ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF WEST LANCASHIRE 23 



E. G. Baker, E. S. Marshall, H. & J. Groves, and F. Townsend, 

 for naming critical species or confirming our own determinations. 

 Without such help we should not have ventured to publish some 

 of the species and varieties of the list. 



Ranunculus Baudotii Godr. This has proved to be frequent in 

 suitable localities near the coast, from Preston to the Heysham 

 Peninsula. 



\-''Sisy)iibnwn pannonicnm, Jacq. [S. Sinapistrum Crantz). Scattered 

 abundantly over a considerable area near the Wyre Docks, Fleet- 

 wood, and also more sparingly (one or two plants only) about 

 Preston Docks, Wh. 



Y^'Lepidium Draba L. Near Morecambe, F, A. Lees (in Natuvdlist, 

 1900, p. 246). Wyre Docks, Fleetwood, very fine, June, 1900, Wh. 



"^'Raphayins Rapkanistrum, L. Fields near Preesall and Knott 

 End, Wh. Near Overton and Heysham, Wi. This is quite a rare 

 plant here, and these are the only records we have for it. 



\Reseda lutea L. Plentiful with R. luteola near Preston Docks, 

 July, 1900, Wh. By the Wyre, Ghurchtown, near Garstang, Wi. 



^Wiola tricolor var. Lloydii (Jord.). We have found this growing 

 abundantly about the margins of Cockerham Moss, and in similar 

 situations elsewhere. It seems to prefer newly cultivated soil that 

 has been recently reclaimed from the moss tracts. Sometimes the 

 upper petals are yellow, but they are usually more or less deeply 

 suffused with purple, and examples may be found with both kinds 

 of flowers on one plant. Mr. E. G. Baker, who kindly confirmed 

 our naming of these plants as above, points out that Jordan's 

 description embraces this yellow- flowered state. 



Y^'Saponaria officinalis var. puberula Wierzb. Plentiful on both 

 banks of the river Lune near Caton, and descending to Halton, 

 Aug. 1900, Wh. This agrees with the Hightown plant in every- 

 thing but size, the former beiug somewhat taller. The congested 

 heads of flowers have a markedly different facies from the ordinary 

 plant, which grows by the Kibble to the east of Preston, &c. Mr. 

 Groves informs us that this latter is never entirely glabrous. 



*Spergula arvensis L. var. vulgaris (Boenn.). Field near Pree- 

 sall, Wh. 



'^'Hypericwa dubiuni Leers. Bank of the river Lune near Ark- 

 holme, Aug. 1900, Wi. 



Radiola linoides Roth. Arkholme Moor, Aug. 1900, Wi. 

 Geranium pusUluin L. Roadside between Caton and Halton, 

 Aug. 1900, perhaps of only casual origni ? Wh. 



\^'lmpatiens Noli-tangere L. We are indebted to Dr. F. A. Lees for 

 calling attention to this being a West Lancashire plant {Naturalist, 

 Sept. 1900, p. 279). He says: "The Hindson station of Baker's 

 Flora — Ghyll near Whittington Hall, south-west of Kirby Lonsdale 

 — is in vice-county 60, West Lancaster. I saw plants in a Kendal 

 garden brought thence." This locality, which is inserted in Baker's 

 Flora of the Lake District as in Westmoreland, is about one mile 

 south of the Westmoreland boundary. 

 ^'^'Medicago sativa L. Plentiful on waste ground by the railway in 



