Small Holdings and Allotments 



(3) The late crop of September seedlings, germinating in the cooler 

 autumn months, after summer drought. 



The first crop gives the summer ephemerals, as also the larger flowering 

 plants of the hot summer (Chenopods, Polygonums) as strays from a warmer 

 climate. The summer crop repeats a further set of ephemerals (Capsella^ 

 Veronica} ; while the autumn crop develops a third set of ephemerals to 

 continue over the mild winter months, as also giving strong growths endur- 

 ing winter cold to flower in early spring ; many of these being perennials 

 which flower in the succeeding summer (Lamium album, Thistles, Docks). 



A general list of 100 such plants, 1 grouped according to their special 

 origin, indicates what is really the last stage of the weed-flora, as the 

 hardiest survivors maintaining a precarious existence under human assistance 

 and protection. 



i. Pasture Grasses. 



Agrostis alba (stolonifera). Festuca rubra. Poa annua. 



Agrostis vulgaris. Holcus lanatus. Poa pratensis. 



A lopecurus praten sis. Hordeum t>ratense. Poa trivialis. 



Bromus mollis. 

 Dactylis glomerata. 



Festuca rubra. 

 Holcus lanatus. 

 Hordeum pratense. 

 Lolium perenne. 

 Phleum pratense. 



2. Herbaceous perennials of the pastures. 



Achillaea Millefolium* 

 Bellis perennis. 

 Chrysanthemum Leucanthe- 



mum. 



Geranium molle. 

 Leontodon autumnale. 



Leontodon hispidum. 

 Medic a go lupulina. 

 Plant a go lanceolata. 

 Ranunculus acris. 

 Ranunculus repens. 

 Rumex crispus. 



3. Climbers and Trailers from Hedgerows, 

 Solanum Dulcamara. Galium Aparine. 

 Calystegia sepium. 



4. Plants of the Roadsides and Waste. 



Bromus sterilis. Pastinaca sativa. 



Capsella Bur sa-pas fort's. Plantago major. 

 Daucus Car of a. Potentilla anserina. 



Hordeum murinum. Lapsana communis. 



Melilotus officinalis. Potentilla reptans. 



5. Human associates. 



Chenopodium album. 

 Chenopodium urbicum. 

 Chenopodium poly sper mum. 

 Polygonum Persicaria. 

 Polygonum lapathifolium. 

 Polygonum aviculare. 



Senecio vulgaris. 

 Senecio squalidus. 

 Stellaria media. 

 Cardamine hzrsuta. 

 Diplotaxis muralis. 

 Anthriscus sylvestris. 



6. Weeds of arable land. 

 (Voluntary) Wheat. Alopecurus agrestis. 

 Barley. Sonchus asper. 

 Oats. Fumaria officinalis. 

 Sonchus oleraceus. Etiphorbia Peplus. 

 Anthemis Cotula. Euphorbia Helioscopia. 

 Matricaria inodora. Sonchus arvensis. 



7. Casual Aliens of no fixed tenure. 

 Solanum nigrum. Mercurialis annua. 

 Trifolium arvense. Scandix Pecten- Veneris. 



Taraxacum officinale. 

 Trifolium minus. 

 Trifolium pratense. 

 Trifolium repens. 



Nepeta Glechoma. 



Rumex obtusifolius. 

 Sisymbrium officinale. 

 Urtica dioica. 



A triplex hastata. 

 Atriplex patula. 

 Urtica urens. 

 Lamium album. 

 Lamium purpureum. 

 Lamium amplexicaule. 



Veronica Tournefortii. 

 Veronica hederaefolia. 

 Polygonum Convolvulus. 

 Raphanus Raphanistrum. 

 Sinapis arvensis. 

 Papaver Rhoeas. 



Aethusa Cynapium. 

 Chrysanthemum segetum. 



1 The list is not exhaustive, and the sub-sections are somewhat arbitrary ; but it is intended to 

 include the commoner forms found growing in local allotments, and to indicate a method of sub- 

 dividing a mass of types into more convenient ecological groups. 



