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Fields, gardens and waste places ; very common. A. May— August. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. In Gray's Inn garden ; Budd. MS8. Kensington fxardens. Kensing- 

 ton Gore. Victoria Street, Westminster. Isle of Dogs, &c. 



First record : Buddie, about 1710. 8. Icevis laceratus, 'Buddie's Jagged 

 Sowthistle,' is a variety. Figxired in Pet. H. B. Cat. xiv. 10. 



409. S. asper, Hoffm. Bough Sowthistle, 



Cyb.Br.ii. 45. Syme E. B. v. tt. 811, 812. 



Cultivated and waste ground ; very common. A. May — August. 

 In all the districts. 

 VII. Shepherd's Bush. Isle of Dogs. 



First record : Petiver, 1713. Sonchus asper dentatus,Pet. H. B. Cat. xiv. 

 4, is a slight variety. S. subrotundo fol. most, leeviss. spin, ^c, Pluk., 

 Pet. H. B. Cat. xiv. 1 , is the round-leaved form in a young state. 



4tlO. S. arvensis, L. 



S. arborescens, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 45. Curt. F. L. f. 4. 



Cornfields, cultivated ground, and waste places ; rather common. P. 



July — September. 

 I. Harefleld ; Blackst. Spec. 95. Near South Mims. 

 II. Stanwell Moor. Harmondsworth. Teddington. Hampton Court. 



III. Twickenham. 



IV. Kenton ; Pinner Drive ; Melv. 43. Harrow Weald Churchyard. 



Hampstead. 

 V. Apperton. Wyke Green. 

 VI. Edmonton. 



Vn. [Marylebone Fields ; Herb. G. ^- i?.] Near Upper Clapton ; Cherry 

 (y, «.). Isle of Dogs ! ; Newb. 



First record: BlacJcstone, 1737. 



[411. S, palustris, L. 



S. arborescens alter, Ger. em. and S. tricubitalis fol. cuspidato, Mcrr. 



(Ray). Sonchus asper arborescins, C. B. (Budd.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 44 ; iii. 452. Curt. F. L. f. 5 (drawn from a Middlesex 



specimen). 



River sides ; very rare. P. July, August. 

 VII. About Blackwall ; R. Syn. ii. 71. On the banks of the Thames in 

 the Isle of Dogs ; Budd. MSS. and Pet. H. B. Cat. Sparingly in 

 the marshes about Blackwall and Poplar ; Curt. F. L. In the Isle 

 of Dogs, E. Forster ; B. G. 410. Mr. Syme could not find it there 

 in 1852 (see Pht/t. iv. 860). 



