MIALL ON THE BOTANY OF MAl.HAM. 249 



wild at Lakonhaiii " in Norfolk. The Reigatc station lias even been 

 claimed as a natural one. Several Scottish claims are advocated by 

 writers to various periodicals. The old habitats in Cornwall complete 

 the list of places in which the plant has been supposed indigenous, 

 At least I know of none besides those mentioned. It is by no means 

 improbable that it is introduced in all, but if wild in Britain at all, 

 we must conclude that it is wild at Malham. vii. 



PlNGUICULACEJE. 



rinrjiucula vulgaris,!^. Malham Moor ! 71. vi. 



Peimulacejl. 



Primula vulgaris, Huds., b. elatior. Pasture near Malham Cove ! J. Nowell. 

 This station and several others were given me for P. elatior, Jacq., 

 which I believe does not occur in Yorkshire at all. The Malham 

 plant seems to be that variety of P. vulgaris which is known by the 

 stalked umbel. (P. acaulls, /3 canescens of Koch ?) Mr. Baker is 

 clearly of opinion that the Oxlip of the North Riding is a hybrid 

 between P. vulgaris and P. verls, and quotes " a series of the same 

 range of hybrids from both France and Switzerland, under the name 

 of P. variabilis, Goupil, and of hybrids also with the true P. elatior, 

 Jacq.," which he possesses. It is not improbable that in England 

 we have but three PW/nu/rts specially distinct — P.farlnosa, P. vulgaris, 

 and P. verls, but many hybrids between the latter two. The follow- 

 ing observations are from Hooker and Arnott's Flora ^8th ed. p. 345). 

 '^ On the continent the present species (P. verls) and P. vulgaris never 

 grow intermingled, and constantly retain the characters assigned to 

 them (a singular mistake !) : in England, however, (and in Scotland 

 wherever P. verls occurs,) they are found together and a complete 

 series of intermediate forms, constituting the common Oxlip, may be 

 observed, which must either be accounted fertile hybrids, or proofs of 

 the two extremes being only different races of the same species." iv. v. 



P. farlnosa, L. Malham Cove, &c. ! A common plant in wet places ; 

 called by the people of Craven '* Bog-bean," a name which properly 

 belongs to Menyanthes trlfollata, L. 10. vi. vii. 

 Plumb AGIN ACEJ::. 



Armerla marltlma, Aut. •' In an elevated moist pasture a little above 

 Stockdale, on the road to Malham, plentifully." Dr. Windsor. 

 Probably /3 puhescens, Link. 



