348 Notes on the Flora of Ribble- Craven. 



357) that this heather gentian still thrives on the slope up from 

 Clapham Station towards Keasden, at ' The Knotts.' 



Erinus alpinus, a singularly interesting coloniser, following 

 apparently upon the ' agger ' making labours of the Romans, 

 occurs in many places from Chatburn to Bolton-by-Bowland, 

 and appears to be increasing. First mentioned by Geo. 

 Bentham in his Handbook of British Plants — 4th edition of 

 1888, published just too late to be included in Dr. Lees' Flora 

 of West Yorkshire. Most of the Stations are just within the 

 South Lancashire boundaries, on natural rock faces left after 

 making bridges. Rumex scutatus of alien origin occurs with 

 it. 



Verbascum Thapsus, over disturbed soil surfaces, etc., on 

 Sannet Gill shales and grits. 



Linaria repens, still retains its hold in the masonry abutting 

 on Giggleswick Station and rail-bank, where I noted it first 

 about 20 years ago. Dr. Lees says it appears to be the striped, 

 erect form of repens L., equalling L. striata D.C., not the plant 

 of Oxfordshire cornfields ; perhaps brought from Arnside 

 with limestone or shingle-ballast, but now found further down 

 the line (Mr. Sturdy) ; anyway the first record for West 

 Yorkshire, whatever its category of denizenship. 



Veronica Buxbaumii (Tournefortii Gmelin). This agrestral 

 colonist of quite recent introduction to the country (first 

 known as British in 1829, Yorkshire, 1841), was pointed out 

 to me by Mr. Sturdy by the roadside, beyond Langcliffe from 

 Settle ; first record for Ribble. This stranger has been overrun 

 in its spread over the country by that remarkable ' pine-apple 

 Maithweed,' Matricaria suaveolens, first brought from Chili 

 with nitrates, within living memory, to become ubiquitous 

 to-day wherever manure and cultivation go. I only noted a 

 very little of it about Settle. 



Juniperis communis var. intermedia Nyman, on Moughton, 

 occurs in distinctly Ribble as well as Lune basin (also on 

 Giggleswick Scars) but uncertain whether var. or type. 



Polystichum Lonchitis (the Holly Fern) has been recently 

 found (Sturdy and Wilson) to be survivant still on at least 

 one of the higher Scars among talus over Settle in the direction 

 of Malham. I saw it there in August, some six or eight fine 

 plants ! 



Osmunda regalis, seen by Mr. H. H. Sturdy, near Rathmell 

 in one place ; no former record for Yorkshire Ribble. One 

 record in the Stonyhurst List for near Leagram. 



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The death is announced of Prof. Charles Latham, of the University of 

 Glasgow. He was trained at the Wigan School of Mines, and for nine 

 years had been director of Mining at University College, Nottingham. 



Naturalist, 



