THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 



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1845. Sides of the new road, near Godley Bridge. — Med 

 Bot. Soc. 



1867. Pule Hill, and near the upper water wheel, Shibden, 

 -J.W. 



Common, in banks and waste ground ; most abundant on 

 wet clay soil. One of the earliest occupants of newly 

 made banks, as in the case of the canal in Bolton's time, 

 or the new Skircoat road now, but soon largely displaced. 



Petasites officinalis, Mcench — 105. (P. vulgaris, Desf.) 

 Butterbur. ' Wild Rhubarb.' 

 Native. British type. P. March— May. 

 1775. Tussilago hybrida (the female plant) along with the 

 common sorts in all the holms betwixt Woodhouse Mill 

 and Copley's Mill in Skircoat. It is one of the rarest 

 plants we have in this parish. — /. Bolton. 



1837. Id. Calder banks near Copley Mill. — Herb. Leyl. 

 1842. Binroyd Clough, Norland. — Herb. S.K. 

 1867. Shibden.—/.!^. 



Common, on river and stream sides: the female plant, 

 rarer than but growing with the other, is found in 

 Elland Park Wood, Norland Clough, Soyland, &c. 



Senecio vulgaris, L. — 112. Groundsel. 



Native. British type. A. All the year. 

 1844. Luddenden. — S. King. 1867. Common. — /. W. 

 Very common, in waste places and roadsides, gardens, &c. 



Senecio sylvaticus, L. — 107. 



Native. British type. A. July — August. 

 1775. In several mountainous pastures in Warley, the 



tenter-field at Hand-green, and in a field by Hoyle's 



house, both in Warley. — J.B. 



1844. About High Royd, Warley. — Herb. S.K. 



Infrequent, on sandy ground and waste places : Woodhouse 

 Scar, Savile Park, Shaw Syke, Salterhebble, Wheatley, 

 Heptonstali. 



Senecio viscosus, L — 33. 



Casual. Germanic type. A. July — September. 

 1841. Midgley Scout, &c. — Herb. S.K. 

 1888. Railway bank, Greetland Station. — F. A. Lees and 

 J. W. Davis ; Lees' Flora. 



