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tirely unrecorded since Mr. Babington has taken the genus in hand, 
Iu the list in the third volume of the * Cybele,’ not a single species is 
given from the county, and only three from thefyne province. 
^R. rhamnifolius, Weihe. The large cordate-leaved form, in excellent 
condition, in a lane between Bardon Mills and Chesterholme. A less 
robust and more ovate-leaved plant, on Whitley Links ; and what is 
E a microphyllus variety of the species, in a lane near Bardon 
ills 
R. discolor, Weihe. Hartley Links, ete. 
R. leucostachys, Smith. With the preceding, on Hartley Links. 
R. villicaulis, Weihe. Hedge of lane between Bardon Mills an 
Chesterholme, I have looked for this in vain in Yorkshire. 
R. umbrosus, Arrh.; R. carpinifolius, Bloxam. Whitley Links, 
hedges near Bardon Mills and Seaton Delaval; thickets in Holywell 
Dene, ete. 
Re rudis, Weihe. In good condition, with R. KeAeri, in thickets 
at the lower part of Holywell Dene. 
COR. Radula, Weihe. Thickets in the Seaton Delaval Avenue ; hedges, 
near the Hartley Junction Station. 
R. Kehleri, Weihe. Abundant in Holywell Dene, hedges near 
Bardon Mills, etc. ete. The variety pallidus, in the shady parts of 
Holywell Dene. An allied plant, with equally prickly, stem leaves 
strongly-veined beneath, but seldom quinate, and then the basal pair 
sessile and imbricated, with a fastigiate, level-topped panicle, and 
sepals adpressed to or loosely reflexed from the fruit, forms extensive 
thickets on the Links, north of Whitley 
R. diversifolius, Lindl. Thickets in 
below Chesterholme. 
R. corylifolius, Smith. Hedges, near Whitley, 
don Mills, etc. 
R. cesius, L. Hartley Links, ete. 
-i Pastinaca sativa. ‘The Pastinaca of the ballast hills seems £o be all 
P. pratensis, Jordan, the common English form. The seeds are ovate, 
the leaves dull and slightly hairy on the upper surface, and the umbel 
has seven to ten rays. 
«Polygonum Raii, Bab... Of this species Mr. W. N- Brown and I 
gathered good specimens in characteristic fruit, m two or three places 
. amongst the Links between the village of Seaton Sluice and the mouth 
the ravine of the Bardon Burn, 
Seaton Deleval, Bar- 
