SLATER : FLORA OF RIPON. "iSl 



1598. H. pratense. Meadow barley. Grass fields, very local, 



but usually in some abundance where it does occur. 

 Near Ripon, I only found it in a field near the north 

 bridge (Ripon park) ; and, with Miss Morton, in the 

 field under Mr. Tetley's house, by the river, at 

 Bridge Hewick. 



1599. H. murinum. Wall barley. Old walls and dry banks. 



Much rarer near Ripon than the last. My notes only 

 record it fi:om the Castle Hill, Richmond, with 

 Sclerochloa rigida. 

 1601. Nardus stricta. Mat-grass. Heaths and dry pastures, 

 rare. I have only found it on Hutton Moor and on 

 the hills beyond Masham ; Miss Morton records it 

 from Brimham Rocks. 



ACOTYLEDONES VASCULARES. 



1606. Pteris aquilina. Bracken. Woods and heaths, common. 



1608. Lomaria spicant. Hard fern. Woods, not very 



common. Fountains and Aldfield ; Hackfall. I must 

 raise my humble protest here against the Latinity of 

 the specific name of this plant. The London cata- 

 logue ought certainly not to lend authority to the con- 

 tinuation of such base-born words as " spicant " and 

 " ceterach," no matter what their priority, which are 

 neither Latin, Latinised Greek, nor anything else. 

 Babington very justly substitutes boreale for "spicant." 



1609. Asplenium Ruta-muraria. Wall-rue spleen-wort. 



Old walls, not uncommon. Especially abundant on 



the wall by the road side through Tanfield village, and 



at Fountains. 

 161 2. A. Trichomanes. Maiden-hair spleen-wort. Old 



walls and rocks, not uncommon. Fountains. 

 1616. A. Adiantum-nigrum. Black spleen-wort. Rocks 



and old walls. Knaresborough (Baines). 



