172 FLORA OF THE EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. 



ELyEAGNACE^. 



1355. Hippophae rhamnoid.es. Linn., 7. 



(Sea Buck-thorn). 



Native, Ger., 2. May, III. 



Abundant on the sandy penhisula of Spurn, being the 

 principal shrub there. This is the "dune thorn" of the 

 Dutch islands. 



LORANTHACE^. 



1356. Viscum album. Linn., 40. 



(Mistletoe). 



Native, Eng., 2, 4, 6. April. 



Occasionally in gardens on apple trees. West Ella ; ^ 

 Hull Bank House ; the vicarage garden, Sproatley ; and 

 formerly on hawthorn in Green Lane, Newland, Hull (now 

 extinct, the tree having been cut down) ; much on apple- 

 trees at Dunswell, April, 1902*; Kedlington (J.B.). The 

 late Col. Haworth-Booth informed the writer that people still 

 came begging for the plant to make decoctions for the cure 

 of epilepsy, and considered it generally efficacious ! 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



1359. Euphorbia Helioscopia. Linn., 112. 



(Sun Spurge). 



Colonist, Brit., 1-7. Summer. 



Common in cornfields and gardens. 



1360. E. platyphyllos. Liym., 28. 



Native, Eng. August. 



Once near Sayce Farm on R. Hull, but probably intro- 

 duced with corn.* 



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