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865. Polemonium casruleum. Jacob's ladder. Leckby 



Carr (Plues) ; white form near Fountains (Mrs. 

 Berkeley). 



866. Convolvulus arvensis. Lesser convolvulus. Atrouble- 



some weed. 



867. C. sepium. Greater convolvulus. A more troublesome 



weed. 



871. Cuscuta Epithymum. Common dodder. Made its 

 appearance in a field near Ripon North Bridge some 

 years ago, where it was noticed by Mr. Lees (1. c), 

 Miss Morton (who gave me specimens), and others. 

 Has now disappeared again. 



873. Solanum Dulcamara. Woody night-shade. Stream 

 sides and damp places, common. 



875. Atropa Belladonna. Deadly night-shade. Fountains 



(F, A. Lees, 1. c.) but intermittently ; Knaresborough, 

 1 88 1, in damp places under the rocks. Mrs. Berkeley 

 saw it there the same year as the writer. 



876. Hyoscyamus niger. Hen-bane. Recorded by 



Lees (1. c.) from Laver district ; used to groAV at 

 Bishopton Close, but is now certainly extinct there, as 

 I watched the spot for three consecutive years. 

 Datura Stramonium. Thorn-apple. This alien 

 suddenly appeared in 1881 in some abundance in a 

 potato ground at the back of one of the houses in 

 Ripon Market Place stretching towards Skellgate. 



877. Verbascum Thapsus. Great mullein. Waste ground, 



occasional. Ure Banks near Masham ; roadside, 



Hutton Moor ; Fountains ; Wickliffe (Plues). 

 880. V. nigrum. Black mullein. Near Robin Hood's Hill, 



Studley (Miss Morton). 

 884, Scrophularia balbisii. Water figwort. By the Ure, 



but not abundant. In small quantity in a small stream 



near How Hill. 



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