeth, W. M. H. ; 



Melv. 42. 

 VI. In some meadows near Edmonton, Mr. Hurlock ; Blackst. Spec. 98. 

 Gt. Northern Ry. bank (east side) at Bai-net ; Naylor. 

 VII. Bromley near Bow; Forst. Midd. Waste ground beyond World's 

 End, bet. King's Road and Walham Green, 1830; Pamplin. Banks 

 of a creek near Hammersmith, D. Cooper ; Herb. Young. 



First record: Hurlock, 1746. The specimens we have seen are var. a 

 sativus of Syme E. B, Probably often an outcast from gardens. 



PICRIS, Limi. 



401. P. hieracioides, L. 



Hitracium asperwm, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 35. Syme E. B. v. t. 796. 



Dry fields and hedgebanks ; rare. B. or P. July, August. 

 I. In Harefield chalkpit ; Blackst. Fasc. 4:1. Near Harefield Common. 

 II. Plentiful in a field near Teddington. 

 IV. Hampstead Heath ; Britten. 



First record : Blackstone, 1737. 



HELMINTHIA, Juss. 



402. K. echioides, Gaert. Ox-tongue. 



Rieraciuni echioides capit. cardui benedicti, C. B. P. (Blackst.). Pio is e., 



L. (Curt.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 35. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 



Margins of fields, waste places, and roadsides; rather common. A. or 



B. July — September. 

 I. Harefield, frequent; Blackst. Fasc. 41. Wood Hall, Pinner. 



III. Green Hill ; Melv. 42. 



IV. Kenton ; Melv. 42. Edgware. Bet, Sudbury Station and Apperton. 

 V. Twyford !; near Shepherd's Bush ! ; N(tvb. Horsington Hill. Abun- 

 dant on railway bank bet. Acton and AVillesden Junction. 



VI. Bet. Finchley Common and the Church ; Herb. Hardw. Edmonton. 



