THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
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S, asper, Hoffin. Rough Sow-thistle. 
Native: On banks, by waysides, and in cultivated lands. Common. 
May to September. Area general. 
S. arvensis, Linn. Corn Sow-thistle. 
Native : In cultivated fields and by waysides. Frequent. July to 
September. Area general. 
CKEPIS. 
[C. setosa, Hall Jil. Bristly Haivksbeard. 
Casual: In cultivated land. Rare. August. 
II. Clover field, Woodloes, Warwick; corn fields, Myton, Warwick ! 
H. B. 
A weed of uncertain appearance, brought with corn seeds.] 
C. virens, Linn. Smooth Hawksheard. 
Native : On banks, waysides, in pastures, &c. Common. June to 
October. Area general. 
Both the large and small varieties are abundant, and are possibly 
merely states of a variable species. 
C. biennis, Linn. Large Rough Hawksheard. 
Colonist: In corn fields and on banks. Very rare. June, July. 
II. Hill Wootton, on railway bank, H. B. ; corn field near Binton 
Bridges. 
The large form of C. virens is liable to be mistaken for this plant. 
C. paludosa, Moench. Marsh Hawksheard. 
Native : In marshy woods. Very rare. July. 
I. Sutton Park. 
Abundant here when I first found it in 1866, but very thinly 
scattered in 1882. 
HIERA.CIUM. 
H. Pilosella, Linn. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. 
Native : On banks, waysides, and heath lands. Common. May to 
July. Area general. 
H. murorum, Linn. Wall Hawkweed. Golden Lungwort. 
Native : On banks and in woods. Very rare. July. 
II. “ On the bank by the side of the turnpike-road at Marsom’s Gate 
(Dunnington) ; Oversley Wood,” etc.. Part., ii., 369. 
I have carefully searched Oversley Wood for three seasons without 
being able to find a trace of this plant. A form of H. vulgatum 
occurs there which might have been mistaken for this plant. 
Purton does not mention H. vulgatum. 
H. vulgatum. Fries. Wood Hawkioeed. 
Native : In wood and on banks, and wall tops. Locally common. 
June to August. 
I. Sutton Park; Middleton Heath ; Marston Green ; lanes about 
Solihull, Shirley, &c. 
II. On walls near the Charter House, near Coventry; on walls and 
banks at Arbury Hall ! sparingly on banks, Berkswell ! 
Keresley, T. Kirk, Phyt., ii., 971; walls in Warwick! Perry, 
1817 ; on Rugby and Dunchurch Road near the toll gate ! 
Blox., N.B.G. 
II. H. sylvaticum, c. pictum; plantations, etc., near Arbury Hall, 
T. K. Phyt., ii., 971. “I have received it from Arbury Hall, 
collected by Mr. Kirk” ; Syme's E. B., ed. 3, vol. v. 
H. maculatum, Sm. 
Hill Wootton railway bank, H. B., Herh. Brit. Mus.; near Arbury 
Hall, T. Kirk, Herh. Brit. Mus.; old walls, Warwick. 
This seems to be the plant recorded by Kirk in “ The Phytologist” 
under the name H. vulgatum, var. pictum. 
