The Flora of Dewsbury and District. 289 



276. Raphanus landra Moretti. Waste ground, Dews- 

 bury and Horbury Bridge. 



331. Saponaria vaccaria L. Waste ground, Horbury 

 Bridge and Shepley Bridge. 



Native of oak woods in Asia Minor, and a very common 

 cornfield weed in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is 

 one of the most frequently introduced grain aliens in Britain ; 

 it occurs here also as a weed of cultivated ground, possibly 

 from the use of foreign seed (Dunn's ' Alien Flora of Britain, 

 1905,' p. 37). 



336d. SiLENE LATiFOLiA var. OLERACEA (Bor.). Waste 

 ground below cornmill, Shepley Bridge. This pretty nodding 

 laxifloral campion, is a variety of our British inflata, with less 

 swollen calyx. The Eastern race as it were, and where hitherto 

 found, as at Woolwich Arsenal, is rightly ' suspect ' as being a 

 foreigner (F. A. Lees). 



341. S. DICHOTOMA Ehrh. Waste ground, Mirfield. 



342. S. GALLiCA L. Calder bank, Shepley Bridge. The 

 name is a little doubtful (Lees). Mill waste heap, Batley Carr. 



344. S. QUiNQUEVULNERA L. Waste road-side, Mirfield. 

 A rare plant of the Channel Islands. Here a grain or grass- 

 clover seed brought casual from S. Europe. 



3g8&zs. Arenaria stellarioides Willd. Waste ground 

 by old Malt-kilns, Mirfield. ' A colonising alien from the 

 Caucasus and the Euxine, probably brought first to the Halifax 

 (in 1895) and later Elland and Mirfield riparian area.' (F. A. 

 Lees, ' The Naturalist,' p. 100, March, 1909). The writer 

 found it at Mirfield, as above in 1907-8-9. 



554. Trigonella ccerulea Ser. By malt-kiln, Mirfield 

 (Messrs. F. Buckley and A. Jessop). 



562. Medicago falcata L. Waste ground, Dewsbury 

 Mills, Shepley Bridge. 



622. Trifolium resupinatum L. Casual of grass-seed 

 origin. Old lime-kilns, Mirfield (Messrs. Buckley and 

 Jessop). 



625. T. SPUMOSUM L. Waste place by Sutcliffe's corn 

 mill, Mirfield. 



644. Lotus tetragonolobus L. By malt-kiln, Mirfield 

 (Messrs. F. Buckley and A. Jessop). 



658. Astragalus sesamens L. Malt-kiln waste ground,, 

 Mirfield. 



668. Ornithopus compressus L. Waste ground, Mir- 

 field. 



681. ViciA viLLOSA Roth. Waste ground, Shepley 

 Bridge. 



684. V. PSEUDO-CRACCA Bert. Waste ground, corn-mill,, 

 Shepley Bridge. 



(7b be continued). 



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