NOTES ON PLANTS. 91 
VIIL—Notes on Plants collected during the Meeting of the British 
Association, 1863. By J. G. Baxer. 
In his account of the distribution through Britain of the 
Brambles, which is published in the third volume of Watson’s 
” Professor Babington remarks that the 
“Cybele Britannica, 
Rubi of the Tyne province, which includes the two counties of 
Northumberland and Durham, are almost entirely unknown and 
unrecorded. Ihave never had, until the present year, a good 
opportunity of studying them, and even now my observations 
have been restricted to a very few localities; but having this 
autumn stayed for a fortnight in Northumberland, for the pur- 
pose of attending the meeting of the British Association, I 
took the opportunity of gathering specimens of all the forms I 
saw, and now venture to lay an account of them before you, 
along with a few other notes which relate to the botany of the 
two counties. 
Ranunculus trichophyllus (Chaix). In plenty in a pond on 
the top of the cliff by the side of the foot-road, between South 
Shields and Marsden. This is very rare in North Yorkshire, 
but we have an allied plant in plenty, the R. Drouetii of Schultz. 
Fumaria Borei (Jordan). Hedgebank at Preston, near 
North Shields. To this species the Rev. A. M. Norman’s Em- 
bleton Fumaria must also be referred, and itis the only Capreo- 
late Fumitory I have at present seen from the two counties. 
Sinapis muralis 8 Babingtonit (Syme). Plentiful on ballast 
at Seaton Sluice. 
Silene puberula (Jordan). Hedgebank, between Earsdon and 
Preston, Northumberland. I think not safely to be separated 
from S. inflata. 
Arenaria leptoclados (Guss). Of this W. H. Brown and I 
gathered very characteristic specimens on Hartley Links. 
Scarcely separable from A. serpyllifolia. 
Rosvs. 
1. Ruamyiroru Stems shining, glabrous, or nearly ‘so, 
the prickles equal, and almost confined to their angles. 
