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I. Sutton Park; Middleton Heath; Coleshill Heath; Maxtoke; 
Fillongley, &c. 
II. Near Rugby, R. S. R., 1878; Drayton; Henley; Lapworth, (fee. 
S. columbaria, Linn. Small Scabious. 
Native: On banks and in pastures, in calcareous and marly soils. 
Very local. June to September. 
II. Tachbrook, Stockton, Y. and B. Right of road between Birding- 
bury and Wharf, R.S.R., 1878. Moreton Morrel! Compton 
Verney, H. B. ; Butler’s Marston, Bolton King; between 
Bearley Cross and Little Alne; bridle road near Billesley; 
hedge bank between Drayton Bushes and Red Hill; Binton ; 
Marl Cliff ; Ashorne ; Edge Hills, near Ratley. 
S. arvensis, Linn. Field Scabious. 
Native : On hedge banks and in fields and pastures. Common. 
June to September. Area general. 
Var. integrifolia, occasionally with type. 
COMPOSITE. 
ONOPORDON. 
0. Acanthium, Linn. Common Cotton Thistle; Common Argentine. 
Alien or denizen; on rubbish and roadsides. Rare. July to 
September. 
II. Bidford : Broome, Purt., ii., 385 ; near the old pound, Coten End, 
Warwick ; in a lane leading from Emscote to Nicholas meadow, 
Warwick ; Perry FI., 68 ; Woodloes ; Hampton Lucy ; Off- 
church, H. B.; Tredington, Newb.; Temple Grafton ; Alveston 
Pastures. 
SILYBUM. 
S. Marianum, Gaertn. Milk Thistle; Ladies' Thistle. 
Casual or Alien: On rubbish heaps, road sides and ditch banks. 
Rare. June. 
II. Alcester; Coughton, Purt. i., 380. Race-course, Warwick; Perry, 
1817 ; hedge bank on the N. side of the common, Warwick; in 
a lane leading from Nicholas meadow to Emscote Road; and 
in the Saltisford brickyard; Warwick, Perry, FI., 67. Chester¬ 
ton, F. and B.; Scarbank, Herb. Per.; hedge banks, Milverton; 
Chesterton Windmill, H. B. 
CARDUUS. 
C. nutans, Lin7i. Musk Thistle. 
Native: On heaths, banks, and in fields. Locally common. May 
to July. 
I. Banks at Aston and Nechells Green, Ick. Anal, 1837. Field by 
Saltley toll-gate, 1867, W. B. Grove. Sutton Railway Bank; 
Sutton Park; Middleton; Coleshill Heath ; Shustoke; 
Hartshill, (fee. 
II. Great plenty at Red Hill! and Grafton ! amongst the quarries of 
limestone, Purt. ii., 379 ; on the road from Stratford to War¬ 
wick, Perry FI., 67; Chesterton; Emscote, Y. and B.; near 
Great Alne ; Alveston Pastures ; Hill Morton ; Edge Hills. 
C. crispus, Linn. Welted Thistle; Thistle-upon-Thistle. 
Native: In woods, on banks, and in pastures. Very local. July 
to September. 
I. (Polyanthemos), Four Oaks, near Sutton; lane from Shustoke to 
Maxtoke; fields near Coleshill church ; Coleshill Heath; 
Temple Balsall. 
