172 composite;. 



First record : Turner, 1548 ; also first as a British plant. Var. $ is the 

 common Mkldlesex plant, and when the variety was not stated, we re- 

 ferred the locality to it. Parkinson, Blackstone, and other old writers, 

 distinguish the plants. 



400. * T. porrifolius, L. Salsify. 



T. 2na-puro-C(eruleum Porri folio quod Artifi milgo, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 34. Syme E. B. v. t. 801. 



Meadows, waste places, and railway banks. B. June. 



II. Several hundred plants on the embankment by the railway station at 



West Drayton ; Cole. 

 III. Several spots in neighbourhood of Greenhill and Eoxeth, W. M. H. ; 



Melv. 42. 

 VI. In some meadows near Edmonton, Mr. Hurloek ; Blackst. Spec. 98. 

 Gt. Northern Ey. bank (east side) at Barnet ; Naylor. 

 yil. Bromley near Bow ; Forst. Midd. Waste ground beyond World's 

 End, bet. King's Road and Walham Green, 1830; Pamplin. Banks 

 of a creek near Hajnmersmith, D. Cooper ; Herb. Young. 



First record: HurtocJc, 1746. The specimens we have seen are var. a 

 sativus of Si/me E. B, Probably often an outcast from gardens. 



PICBIS, Linn. 



&01. P. bleradoides, L. 



Hicracium asperum, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 35. Syme E. B. v. t. 796. 



Dry fields and hedgebanks ; rare. B. or P. July, August. 

 I. In Harefield chalkpit ; Blackst. Fasc. 41. Near Harefleld Common. 

 II. Plentiful in a field near Teddington. 

 IV. Hampstead Heath ; Britten. 



First record: Blackstone, 11 ZT . 



HELMINTHIA, Juss. 



a02. H. ecbloides, Gaert. Ox-tongue. 



Hieracium echioides capit. cardui benedicti, C. B. P. (Blackst.). Picris e., 



L. (Curt.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 35. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 



Margins of fields, waste places, and roadsides; rather common. A. or 



B. July — September. 

 I. Harefield, frequent ; Blackst.Fasc.il. Wood Hall, Pinner. 



III. Green Hill ; Melv. 42. 



IV. Kenton ; Melv. 42. Edgware. Bet. Sudbury Station and Apperton. 



, V. Twyford !; near Shepherd's Bush! ; Niwb. Horsington Hill. Abun- 

 dant on railway bank bet. Acton and Willesden Junction. 

 VI. Bet. Finchley Common and the Church ; Herb. Hardw. Edmonton. 



