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SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF 

 DEWSBURY AND DISTRICT. 



By the Latf. P. FOX LEE, 



With the object of bringing up-to-date this district's records of 

 the flowering plants, ferns and charas, the following Second 

 Supplement to the Flora of Dewsbury and Neighbourhood is 

 given : — 



The Flora was published in the ' Botanical Transactions ' 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Vol. L, 1877-1888, pp. 

 225-248, and the First Supplement at pp. 251-264*. 



As intimated when the Flora first appeared, it must be 

 understood that the soil of the district, consisting of Coal 

 Measure Clays and Shales, is geologically not an ideal one for 

 very many of the rarer native British plants. Several of the 

 streams, too, and their marshy margins are not so inviting to 

 plant life as doubtless they would be in former times, yet the 

 total number of wildings now known is nearly eight hundred. 



The plant names entered iji this -Supplement with the 

 numbers preceding them are those of the Oxford List of British 

 Plants, 1908, by Mr. G. Claridge Druce ; a division has been 

 made of the indigenous species and the aliens ; a few new 

 localities for the rarer plants of the district have been given, 

 with several corrections of the names and other details in 

 previous lists. 



The aliens recorded by Messrs. F. Buckley and A. Jessop, 

 have been verified by Mr. S. T. Dunn, B.A., F.L.S., of Kew. 



I desire again to offer my grateful thanks to Mr. J. G. 

 Baker, F.R.S., of Kew, Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon, 

 and Mr. F. Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S., of Leeds, for much kindly 

 help in the determination of critical species. 



The additional localities are as follows, namely : — Berberis 

 vulgaris, shrubbery, Lower Hopton ; Carpimis Behilus, Taxus 

 baccata and Ruscus aculeatiis also flourish in the district as' 

 planted specimens only . 



Barbarea verna Asch. {praecox Br.). Sandy wayside 

 near Overton. 



Stellaria neglecta Weihe. Shady bank of Coxley Dam, 



Malva moschata L. Abundant in a rough, undrained 

 pasture, Haigh House near Thornhill Edge. 



Impatiens parviflora D.C. River Calder banks, Mir- 

 field, Ravensthorpe to Dewsbury. Quite naturalised. 



Viola odorata. Hedge-bank, Carlinghow (J. A. E. 

 Stuart & P. Fox Lee). 



Ulex Gallii Planch. The autumn flowering species of 

 Furze. Abundant on the steep declivity of Thornhill Edge. 



Genista tinctoria, a relic of the older flora of the district, 

 Heybeck. 



Naturalist, 



