Herbarium catalogue

£x* HERBARIUM OF MISS l. M. HAYWARD, F: Le S- PRESENTED 1040. he 185 S. orientale L. S. Columnae Jacq. Fl. Austr. iv. 12. Reichb. Te. f. 4407. Waysides, field borders, dry hilly places in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Transylvania, Russia, Taurus, Caucasus, Caspian area, Turkestan, Asia Minor, Syria—near Damascus, etc., Afghanistan, India—W. Himalaya, Kashmir, Tibet, Algeria, Morocco, Canaries. Often a weed of cultivation. Found about docks and introduced as a corn alien. A biennial species, 2-6 dm. high. Its smaller and pure yellow flowers, and the erect sepals, distinguish it from the commoner S. altissi- mum. ‘The upper leaves are also much less cut. In altissimum they are usually cut into very narrow segments, and the flowers in that species are creamy white. First record: I. M. H. in 7'r. Bot. Soc. Hdin. 40, 1909. Very plenti- ful on the banks of the Gala from Galashiels, Selk., onwards ; also found on both sides of the Tweed from Galashiels to Kelso, Roxb., 1908-16. Flowering in August and September. Fruiting freely. Det. G. C. Druce. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH UNAM E01210373 Name,__—= Set ga bret ‘ A ore the be Habitat, Sta tiara La bashols (Date 26-P- [GOs : cottetor, FM, Kfeeg ararcds : Remark, copyright reserved