134 Alien Plants. [Sess. 



Xlll.— ALIEN PLANTS. 



List of " Introduced " or " Alien " Plants gathered by 

 Members of the Society in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh during 1903 and 1904. Submitted to 

 the Society at the meetings held on 21th Febrvxtry and 

 lUli October 1904. 



By Mr JAMES ERASER and Mr JAMES M'ANDREW. 



The small letter " a " is placed after the names of plants 

 gathered in 1903, and "b" after those got in 1904. The 

 localities are represented by figures, thus : 1 is Slateford 

 and Hailes Quarry ; 2, Granton (including railway bank at 

 Granton Road, nurseries on the north side of the city, and 

 Craigleith Quarry) ; 3, Musselburgh ; 4, Murrayfield ; 5, Leith ; 

 6, Craigmillar ; 7, Inveresk ; 8, Drylaw ; 9, Comiston and 

 Eedford; 10, Colinton and Balerno ; 11, Eoslin and Bilston 

 Glen; 12, North Queensferry to St David's; 13, Burntisland 

 and Fife coast eastwards ; 14, Linlithgowshire; 15, Hadding- 

 tonshire ; 16, Blackford Hill; and 17 is attached to plants 

 seen in the Seed Trial Grounds of Messrs Bell and Bieber- 

 stedt, Leith, having grown from impurities found in the seeds 

 of commerce. 



The mark of interrogation indicates that the specific name 

 has not yet been determined, and the t that there is just 

 the slightest doubt as to the identity of the species. 



Plants not gathered by the compilers have the name of 

 the collector placed after the number which represents the 

 locality. 



Ranunculaceae. 

 Adonis sestivalis, L. t. b 5. Ranunculus falcatus, L. b 5. 



Delphinium orientale, J. Gay. b 5. R. muricatus, L. a 5 ; b 1 , 5. 

 Helleborus fcetidus, L. b 2. R. parviflorus, L. a 5 ; b 1, 5. 



Nigella damascena, L. b 5. R. sardous, Crantz. a 5 ; b 1, 5. 



Ranunculus arvensis, L. a 5 ; b 1 , 5. 



Papaveraeese. 



Chelidonium majus, L. a 2, 4 ; b Papaver Argemone, L. a 5 ; b 1, 



2, 4. 5, 9. 



Cory dalis claviculata, Z)C. b 1. P. Lecoqii, Lamotte ( = P. dubium, 

 Eschscholtzia californica, CAam. b 1. 2/. with yellow juice), a 5. 



Glaucium corniculatum, Curt, a 5. P. somniferum, L. a 5, 13. 



G. corniculatum var. phoeniceum, Rcemeria violacea, Medic, a 5. 



DC. a 5 ; b 1. 



