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appear to belong to E. officinalis, /S nemorosa, Pers. (E. stricta, Host.y 

 Mr. Baker gives a different account of the Nortli Yorkshire Euphraslas. 

 " Our common form is authenticated by both Jordan and Boreau as 

 their E. ericetorum. A plant which grows upon Stockton forest and 

 Wass moor is E. rigidida, Jordan and Boreau ! Both these range 

 under E. nemorosa, Host., the genuine segregate officinalis apparently 

 not being a British plant at all." North Yorkshire, p. 261. vii. 



Oeobanchace^e. 

 Orobanche Hederce, Duby. This or 0, rubra, Dr. "Windsor thinks he found 

 " under the Rocks, on the east side of Malham Tarn in 1802." Con- 

 sidering that neither Ivy nor Thymus Serpyllum, upon which these 

 two Orobanches are severally parasitical, is found on these rocks, we 

 must presume a mistake. I can find no Orobanche at all in the spot 

 mentioned. Dr. Windsor conjectures hesitatingly that the rocks 

 may have " been formerly covered with Ivy." This is a mere guess, 

 and if true, would hardly lessen the difficulty. 0. rubra, which is 

 found on the limestone of Leyburn must be taken as the most prob- 

 able of these two unlikely quotations. 



BOBAGINACE^ . 



Amhusa sempervirens, L. Malham Moor! '• No doubt indigenous in the 

 neighbourhood of Settle, and very common." J. Tatham. (Cybele 

 Britannica, ii. p. 282.) " Perhaps wild in Yorkshire and Devonshire." 

 Hooker and Arnott's Flora, 8th ed. p. 294. The Malham station is 

 apparently less open to suspicion than any other British one. Of 

 the Devonshire habitats, Mr. Ravenshaw gives six, (Flowering Plants 

 and Ferns of Devonshire) but marks them all as doubtful, and possi- 

 ble introductions. One of them is given on the authority of the 

 author of the Cybele Britannica, who says of it (ii. p. 282.) that among 

 the several places in which he has seen the plant, this is the only one 

 which " had the appearance of being a natural habitat, and the limited 

 space occupied by the plants in the place in question (that is, in 

 hedges by the road from Barnstaple to Bishop Tawton, Devon), gave 

 rise to a doubt even there." Besides this, Dr. Bromfield reports the 

 species as " truly wild in a retired lane, on a bank amongst weeds, a 

 few miles from Plymouth,"^:^ and Mr. S. P. Woodward thinks it '' really 



* Goulding and Keys' Flora of Plymouth quotes this AncJiusa as common there— 

 a circumstance which renders its introduction to Dr. Bromfield's locality less difficult 

 to explain. 



