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I. Plants which are exotics, or foreign to our island. 



1st. Mr. Winch has given the annexed catalogue of forty- 

 seven " Exotic Plants gathered on the Ballast-hills by the shores 

 of the rivers Tyne and Wear :'' — 



Blitiim virgatum. Lavatera trimestris. 



Phalaris paradoxa. Pisum Ochrus. 



Bromus Madritensis. Ornithopus compressus. 



Convolvulus tricolor. Echium Italicum. 



Hyoscyaraus albus. Scorpiurus vermiculatus. 



aureus. Vicia Benghalensis. 



Solanum Lycopersicum. cordifolia. 



Tordylium Syriacum. Trifoliura Indicum. 



Cuminum Cyminum. Messanense. 



Apium Petroselinum. elegans. 



Reseda odorata. Medicago prostrata. 



fruticulosa. coronata. 



alba. rigidula. 



Euphorbia tithymaloides. Scolymus maculatus. 



spinosa. Chrysanthemum Italicum. 



Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Anthemis tomentosa. 



faleatum. mixta. 



gloraeratum. Valentina. 



Argemone Mexicana. Centaurea Galactites. 



Nigella arvensis. Calendula officinalis. 



Damascena. Cannabis sativa. 



Ranunculus muricatua. Atriplex hortensis. 



Lepidium sativum. Salix acutifolia. 

 Alyssum incanum. 



2nd. Mr. Norman's foreign plants which are not included in 

 Mr. Winch's catalogue are* : — 



Fumaria micrantha. Polygonum mrivagum (Jordan), 



Sinapis Schkuhriana (Reich.). East Hartlepool. 



Melilotus leucantha. — — microsperraum (Jordan). 



Petroselinum sativum (Hoffm.). Stockton and Seaham. 



arenastrum (Jor.). Seaham. 



3rd. Mr. Lawson's foreign plants which are not given in either 

 Mr. Winch's or Mr. Norman's lists are only from the ballast 

 of the two Hartlepools ; — 



Cheiranthus incanus. Centaurea orientalis, 



Hesperis matronalis. Sclerochloa dura. 



Coronilla varia. Zea Mays. 



Galega officinalis. Eschscholtzia Californica, 



Gypsophila paniculata. Gazania splendens. 



4th. The foreign plants which I have noticed are : — 



Scolymus maculatus. North of Old Hartlepool. 

 Iberis umbellata. Port Clarence. 



* I think it unnecessary to repeat in these lists many other species that 

 generally occur in all the ballast-mounds, or those exotic plants which 

 have been already given. 



