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leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 93, as C. arvense ; Curtis FI. Lond., i, 94, as C. arvense ; FI. Dan. t. 626, as 
C. arvense ; Reichenbach Icon, v, t. 234, fig. 4980, as C. arvense. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 4.3. (a — b ) Flowering branches. Cambridgeshire (C. E. M.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 2228, as C. arvense ; Don, 212, as C. arvense ; Fries, xv, 41, as C. arvense ; FI. Avstr.- 
Hung. 3242, as C. arvense ; Herb. FI. Ingric. viii, 104, as C. arvense. 
Shoot softly pubescent. Inflorescence with 3 — 10 flowers. 
This is the common British plant, with a foreign distribution as in the species. 
Map 18. Distribution of C. arvense in the British Islands 
(b) C. arvense var. andrewsi 1 Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 89 (1864); [C. arvense var. strictum Andrews ex Watson 
in Phyt. ii, 441 (1846 nomen).] 
Stems rigid, rather brittle, very slightly hairy, the hairs very short and reflexed. Laminae greener 
than in var. angustifolium, crowded, subglabrous, ciliate, somewhat recurved, with a prominent midrib. 
Inflorescence with only 1 flower. 
Ireland — Great Arran Isles, co. Galway, and on the Burren, co. Clare. Not known on the continent of Europe. 
(/ 3 ) var. andrewsi forma glabrescens Druce in Moss Camb. Brit. FI. iii, 45 ; C. arvense var. glabrescens 
Druce FI. Berksk. 92 (1897) nomen. 
Shoot green, glabrescent, less rigid than the Irish forms of var. andrewsi , and merging gradually 
into var. angustifolium. 
1 After William Andrews (1802 — 1880) who discovered the plant in 1845 in co. Galway (see Phyt. ii, 441 (1846)). 
