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550. V. nigrum, L. Dark Mullein. 

 Native ; on banks and roadsides, rare. 



Gr. Under Stinchcombe Hill. Near Wotton-under-Edge. 

 Woodmancote, near Dursley, Durdham Down, 1849; 

 Stapleton; Swete, Fl. 55. 



S. Waste ground by Church Road, Weston-super-Mare, 

 1879 ; not seen there since. 



" By what figure of speech this beautiful plant can be 

 called black, not having a particle of that colour about 

 it, we will not determine. All the old botanists, how- 

 ever, have so denominated it ; and if they had any 

 meaning, it can only have been that it was not white." 

 Sir J. E. Smith. VII. VIII. 



(V. Lychnitis, L. was recorded from Banwell, and Milton, 

 S. many years ago. We have no recent information 

 about it.) 



551. V. Blattaria, L. 



Alien or casual with us, very rare. 



(T. "Apparently wild near Potter's Cottage at Combe, 

 near Henbury, July, 1840." Herb. Powell. 



S. Bishport ; Sn-ete, FL 55. On some rough land 

 between Uphill road and the railway, Aug., 1881. On a 

 railway embankment near Winscombe. On walls near 

 Wells, and Yatton. VIII. 



552. V. virgatum, With. 



Alien or casual. Very rare. 



G. Filton ; Herb. Bristol Musedm. On an old wall near 

 Granby Hill, Clifton ! Kingswood ! On a wall between 

 Horfield and Westbury ; Dr. Stephens. 



S. With V. Blattaria near Uphill, and also at Wins- 

 combe. VIII. 



