128 CONTRIBUTIONS TO A FLORA OF PORTLAND. 



Obs. The station " Sandy places, Chesil Bank, Port- 

 land," in Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, p. 186, quoted on my 

 authority, was not communicated by me, and is an 

 error. 



Hyocyamus niger, L. Henbane. Probably mostly native. 

 Scarce. I. Roadside Chesil near the Beach. II. Near 

 Verne Ditch, many plants, 1878. Churchope, Mansel- 

 Pleydell in Flo. Dor. Ed. 2, p. 186. North Verne ; Easton ; 

 1909; F. 



Obs. Of very uncertain appearance. 



Verbascum Thapsus, L. Great Mullein. Native. II. Freq. 

 Admiralty Incline. East Weare. About old quarries. 

 Churchope. 



Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill. Ivy-leaved Toadflax. Alien or 

 denizen. II. Freq. Unusually abundant and com- 

 pletely naturalised in East Weare. 



Obs. We may infer that L. Cymbalaria, now so 

 common in Portland, was introduced there about 

 the middle of the eighteenth century. 



L. Elatine, Mill. Sharp-leaved Fluellin. Colonist. II. Very 

 rare. Near Lower Lighthouse ; F. 



Obs. Freq. on the mainland ; its rarity in Portland is 



noteworthy. 

 L. spuria, Mill. Round-leaved Fluellin. Colonist. II. Com. 



in cult, land on the Hill. 



L. minor, Desf. (viscida, Moench). Least Toadflax. Colonist. 

 I. Com. on ballast of railway. II. Freq. in 

 cornfields, (as to Avhich see Journ. Bot. 1908, 

 p. 299). 



Obs. Scarcely, if at all, known in I., before construc- 

 tion of the Railway to Chesil. 

 Antirrhinum majus, L. Snapdragon. Alien. II. On walls ; 



Mansel-Pleydell in Flo. Dor, Ed. 2, p. 194. 

 Scrophularia aquatica, L. Water Figwort. Native. II. A form 

 with pubescent leaves on top of old retaining-wall, 

 Churchope ; an instance of sporting in selection of soil 

 (see 2 Phyt. ; O.S. 19). 



