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CEUCIFER^:. 



Hedgebanks, fields, and waste places ; rather common. B. June — August. 



Among the crops, Harefield; Blackst. Fasc. 98. Bet. Harefield and 



Ruislip. Bet. Pinner Ey. Station and Harrow Weald Common. Old 



chalk-pit, Harefield ! ; Cole. 



IV. Hamputead ; Irv. M8S. Pinner Drive ; Meltrill, 9. 



V. Sion ; Turn. Names. Gunnerisbury Lane, Ealing ; Curt. F. L. Near 



Apperton ! ; Newb. 

 YI. Near Enfield. By the path from Hornsey unto Waltham Cross ; 

 Ger. 206.* 

 VII. [In London it groweth in Maister Eiehe's garden and in Maister 

 Morgannne's also; Turn. ii. 152. Perhaps cultivated there.] 

 First record : Turner, 1548 ; the first notice as British. 



67. Ii. Smitbii, Hook. 



Cyb. Br. i. 124 ; Comp. 95. Syme E. B. i. t. 157. 

 Hedgebanks ; rare. P. June— August. 



II. Eoad bet. Staines and Hampton. Near Charlton, in plenty. 

 III. Near Hounslow, on the Hanworth Eoad, and on the same road near 

 Hanworth. 

 First record: the Authors, 1866. Appears to be confined to the 

 sandy S.W. of the county. 



L. sativum, L. Garden Cress. Cyb. Br. iii. 317. Syme E. B. i. t. 165. 

 II. Eoad bet. Teddington and Twickenham. IV. Harrow Weald. 

 V. Apperton ; Herb. Harr. VII. Parson's Green ; Britten. Back of 

 Adelaide Eoad. Extensively grown in kitchen gardens, whence it is 

 cast out when in seed, and so easily gets to roadsides and waste ground. 



68. * X, ruderale, Z. 



Cyb. Br. i. 125 ; Comp. 95. Syme E. B. i. t 154. 



Waste ground ; rare, A. June — September. 

 II. In some quantity bet. the Ey. station and Grand Junction Canal at 



West Drayton ! ; Newb. 

 III. Southall ; Br. Cohbold, who showed specimens at the Linn. Society's 

 Meeting, June 6th, 1867. 

 V. [A few plants on Turnham Green, about 1860 ;] in some abundance 

 by the canal at Apperton ! ; Newb. 

 VII. Eubbish near Highgate Archway; Irv. MSS. and Jewitt {v.s.). 

 Brickfield by Sir G. Duckett's Canal ; Cherry {v. s.). Site of Inter- 

 national Exhibition at S. Kensington. 

 First record : Irvine, about 1830. Probably not native in Middlesex. 

 Four of the above stations are by the course of the canal which crosses 

 the county, and to such places the seeds might be easily conveyed with 

 merchandise. In the other three localities the plant is an evident 

 introduction. 



• This locality may perhaps refer to Thlaspi Discoridis, Ger. = Thlaspi arvente, L. 



