172 ATRIPLEX. — POLYGONUM. 



mark, and it also occurs in several spots on the coast and river-banks 

 near Berwick. When it grows within reach of the water, and in 

 muddy ground, it becomes much larger and more fleshy, having 

 totally lost the elegance for which it is remarkable in its more 

 typical state when growing on gravelly and sandy places, and would 

 hardly be known as the same plant, but probably be taken for a 

 state of A. patula. This latter state is frequent above the bridge at 

 Berwick." C. C. Babington. Sea-shore from Fast Castle to Bilsdean, 

 J. Hardy. 



477. A. PATULA. See Woods in Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. iv, 

 283. — .^at f^m. — Waste and cultivated grounds, common. Autumn. 



478. A. DELToiDEA. Wastes. My specimens were gathered on 

 the sea-shore near the Needle-eye. It is the most interesting species 

 of an ill-favoured genus. Autumn. 



479. A. ANGusTiroLiA. Waste and cultivated grounds, common. 

 July-Sept. 



480. A. ERECTA. Babington in Trans. Berw. N. Club, i. 177: 

 Prim. Fl. Sam. 82 : Supp. Fl. Bath. 88. — Corn-fields, common. 

 " I noticed it in Holy Island, and also near the town of Berwick, in 

 great plenty." C. C. Babington. Autumn. 



481. A. LiTTORALis, var. a. — Sea-coast. D. "Coast beyond 

 Beal, plentiful," Thompson. Holy Island, sparingly. 



482. Salicornia herbacea. Woods in Ann. and Mag. N. 

 Hist. Ser. 2. viii. 229. — |Kar£ii) ^ampl^trc. — On the shore in muddy 

 places. D. Between Goswick links and Fenham, abundant : Holy 

 Island. Autumn. — Occasionally sold in Berwick for the purpose of 

 pickling. 



483. Su^da maritima = Chenopodium maritimum = Schoberia 

 maritima. D. On the coast at and beyond Beal to Fenham, not 

 common. Holy Island. Autumn. 



484. Salsola kali. Saltwort. On our shore in sandy places, 

 common. July. 



485. ScLERANTHUs ANNUus. On earth-capt walls, and in dry 

 sandy fields, common. July, continuing to flower until winter has 

 set in. 



486. Polygonum amphibium. a. natans. Ponds, ditches, and 

 slow streams, common. — /3. terrestre. Sides of ditches, rivers, and 

 in moist corn-fields. July, Aug. — " Stupenda metamorphosis plantae 

 ex solo : in siccis erecta scabra tristis ; in aquosis natans glabra et 

 Iseta." Linnaeus. 



27. P. bistorta. Snakeweed. In the plantation above Newwater- 

 haugh house, probably introduced. June. 



487. P. LAPATHiFOLiuM. Road-sides and cultivated grounds, 

 not uncommon. Aug. 



488. P. PERsiCARiA. liVclJjiJ^anfe. Moist places and waste 



