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about ten distinct localities on the Shropshireside of the border, in Wimperhill Wood(SO7376 & SO7476) and Skeys Wood(SO7677 & SO7777) by John Bingham andBrett Westwood. A record for Haughmond Hill(SJ5414) by Allan McGregor Stirling in 1958has never been repeated.4321Anagallis minimaLeighton recorded this species in cereal fieldsat Battlefield (SJ5116) and Hencott Pool(SJ4916) in about 1841, and in his Flora hegives a record by Henry Spare for Oakly Park(SO4876) which should probably beconsidered unconfirmed. In 1870 GriffithGriffiths also dubiously recorded it atCardington (SO5095) and Minton (SO4390).William Phillips (1878) listed the same sites asLeighton, and although he did make newrecords for many species, it seems possible thathe was just repeating the old ones on thisoccasion. Diamond (1891) lists it as frequent inthe Oswestry district, which again seems ratherdoubtful.Anthemis arvensis04938272 3 4 5 6 7 81Antennaria dioica (L.) Gaertn.Mountain EverlastingNative. Extinct (1945).Although this is a common and widespreadspecies on hills and mountains in the north andwest, it has declined almost to extinction in thelowlands of England.Turner & Dillwyn (1805) gave a record for it‘on the road from Trebrodind (possiblyTrebrodier, SO2080) to Clun,’ but it has notbeen recorded in that part of the county again.In 1891 Diamond listed it as occurring onLlanymynech Hill (SJ2622), but whether inShropshire or Montgomeryshire he `does notsay. It has subsequently been recorded on theWelsh side of the border many times, but not inShropshire. Ellen Lloyd discovered it onLlynclys Hill (SJ2723) in 1926, where she sawit again in 1932 and where J.H. Owen recordedit in 1945. The site was apparently at Jacob’sLadder, close to the Welsh border butdefinitely on the English side.Anthemis arvensis L.Corn ChamomileArchaeophyte. Rare.Rare Plants of Shropshire 2309872 3 4 5 6 7 8William Hunt Painter’s record for Bishop’sCastle (SO3288, 1896) is reliable, as are thoseof W.B. Allen, George Potts and J.C. Melvillof it as a casual on waste ground at Buildwas(SJ6304) in 1910 & 1915.In 1975 Henry Hand found it in a corn field atAlcaston (SO4587), and it was still there in1986 (Mary Fuller) and 1990 (HelenDavidson). Pat Parker saw it on the edge of afield at Cantlop (SJ5105) in 1981, and Jane Ingrecorded it in a newly-seeded grassland atWeston Lullingfields (SJ4125) in 1992. Theonly other record for the county is from wasteground at Eaton Constantine (SJ5908, RobStokes, 1996). It is on the edge of its range inShropshire, and from these few records itseems to occur now only as a casual.