164 COMPOSITE. 



VII. [In great abundance in the -wood adjoining to Islington ; Ger. 577.] 

 [Marylebone Fields, 1815 ; Hirh. G. ^- i?.] Caen AVood ; Irv. MSS. 



Pirst record : Gerarde, 1597. The white-flowered plant was noticed at 

 Hampstead by Johnson (£Wc.) and Parkinson (Theat. 476); by Mr. 

 Irvine at BolHce Hill, Hendon ; and by the Authors at Kingsbury. 



CENTAUREA, Linn. 



377. * C. Tacea, L. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 88 ; iii. 456. Syme E. B. v. t. 705. 



Meadows ; rery rare. P. August. 

 III. In considerable plenty in a grassy meadow close to the railway station 

 at Twickenham. 

 V. A stray plant or two at* Acton, doubtless introduced ; Newb. 



First record: Newbould, about 1862. The Twickenham plant is 

 thoroughly established, and has the appearance of a native. It is, 

 however, most likely the remains of a garden, a supposition suggested 

 by the presence of horse-radish in the same field, and a garden rose 

 and periwinkles in a neighbouring hedge. Two forms grow together 

 here, the vars. a genuina and ;8 vtdgaris of Koch's Synopsis Fl. Germ. 

 (the former is C. oucidligera, Eeieh.). According to Syme E. B. v. 

 31, the Acton plant seems to belong to the continental form C. amara, 

 D C. ( = C. serotina, Boreau). 



378. C. ni^a, L. Black Knapweed. 

 Jacea nigra, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 89. Syme E. B. v. t. 706. 



Fields, roadsides, and waste ground ; very common. P. August, Sep- 

 tember. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. Maiden Lane, St. Pancras, 1841; Herb. Hardw. Primrose Hill; 

 Morris {v. s.). Lower Heath, Hampstead. South Kensington. 

 Hackney Wick. Several patches in the turf of Lincoln's Inn 

 Fields, 1869. 

 First record: Blaclcstone, 1737. The 'rayed variety' is recorded from 

 (III.) field behind the Grove, Harrow ; Nelv. 46. Another form with 

 long florets and small involueral scales, has been noticed sparingly 

 (VII.) near the Edgware Eoad Ey. Station (N. London), and elsewhere ; 

 Newb. We have not seen the var. decipiens, Bab., in Middlesex. 



379. C. Cyanus, L. Bluebottle. 



Cyanus vulgaris, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 89 ; iii. 457. Syme E. B. v. t. 709. 



Waste ground and cornfields ; rather rare. A. or B. July — September. 

 I. Harefield; Blackst. Fasc. 21. Near Pinner chalk-pita, W. M. H. ; 

 Melv. 46. 



