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IT is interesting to note that almost simultaneously with the publication of the note in NATURE of October 12 of the twelve-year establishment of a colony of the alien composite Siegesbeckia orientalis at Fresh-field Station, Lancashire (botanical vice-county 59), I have been able to add to my herbarium a specimen from a new station at Rufford, twelve miles inland westwards, and it is of further interest that some of the flower-heads have six bracts. It appears that the Rufford colony has been growing for some years in a sandy wild garden but was only recently identified in our work on the local flora for the Rufford Village Museum exhibit. It was locally believed that the plants might have been introduced with poultry food for they flourish abundantly and spread rapidly, especially after a bonfire. There is, nevertheless, the possibility of birds or hares transporting seeds adhering to sticky bracts from the Freshfield site.
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HARDY, E. Siegesbeckia orientalis in Britain. Nature 146, 688 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146688b0
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