146 ALIEN FLORA OF BRITAIN 



[Rhinanthus major, Ehrh. A native of woods and 

 pastures from Southern England (Mr. Marshall tells me 

 it grows in damp meadows in West Somerset), Normandy, 

 and Belgium to Siberia. Elsewhere in England it has 

 only been recorded as a non-permanent introduction 

 in cultivated ground.] 



Scrophularia canina, L. A native of dry hills in 

 South Europe. The variety pinnatifida has been found 

 on ballast at Cardiff. 



Scrophularia vernalis, L. A native of wet bushy 

 places over the greater part of Europe, reaching as far 

 as Belgium. In England and Normandy it is only 

 naturalised. The English records are all more or less 

 associated with garden culture. 



Verbascum Blattaria, L. Widely dispersed in the 

 Old and New Worlds. Scattered irregularly in culti- 

 vated and waste places over the central and southern 

 counties of England. It is of long standing in such 

 situations, being on record as early as the seventeenth 

 century. 



[Verbascum Lychnitis, L. Native in dry pastures 

 and woods in Southern England, as it is also in the 

 northern part of the Continent. Over the greater part 

 of its range in England it is, on the contrary, a mere 

 casual in waste ground.] 



[Verbascum nigrum, L. A native of wood-borders 

 and broken hillsides in Southern England, as in Belgium 

 and many other parts of Europe. It shows, however, 

 in Britain a distinct tendency to occupy waste ground 



