136 COMPOSITE. 



Wet meadows. A. July, August. 



I. Shelford Common and Hinton ! ; H. Great Wilbraham. 

 West Wratting. Linton. Westley Wood. — 2. Triplow. 

 Newton. Hauxton. Steeple Morden; N. — 3. Gamlingay. 

 Eltisley. Haslingfield. Sawston; Oomberton; Bourn; Hard- 

 wick ; Caxton ; Near Hay ley and Eversden Woods ; N. — 

 4. Waterbeach. Dry Drayton. — 5. Chippenham. Snailwell. 

 Wicken Fen. — 6. Witcham. — 7. Doddington Turf-fen. 



7. C. pratensis Huds. 



Oirsium Anglicwm primum, B. C. 35. Cir. Britannicum 

 Clusii repens, M. M. 32. C. heterophyllus, M. PL 18. Eelh. 

 ed. 1, 306. C. pratensis, Relh. ed. 3, 331. 



Fens and marshy meadows. P. June to August. 



1. Shelford Moor (now drained); H, Hinton Moor; J. M. 

 By the brook near Fulbourn. — 2. Peat-holes, near Triplow. 

 Sawston Fen!; N. — 4. Cottenham and Willingharn Fens; 

 Belh. — 5. Horningsey, Burwell, Bottisham, and Wicken 

 Fens. Anglesey Abbey ; H. — 6. Littleport; Willingharn; Belh. 



This is the Melancholy Thistle of Bay. 



[Carduus palustris mitior, Bardance capitulo swmmo caule 

 singulari, Pluk. Almag. 82. He found it in the Isle of Ely. 

 It was probably C. pratensis.'] 



8. C. acaulis Linn. Ground Thistle. 



B. C. 27. M. PI. 18. Belh. 331. Cir. acaulos flore 

 purpureo, M. M. 32. 



Dry chalky pastures and banks. P. July to Sep- 

 tember. 



Common in the (1) Cambridge, (2) Boyston, (3) Wim- 

 pole, and (4) Cottenham Districts. — 5. Chippenham. Snail- 

 well. Exning. TJpware. Swaffham Bulbeck. Newmarket. — 

 6. Haddenham. — 8. By the river at Wisbech ; A. P. 



