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ALIENS AND INTRODUCED PLANTS OF THE 
UPPER HODDER. 
M. N. PEEL, 
Knowlmere Manor. 
THE upper portion of the Hodder valley is hardly a likely place 
for Casuals and Weeds of Cultivation. It is a grass and moor- 
land country, now entirely without plough-land; the only 
cultivated spots being the gardens, which are few and far 
between. 
I. THOROUGHLY NATURALISED with little 
fear of eradication. 
Trifolium hybridum. Seeds introduced about the year 1904 
probably with imported hay. 
Ribes grossularia. Very Common; in hedges and woods. 
Ribes rubrum. Hedges and river banks. 
Aigopodium Podagraria. Near buildings. 
Tanacetum vulgare. Newton Village Green. 
Linaria Cymbalaria. Old walls near gardens. 
Mimulus luteus. In the Hodder and its tributaries. Very 
common. 
Chenopodium Bonus- Henricus. River banks and roadsides. 
Polygonum Bistorta. A weed in damp meadows. 
Humulus Lupulus. One colony, roadside hedge, increasing. 
Eptpactis violacea. Probably introduced with young trees a 
century ago. 
2. WEEDS OF CULTIVATION. Roadsides, waste places and 
gardens. 
Sinapis arvensis. Rubbish heaps, etc. 
Sisymbrium officinale. Garden Weed, very rare. 
Cardamine hirsuta. Garden weed, Knowlmere. 
teyelaigs Gratings. In an old Pheasantry. Introduced with 
1s NORTE pheasant food presumably. I912. 
Vicia angustifolia 
Linum usitatissimum. Ina pasture where pheasants had been 
reared the previous year. 
Matricaria Parthenium. Rubbish heaps and roadsides. Rare. 
M. Chamomilla? Roadside. One plant. IgII. 
Senecio sylvaticus var. auriculatus. In the above-named old 
Pheasantry. Numerous, 1912. Auricles of upper leaves 
expansive at their insertion in stem. 
Sonchus asper. A form with rounded auricles, flat, reddish or 
dull green lobed leaves with short. teeth, occurs as a 
garden weed. The apparently truly wild plant of Upper 
Hodder has rounded auricles, and waved shining green 
lobed leaves with spiny teeth. 
1913 Mar. 1, 
