I. FLOWEEING PLANTS. 11 



CARDUUS ARVENSIS. Waste places, fields, commons, roadsides everywhere, 

 frequent, 7. 



CARDUUS CRISPUS. In similar situations with the preceding, and almost 

 as frequent, 6-8. 



CARDUUS ERIOPHORUS. Waste ground in the chalk districts, rare, 7-8. 

 Stone chalk-pit near Greenhithe (? olim ; often mistaken for C. lan- 

 ceolatus, ' Cybele Britannica ') ; near White Boding. 



CARDUUS LANCEOLATUS. Pastures, roadsides, and waste places, common, 

 7-8. 



Carduus Marianum. See Silybum. 



CARDUUS NUTANS. Waste ground in dry stone and chalky soil, common 

 in the chalk districts, 7. Boxhill ;* Banstead Downs ;* Tring ; in fields 

 below Albury Nowers Wood, abundant occasionally with white flowers ;* 

 Mickleham, about Northfleet and Purfleet ;* fields near Dartford 

 towards Daren t Wood.* 



CARDUUS TENUIFLORUS. Waste sandy ground and in chalky fields, not 

 common. Cornfield on Reigate Hill ;* and elsewhere occasionally in the 

 chalk district ; Purfleet ; Tilbury ; Boxmoor, near. 



CARDUUS PRATENSIS. Wet pastures and on damp heaths and moors ; not 

 uncommon, 68. Dittou Common, plenty ;* Esher Common ;* Putney 

 Heath ;* Wimbledon Common ;* Rickmansworth Common Moor ; about 

 Dorking : Croydon ; Epping Forest. 



CARDUUS PALUSTRIS. Moist meadows and shady places ; frequent, 7. 

 (Plenty lower part of Hampstead Heath ;* Wimbledon Common and 

 Coombe Wood.*) 



CARDUUS FORSTERI (hybrid) Surrey ; (? olim ; an obscurity ; Cybele Brit.) 



CAREX ACUTA. Marshy meadows and wet pastures; 5-6, by the Lea; pas- 

 ture by the Thames near Putney * (E. de C.) ; pond in Ball's Wood ; Hod- 

 desdon marsh ; by the Thames about Ditton and Sunbury ; by the Mole 

 near Esher mills and S. of Woodhatch ; Reigate ; banks of the Roding 

 towards Loughton * (E. de C.) ; ditches between Hertford and Ware. 



CAREX AMPULLACEA. Bogs on peaty commons and borders of ponds in 

 similar localities. Felbridge ; Reigate Heath ;* Earlswood Common ; 

 Witley Lagg ;* Hatfield Forest ; banks of the Roding, not common, 5-6. 



CAREX ARENARIA. Sandy sea-shores, 5-6 (rarely inland). On sandy 

 shore near Southend ; sandy commons about Farnham ! and Frensham !* 



CAREX AXILLARIS. Marshes, rare. The Ledds near Esher Common ; 

 Merstham pools (?). 



CAREX BCENNINGHAUSENIANA. Swampy woods, very rare, 6. In a 

 willow bed near Bourne mill, Farnham, ('Botanical Gazette'). Ball's 

 Wood near Hertford, in ponds there towards S.W. corner of Hertford 

 Heath j 1 near Reigate. 



CAREX BINERVIS. Dry heaths and moors, frequent. Wimbledon Common ;* 

 Esher Common;* abundant on the Bucks heaths; Hertford Heath; Black- 

 fan Wood, Bayford ; Harrow Weald Common ; Whitemoor Common ;* 

 Pirbright Common ;* Stoke Common ;* Farnham Common by Burnham 

 Beeches;* Gerard's Cross Common;* 6, Epping Forest ; Warley Common. 

 CAREX C^ESPITOSA. See C. STRICTA. 



i Doubtful: see Report for 1874, p. 88 of Botanical Locality ^Record Club. An 

 unsatisfactory species ; Comp. Cybele. 



