172 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
2. Ouse. Mixbury. 
3. Swere. Bretch, Bees. Castle Close Banbury, A. Fr. On a wall 
in the ‘ Reindeer,’ A. Fr., quite a casual. 
4, Ray. Between Parks and Summertown, 1831, Bx. Stow Wood. 
6. Thame. Hedgebank on Bullingdon Green near Magd. Coll. Copse, 
1831, Cheney Lane, Bx. Bullingdon, H. EH. Garnsey. Thame, 
Hb. Bz., 1844. Shotover Hill, leaves more green than type, 1884, 
Bullingdon Quarries. 
Berks. Hurley, Inkpen, Isley, Brit. Frilford. Bucks, casual. 
Northants. Warwick, alien or denizen. 
SILYBUM. G. 
* §. Marianum, @. Milk Thistle. 
Comp. Cyb. 531. Syme, E. B. v. 4. 681. Nym. 404. 
Denizen or casual. Roadsides and waste ground. Rare, sporadic. B. 
May-July. 
First record, Sib. 1794. Unlocalised. Carduus marianus, L. 
3. Swere. Waste ground a mile beyond Adderbury towards Ded- 
dington, at the entrance of the lane to Adderbury West, T. Bees. 
5. Isis. Waste ground near Osney, 1880. 
6. Thame. Bullingdon Bog, H. E. Garnsey. 
Berks. Plentiful by roadside about a mile from Abingdon, 1827, Bz. 
CIRSIUM. Scop. 
C. eriophorum, Scop. Woolly-headed Thistle. 
Top. Bot. 243. Syme, E. B. v. 11.687. Nym. 405. Cnicus, L. Car- 
duus eriophorus, L. 
Native. Dry pastures, roadsides, open woods. Locally common. B. 
July—Sept. 
First record, Carduus tomentosus, Corona fratrum dictus, Park. Black- 
stone, 1737. 
1. Stour. Sibford Heath. 
8. Swere. Hardwick Hill, Bretch, Gull. Not common, T. Bees. 
4. Ray. Stow Wood! Sib. Between Stonehouse Farm and [Weston] 
Peat Pits, W. Wilson Saunders. Upper Heyford, in great abundance 
between Tackley and Gibraltar, Br. Blackthorn, Kirtlington, 
Tackley, Elsfield, Middleton Stoney. 
5. Isis. Between Oxford and’ Woodstock, South Leigh, Sib. About 
Charlbury, plentifully, Blackstone. In Walcot Wilderness and 
about Langley Manor, Blackstone MSS. Do. in Gough, ete. 
Stonesfield, Hb. Br. Mus. Coll. H. Bos. 1866. Near Ashford Mills! 
