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Fields, gardens and waste places ; very common. A. May^August. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. In Gi-ay's Inn garden ; Budd, MSS. Kensington Gardens. Kensing- 

 ton Gore. Victoria Street, Westminster. Isle of Dogs, &c. 



First record : Buddie, about 1710. S. IcBvis laceratus, 'Buddie's Jagged 

 Sowthistle,' is a variety. Figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. xiv. 10. 



ft09. S. asper, Hoffm. Bough Sowthistle, 



Cyb.Br.ii. 45. Syme E. B. v. tt. 811, 812. 



Cultivated and waste ground; very common. A. May— August. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. Shepherd's Bush. Isle of Dogs. 



First record : Petiver, 1713. Sonchus asper dcntatus,Pet. H. B. Cat. xiv. 

 4, is a slight variety. S. subrotundo fol. nost. Iceviss. spin. ^'C, Pluk., 

 Pet. H. B. Cat. xiv. 1, is the round-leaved form in a young state. 



4:10. S. arvensis, L. 



S. arborcscens, Ger. on. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 45. Curt. F. L. f. 4. 



Cornfields, cultivated ground, and waste places ; rather common. P. 



July — September. 

 I. Harefield ; Blackst. Spec. 95. Near South Mims. 

 II. Stanwell Moor. Harmondsvvorth. Tcddington. Hampton Court. 



III. Twickenham. 



IV. Kenton ; Pinner Drive ; Melv. 43. Harrow Weald Churchyard. 



Hampstead. 

 V. Apperton. Wyke Green. 

 VI. Edmonton. 



VII. [Marylebone Fields ; Herb. G. ^ i?.] Near Upper Clapton ; Cherrif 

 {y. s.). Isle of Dogs ! ; Newb. 



First record : Blackstone, 1737. 



[4:11. S. palustris, L. 



S. arboresceois alter, Ger. em. and S. tricubitalis fol. cuspidate, Mtrr. 



(Eay). Sonchus asper arborescens, C. B. (Budd,). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 44 ; iii. 452. Curt. F. L. f. 5 (drawn from a Middlesex 



specimen). 

 Eiver sides ; very rare. P. July, August. 

 VII. About Blackwall ; R. Syn.u. 71. On the banks of the Thames in 

 the Isle of Dogs ; Budd. MSS. and Pet. H. B. Cat. Sparingly in 

 the marshes about Blackwall and Poplar ; Curt. F. L. In the Isle 

 of Dogs, E. Forster ; B. G. 410. Mr. Syme could not find it there 

 in 1852 (see Phyt. iv. 860). 



