COMPOSITE. 171 



Meadows, heaths, and waste ground; rather common. P. August, 



September. 

 I. Near Harefield ! ; Ntwb. 

 II. Bushey Park ! ; Ncwb. 



III. Harrow; Meh.^'2. Drilling Ground, Hounslow! ; Newh. Twicken- 



ham Park. Eoadside near Whitton. 



IV. Stanmore ; Varemie. Hampstead Heath ! ; Newb. 

 v. Ne^ Ealing ! ; Newb. 



VI. Hadley ! ; Warren. Colney Hatch. Edmonton. 

 VII. Isle of Dogs ! ; Newb. South Heath, Hampstead. Turf of Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields. 



First record: Petiver, 1713. The variable leaves of this plant afforded 

 opportunity to Petiver to distinguish several forms : Hieradim 

 pramorsum laciiiiatum, H.fol. acuta nmvus, and H. fol. obtuso minus ; 

 all found about London. They are figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. t. xii. 



TRAGOPOGON, Linn. 



399. T. pratensis, L. Goat' s-beard, 



Cyb. Br. ii. 33. 



Meadows, waste ground, railway banks, &c. ; rather common. B. May 

 —July. 



Var. a ffenuinus, Syme. T. pratensis, L. (Bah.). Syme E. B. v. t. 798. 

 II. Bet. Teddington and Strawberry Hill. Eiver-side near the railway 



bridge, Twickenham. 

 V. Near Chiswick Ey. Station. 

 VI. Bank of G. N. Ey., Colney Hatch. 

 VII. [Banks of moat under Penitentiary, Millbank, 1836 ; Herb. Younff.l 

 Banks and side of line of G. N. Ey., about Copenhagen Fields 

 Station, abundant. . 



Var. /3. T. minor, Fries. BiiJcJces bearde (Turn.). T. luteum (Ger.). 

 T. lut. angustifoliu7n (Park.). T. pratensis, L. (Melv.). Syme E. B. 

 V. t. 799. 



I. Harefield ! ; Blaekst. Fasc. 100. 



III. Wood End; Melv. 41. Hounslow!; Newb. 



IV. Hampstead; Irv. MSS. Football field, Harrow ; Melv.il. Eailway 



bank ; Herb. Harr. Midland Ey. bank near Edgware. 

 V. Greenford ; Melv. 41. Brentford; Hnnsley. Twyford!; Failing!; 



near Chiswick ! ; Newb. Hanwell ; Warren. 

 VL Near Enfield; Tuclier. 

 VII. About London ; Turn. Names. Islington ; Ger. 596. Pancras ; 



Newton MSS. Paddington ; Budd. Herb, and Pet. H. B. Cat. xv. 6. 



Brompton Cemetery ; Britten. Side of London Canal ; Cherry 



{v. s.). King's Eoad, Chelsea, abundant. 



