DISTRIBUTION OF SONCHUS PALUSTRIS, L., 
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mistaken for it, some of the Rev. Kirby Trimmer’s localities- 
being only the latter as “ Langley ” ! It is a fine species, 
often growing among beds of reeds to the height of 8 feet. 
Brought from Plumstead Marshes, W. Kent, in 1874, to my 
garden, it has often been 9 feet high in damp summers. It 
sows itself abundantly, even in the crannies of some rockwork 
close by. It flowers the third year after sowing, and is then 
about 3 feet high. When first breaking through the ground 
the plants have protecting scales of a beautiful pink colour, 
which when about an inch high become suffused with pale 
green. 
The English Botany figure t. 935, October 1, 1801, was 
drawn from specimens gathered by Mr. Groult, “ 7 feet 
3 inches high.” July 23, 1801, “near the Thames side 
between Greenwich and Woolwich.”* 
Sonchus palustris , Lin., Sp. Plant, ed. 1, 793, 1753. 
Marsh Sow-thistle. 
Tall marsh sow-thistle. Petiver, Herbarii. Brit. t. 14, 
fig- 7 > T- 7 T- 1 - 
Great tree sow-thistle. Gray. Nat. Arrang. Brit. 
Plants, 418, 1821. 
First Record. “ Sonchus ' tricubitalis folio cuspidata. In 
the meadows betwixt Woolwich and Greenwich, by the 
banks of the Thames.” Merrett. Pinax. Rer. Nat. Brit. 
115, 1666. t 
Distribution : — 
Widely spread in Europe but nowhere common. Denmark, 
Sweden, Scania and Blekinge, France, Germany, Holland, 
Belgium, Spain, rare, Switzerland ? Corsica, N.* Italy, Austro- 
Hungary, Poland, Russia, in 12 Governments ; Caucasus. 
Indicated doubtfully in Russian Asia. 
In England : — 
Co. 15. Kent E. (1666). 
Near Aylesford. Marshall. FI. Kent, 222, 1899. 
Co. 16. Kent W. (1801). 
* F. N. A. Garry. Notes on the Drawings for Eng. Botany. Supp. to 
‘Journal of Botany,’ in, 1903. 
t W. A. Clarke. ‘ First Records of British Plants,’ 86, 1900. 
