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with the same fate that befell the Potentilla argentea the 
first year I met with it. 
Of the Composites, Lactuca virosa used to grow as a per- 
manency on the site of the factory I have referred to and has, 
I fear, fallen a victim to it. Cnicus arvensis has several odd 
forms, including variety mitis, which should repay further 
investigation, but thistles are horrible things to handle. Last 
year I found Artemisia vulgaris variety coarctata, a tree-like 
form of the common mugwort, with exceedingly narrow leaves. 
The rayed form of Senecio vulgaris is common and Erigeron acre 
and E. canadense can always be found together, though I have 
not yet hit upon the hybrid which grows with them at Bristol. 
Erigeron canadense also grows in a yard off the barrack-square. 
Others of the order are Pulicaria dysenterica, Chrysanthemum 
segetum, the handsome Anthemis tinctoria, so like the last, 
Grindelia squarrosa (1910), Achillea ptarmica, Achillea biennis 
(1915), Achillea tomentosa, a beautiful yellow variety, Centaurea 
cyanus, C. melitensis (1912 and 1914) and a bush-growing 
Centaurea, probably a form of paniculata, with tiny bluish 
white flowers. 
I found no Centaurea of any kind this last year (1915). 
Echium vulgare and Lithospermum vulgare are fairlj^ com- 
mon ; less so, Anchusa officinalis and A. sempervirens. A 
strange foreigner, Echinospermum Lappula, not unlike a 
Myosotis, turned up in 1912, and two years later so did Amsinc- 
kia lycopsioides, again like a Myosotis, but with an orange- 
yellow corolla. Atropa Belladonna grows in a corner near 
Llanthony Abbey, and has done so for very many years ; near 
it is Lycium chinense, the Duke of Argyll's tea plant. The two 
Solanums and Hyoscyamus niger are regular visitors. 
Linaria minor loves the railway ballast, and once L. 
purpurea, which is not uncommon in the Great Gully at 
Clifton, appeared here for a season. 
Of the Labiates, the most conspicuous are Lycopus 
curopoeus (permanent) Salvia verticillata (common and per- 
sistent), Calamintha Clino podium, Scutellaria galericulata (both 
persistent), Nepeta Cataria (once only but in profusion) and 
Ballota nigra. 
Anagallis coerulca is not infrequent here. 
