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PLANTS IN FLOWEE AROUND WHITBY. 



[August, 



litieSj I send you a list of plants in flower in the neighbourhood 

 of Whitby, in Yorkshire, at the end of May. 



Osmunda regalis, that formerly grew luxuriantly at Thomason 

 Foss, a few miles from Whitby, has been completely eradicated 

 through the rapacity of cultivators of Ferns, who have come from 

 a distance, and carried it away to make a few shillings of the 

 miserable plants they rear from the roots. This inconsiderate 

 greediness seems extending, and is likely to exterminate some of 

 our rarest plants. Through it the Polystichum Lonchitis is almost 

 lost in the vicinity of Settle. 



I only attach the locahties to the less common plants ; and, of 

 course, many had gone out of flower, and are not named. 



Anemone nemorosa. 

 Ranunculus aquatilis. 

 Ranunculus Ficarla. 

 Ranunculus auricomus. 

 Ranunculus acris. 

 RanuncuUis hulbosus. 

 Caltlia palustris. 

 TroUius europaus. Sparingly at 



Beck Hole. 

 Corydalis lutea. Near gardens. 

 Fumaria capreolata. Very fine. 

 Coronopus Ruellii. Sandsend. 

 Lepidium campestre. 

 Cocldearia officinalis. Exceedingly 



fine, some plants thii'ty inches 



high. 

 Armor acia rusticana. Euswai-p. 

 Cardamine amara. Cockmill Woods. 

 Gardamine pratensis. 

 Cardamine Mrsuta. 

 Barbarea vulgaris. 

 Cheiranthus Cheiri. Abbey walls. 

 Viola canina. 

 Polygala vulgaris. 

 Lychnis diurna. 

 Lychnis vespertina. 

 Sagina procumbens. 

 HoncJcenya peploides. Sandsend. 

 Arenaria trinervis. 



Stellaria media. 



Stellar ia Holostea. 



Stellaria neglecta. 



Geranium Robertianum. 



Oxalis Acetosella. 



Spartium scoparium. 



JJlex europceus. 



Anthyllis Vulneraria. West ClifP. 



Trifolium pratense. 



Trifolium minus. 



Lotus corniculatus. 



Vicia sativa. 



Vicia angustifolia. 



Orobus tuberosus. 



Prunus spinosa. 



Rrunus Padiis. Abundant in Pick- 

 ering Valley, from Pickering to 

 Beck Hole. 



Geum rivale. Cockmill Wood. 



Potentilla anserma. 



Potentilla Tormentilla. 



Fragaria vesca. 



Sanguisorba officinalis. 



Poterium Sanguisorba. 



Alchemilla vulgaris. 



Oratcegus Oxyacantha. 



Pyrus Malus. CockmiU Wood. 



Ribes rubrum. Cockmill Wood. 



Saxifraga granulata. Cockmill Wd. 



