124 CONTRIBUTIONS TO A FLORA OF PORTLAND. 



C. solstitialis, L. Yellow Star-Thistle. Alien or Colonist. 

 II. Very rare. Several plants in lucerne field above 

 West Cliff ; Rev. H. E. Fox in Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, p. 154. 

 Cichorium Intybus, L. Wild Succory. Native. II. Scarce 

 and thinly distributed. West Cliff ; Rev. H. E. Fox in 

 Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, p. 166. Cornfields Wakeham and 

 Southwell. 



Picris hieracioides, L. Hawkweed Ox-tongue. Native. II. Very 



com. Throughout East Weare. Banks and cult. 



land (east side) to within a mile of the Bill. About West 



Cliff, sparingly. 



P. echioides, L. ( Helminthia echioides, Gaert.). Ox-tongue. 



Native. I. II. Very com. 



Crepis taraxacifolia, Thuill. Small Rough Hawk's-beard. 



Colonist. II. " Portland ; " Druce in Journ. Bot. 1908, 



p. 387. First record. Amongst grass and in waste 



places about Grove District, locally plentiful 1911. F ! 



Obs. Of recent introduction. Will doubtless spread 



in Portland as it has done elsewhere. 



Hieracium platyphyllum, Ley. Broad-leaved Hawkweed. 

 Native. II. Local, on rocks and quarry debris, East 

 Weare from Durdle Pier to Churchope, plentiful. Sparingly 

 in West Weare. 



Obs. This very rare plant (doubtless the H. murorum 

 of Pulteney), was found in 1879 by the late Sir W. C. 

 Medlycott, in East Weare ; new record for Dor. ; 

 (17 Journ. Bot. 342) ; found by the Author in West 

 Weare in 1885. " A curious extension of area for 

 the species, which is known from West Yorkshire, 

 Brecon, Monmouth, Caermarthen, Glamorgan, and 

 Hereford Counties ; " Revd. H. J. Riddelsdell. 

 " Phyllaries and branching of panicle just character- 

 istic ; " Revd. A. Ley. " The Portland plant seems 

 rightly referred to H. platyphyllum, from which it 

 differs very slightly and in characters that may be 

 due to climate and situation ; " Rev. E. F. Linton. 

 Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1907, p. 298. 



