162 NOTES ON A FEW NOKTH LANCASHIRE PLANTS. [.Time, 



sure in being able to confirm the statements of tbe above-named 

 botanists of th^ seventeentli and nii>eteenth centuries, I having 

 during the present month fourjdit^heKplant growing abundantly 

 in the township of Billington (adjoining that of Harwood), about 

 a mile from "Whalley, nearly opposite Moreton Hall, and withi^ 

 four or five yards of the river Raider.' ,, "No, 'doubt this is th^ sj^^j 

 indicated by Gerarde, it agreeing witli liis statement in ever^ 

 respect, except as to the names "Whanley^' and " Talbot Ba,nke^^^ 

 The first is evidently a misprint for Whalley, or, as tbe;^s| 



author has it in his notice of Tragopogon porrifolius, "Whawley." 

 As to the second name, I have made many inquiries as to 

 whether there \<fas k'wood'/iii,. the neighbourhood called Talbot 

 Bank, but no one knew of such a wood, and said "Whalley 

 Banks" must be the place referred to, and that is the name of 

 the wopd in which the plant j^ now growmg. ^' ,^ry^ ,^^^ ^jrp 



Maianthemum bifolium. — I was aware of Gerarde^s notice oi this 

 plant growing "in Dingley Wood six miles from Preston and 

 Aundernesse, and in Harwood nerp^lo JJlackburne lik,ewisp^" 

 previously to reading the remarks thereon in the ' Phytologist' 

 of October last (vol. v, p. 318). There is a place called " Dinck- 

 le'y," neai' Ribchester, about ten or twelve miles from Preston, 

 and I believe there is a wood there called "Dinckley Wood." 

 This must be the Avood referred to by Gerarde ; at least I know 

 of no place near Preston called "Dingley," or anything lilf^^^ 

 that name, except the above-named Dinckley. The Dinckley 

 referred to is near Harwood, also mentioned by Gerarde. I have 

 never searched Dinckley W^ood, but hope to do so next summer. 



Primula farinosa. — Gerarde says that "these plants {i.e. Red 

 Bird-cyne and White Bird-eyne) grow very plentifully in moist 

 and squally grounds in the North parts of England, as in Har- 

 wood ncere to Blackburne in Lancashire, and ten miles from 

 Preston in Aundernesse." I cannot exactly confirm the old 

 botanist's statement as to the above habitat of this beautiful 

 plant, but I found it growing plentifully last year near the foot 

 of Peiidle Hill, not far from Pendleton Hall, and only a few 

 miles from Harwood. The Mr. Ward before mentioned tells me 

 he has found it very near to, if not actually in the township dL 



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