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196 this species and the next was gathered by Mr. Baker in 1866 at North Middleton near Wooler, in a field where they grew intermixed. The stem was about three feet high, the leaves similar to those of C. nutans but the spines rather feebler, the heads three to five in a cluster, mostly on distinct stalks but casually two together, two-thirds the size of ordinary C. nutans, and the outer phyllaries not more than half as broad and hardly at all reflexed. This form is about midway between C. nutans and the Continental C. acanthoides, differing from the former about as much as the latter does from C. crispus.

2. , L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Frequent in waste ground, ascending Weardale to Frosterley, and Coqueidale to Linn Shiels, 150 yard's.

3. , Curt. Native. Maritime. English type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Frequent in waste ground all along the coast-line.

4. , D. Denizen. English type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

On the rocks at Bambro' Castle and near the priory on Holy Island (F. T.). Willington Dene and Close Houses near Ovingham (F.). On the Priory Hill at Tynemouth, where it was noted by Wallis, and grows there still. Hartlepool and banks of the Wear at Durham (F.). Gathered also by W. Backhouse at Houghton-le-Skerne and J. Hogg near Norton.

5. , L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1, 2.

Common everywhere in waste ground, ascending to the Main Limestone scars of Kilhope, Welhope, and Highfield, 600 yards.

6. , L. Native. Xerophilous. English type. Area D. Range 1.

Recorded by Wallis from under the hill near the church at Wallsend. Rare on the Magnesian Limestone. In the lane near