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Borago officinalis, L. Common Borage. Alien or casual. 

 II. Widely distributed. 



Obs. The unusual frequency of Borage in Portland 

 cannot be accounted for by bee-culture, which must 

 always have been very limited. It may have been 

 anciently cultivated for its supposed joy-giving 

 virtues, as mentioned by old writers. 

 Obs. Myosotis, L. No record for any species, except 

 M. arvensis, Hill, and M . collina, Hoffm. 



Lithospermum officinale, L. Common Gromwell. Native. 

 II. Freq. East and West Weares. Top Hill. 



L. arvense, L. Corn Gromwell. Colonist. II. Freq. in 

 cornfields. 



Echium vulgare, L. Viper's Bugloss. Native. II. Not com. 

 Verne. East and West Weares. Churchope and 

 thence to near the Lighthouses. Abundant at Chene, 

 1911 ; F. 



Calystegia Sepium, Br. Great Bindweed. Native. II. 

 Rare. East Weare. 



C. Soldanella, Br. Sea-side Bindweed. Native. I. Rather 

 scarce. Railway banks near Smallmouth. A large 

 patch on Chesil Bank near old Rifle Butts ; A. 

 Prelor. II. Cave beloAv Pennsylvania Castle. Revd. 

 H. E. Fox in Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, 184; now extinct 

 there. Not seen in II. by G. E. Fulleylove, 1909 

 11. 



Convolvulus arvensis, L. Small Bindweed. Native. II. A 

 form wholly pubescent (except as to inside of the corolla), 

 in cult, lands in South Portland. 



Cuscuta Epithymum, Murr. Lesser Dodder. Native. Freq. 

 I. Sandy waste by Chesil Bank. Mere Beach, abundant, 

 1882. II. Verne slopes. East Weare ; near Lower Light- 

 house, abundant ; F. "On herbage as well as on 

 furze ; " Druce in Journ. Bot. 1908, p. 387. 



C. Trifolii, Bab. Clover Dodder. Colonist. II. Very rare. 

 Clover field above West Cliff ; Rev. H. E. Fox in Flo. 

 Dor. Ed. 2, p. 186. 



