94 MR. J. G. BAKER ON PLANTS 
a thicket near Chesterholme, and had none of the fruit turned 
scarlet, at the date of the excursion to Crag Lough, the first week 
in September. The fruit of this is globose; the sepals not 
reflexed, but either spreading or erecto-patent, and glandular all 
over the back; the leaves are glaucous-green and glabrous on 
both sides, with connivent sometimes slightly double teeth, the 
petioles slightly glandular but not hairy, and the stipules some- 
what setoso-ciliated. The second grows near the Rubus rudis, 
at the lower part of Holywell Dene. There by the first week in 
September the globose fruit had all turned scarlet, though the 
sepals were still mostly persistent. The sepals are copiously 
pinnate with toothed leafy points, erecto-patent in direction, 
tomentose at the sides, and copiously setoso-ciliated. The leaves 
are glaucous-green with open serratures, the central ones with 
three or four glandular teeth, glabrous above but slightly hairy 
on the veins beneath ; the petioles tomentose and setose with 
hooked aciculi, the terminal leaf broadly ovate, the stipules and 
bracts copiously setoso-ciliated. The third grows in the hedge 
between Hartley Junction Station and the Seaton Delaval 
Avenue. Here by the first week in September the ovate fruit 
was mostly turned scarlet and the sepals fallen. The sepals are 
erecto-patent in direction and glandular all over the back ; the 
leaves glaucous-green, especially beneath, glabrous on both sides, 
doubly serrated, the petioles with numerous sete but no hairs, 
and the stipules setoso-ciliated. 
Lepigonum neglectum (Kindb). This, the Spergularia media 
of English authors, is the only plant of the genus which I saw 
in the salt marshes about the mouth of the Holywell Burn and 
along Hartley Links. It is distinguished from J. marinum by 
its much smaller capsule, and the seeds being many or most of 
them without a wing. 
Pastinaca sativa. The Pastinaca of the Ballast Hills seem 
to be all P. pratensis (Jordan), the common English form. It 
has the leaves dull and slightly hairy upon the upper surface, 
and the umbel with from eight to ten rays. 
Polygonum Rai (Bab). Of this species W. H. Brown and I | 
gathered good specimens in two or three places amongst the 
