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First record. Sub ipsis denique muris urbis rariores stirpes oculis oc- 
currunt, que tamen cum peregrina sint facie, dubito utrum inter indigenas 
enumerande sint, e.g. Hieractum cerinthoides, Senecionis species, et Cym- 
balaria que late se propagans undequaque prorepit, et tapetis instar circa 
rudera et antiquiores muros sternitur, Sib., preface, viii. Specimen in Herb. 
Sherard. dated 1799. Do. in Hb. Br. Mus. 1805, Ed. Forster. W. Christy, 
Jun., 1832. In Comp. Cyb. Br. Walls, Oxford, Rev. W. T. Bree. Al- 
though not a native it has become naturalized on every wall in and about 
Oxford, Purt. add. i. Plentiful on every wall in and about Oxford. 
Dillenius sent seeds of this to Linnzus from the Oxford Garden, Walk. 
Very plentiful in and about Oxford, where it was first noticed bySir Joseph 
Banks. Dillenius sent seeds to Linneus, but whether he gathered them 
from the Oxford Garden or wall of the town no memorandum exists. It 
is not improbable that the plant was originally naturalized from the 
Garden, being really a native of Sicily, Sm. Eng. Fl. Geo. Don noticed it 
at Oxford in 1810. See spec. in his fasciculus. See also Bab. Man., 
Hooker's St. Flora, Eng. Bot., Baxter, etc., etc. It is still abundant about 
Oxford, not only on old walls, but on waste ground, especially by the 
railway, from whence seeds are carried by trains to various places along 
the line, as to Littlemore, Reading, etc. 
It is described in the Student’s Flora as glabrous, but the young plants 
are thinly covered with shaggy hairs. It is in full bloom in May, but 
specimens in flower may be seen from March to November. The leaves 
vary very much in outline, from subentire to deeply pinnatifid; when 
bruised they are aromatic. In the Brit. Mus. Herb. is a specimen collected 
by W. T. Dyer, var. parviflorus, site of old workhouse, Jericho, 1867. In 
this variety the flower heads are one half the normal size, being half 
instead of one inch across, while the foliage is very slightly smaller than 
usual. The dried flowers have very much the appearance of the rayed form 
of S. vulgaris. Mr. Dyer proposed the name parviflorus for this var. 
It grew sparingly amongst thousands of the normal form. See Rep. of 
Lond. Ex. Club, 1867. 
The specific name squalidus is very inappropriate, the name adopted in 
the Prodromus is much more fitting, S. chrysanthemifolius, Poir. Our 
Oxford plant is referred by De Candolle to the var. lutilobus, De Cand. 
In Anglia circa Oxon. ‘Banks.’ It is very variable. 
* S. crassifolius, W. Nym. 357- 
Denizen. Waste ground in and about Oxford. A. May, June. 
First record, the Author, 1884, and first as English. 
5. Isis. On waste ground at Osney, near Folly Bridge, 1884, near 
Wolvercote brickyard, Mr. Frost, 1885. Between L. N. W. R. and 
G. W: R. Station 1885, Canalside near Hythe Bridge, Riverside 
near Hertford Barge in Christ Church Meadow. 
