142 Aliens and Introduced Plants of the Upper Hodder. 
Convolvulus sepium. Flowers white. A garden weed. 
Solanum nigrum. Not common, i ‘4 
Veronica agrestis ¥ a 
V. polita * >: 
V. Buxbaumi, a wes 
Atriplex angustifolium. oe Z 
A. hastata. ne Ap 
Euphorbia Helioscopia. 7 o 
E. Peplus. a » 
Avena fatua. Once only. ie 
3. GARDEN Escapes. Probably orginially cultivated. 
Aquilegia vulgaris. Hedgebank, near a garden. 
Berberis vulgaris. Possibly nature. 
Chelidonium majus. Near an old garden. 
Brassica oleracea. Garden cabbage‘ gone wild.’ In the above- 
mentioned old Pheasantry, Two plants. 
Hesperis matronalis. Occasional, 
Armoracia rusticana. Near buildings. 
Viola cornuta. 302 Oxford List. Hedge-bank, i912. 
[The Pyrenean garden bloom.—F.A.L.] 
Ribes. nigrum. River bank. 
Sempervivum tectorum. On old buildings. Frequent; not 
“escaped ’ in a real sense, but hand-planted and forgotten. 
Saxifraga Geum. One locality only some distance from a 
garden. 
Chaerophyllum satwum. Planted at Knowlmere more than 
thirty years ago; still appearing as a garden weed. 
Peucedanum Ostruthium. Surviving as a weed in an old garden. 
[Used to be grown for use in cattle pharmacy]. 
Polemonium coeruleum. River banks; sometimes blue, but 
usually white. 
Mentha viridis. Garden mint. In a hedge bank. 
Lysimachia vulgaris? River bank; a wash-down. from 
Knowlmere. Corolla glabrous. 
Galanthus nivalis. Originally planted. 
4. CASUALS introduced into a rough pasture near Newton 
with a ‘ top-dressing ’ of ‘ Black Wheat Dust.’ 
The pasture in question being very ‘ benty’ and poor, 
during the ‘ back-end’ ef 1911 the farmer applied a dressing 
of 3 or 4 sacks of ‘ wheat dust,’ 7.e., the screenings of wheat 
obtained from corn-millers, in order to induce the cattle to 
eat up the coarse grass. The desired result was obtained, 
the ‘ bents’ being eaten down to the roots, in the patches where 
the ‘ dust’ was thickly applied. During the summer of I912 
the aliens given below appeared. Dried specimens of all 
(with the exception of Sinapis arvensis, Centaurea Cyanus 
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