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A FLORA OF HIGH WYCOMBE. 



By James Beitten. 



( Continued from page 52. J 



S. aquaticuSf L. Bab. 184. Damp places, and by streams. 



Carlina. Linn. Carline Thistle. 

 O. vulgaris, L. Bab. 186. Dry places, frequent : Keep Hill, etc. 



Arctium. Linn. Burdock. 

 A. Lappa, L. [I have not yet ascertained wbich. of tbe five species given in 

 tbe Manual occur with us, but I believe that we have A. majus, Schk., 

 and A. minus, Schk.] "Waste places, roadsides, and woods. A. minus 

 occurs in the Marlow list. 



Centaurba. Linn. Knapweed. 

 C. nigra, L. Bab. 188. Meadows, roadsides, and borders of fields. 



Note. — Occasionally occurs witli white flowers. The radiate form ( ? C. nigrescens, 

 Ang. not Bab.), is here equally common with, tliat usaally observed. 



C. Gyanus,Jj. Cornflower. Bab. 188. Cornfields, frequent about Little 



Marlow j cabbage field near Handy Cross ; cornfield by the side of the 



road from Park Lane to Lane End ; * ' cornfields at the top of Cookham 



Down (Berks.) etc." Pliyt. i. 989. O.S. 

 C. Scabiosa, L. Bab. 188. Roadsides and borders of fields. 

 Note. — A pretty white-flowered variety sometimes occurs. 



Onopordum. Linn. Cotton Thistle. 

 i 0. Acantliium, L. Bab. 190. A fine plant in the hedge, and another in 



the field, adjoining the Ham Farm, past West Wycombe, from the 



garden of which it probably escaped. 



Carduus. Linn. Thistle. 

 C. nutans, L. Musk Thistle. Bab. 190. Fields and waste ground. 

 C. crispus, L. Bab. 190. Roadsides and waste ground, not very common ; 



near Hughenden Church ; West Wycombe ; waste ground, Wycombe, 



occasionally ; roadside near Marlow. 



y3 C. acanthoides, L. Mr. Mill has recorded this as being "frequent" about 

 Marlow ; and Mr. Melvill informs me that it grows " on a hedgebank 

 between Marlow and Wycombe, near an old chalk-pit on the right hand 



