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White Force. It was discovered there by the Backhouses in 

 1852, and ten years later they met with it upon one of the 

 sugar Hmestone hillocks of the Cronkley plateau. 



Dianthus deltoides L. English type. Native. Area 3. 

 Range 100. This is known in one station only, a dry gravelly 

 place called the Coom, situated about half-a-mile south of Terring- 

 ton, where it was found by H. Ibbotson. D. barbatus and D. 

 plumarius are both upon record as plants of the Ainsty, but 

 they grow only where they have been planted in the grounds by 

 the Wharfe side above Thorpe Arch. 



Dianthus Armeria L. English type. Native. Area i. 

 Range o-ioo. Sandy bank at Skelton, July, 1862; H. Ibbotson. 



Saponaria officinalis L. English type. Denizen. Area 

 98.65432 I. Range o-ioo. By the Tees side at Dalton, 

 Worsall, and Yarm. On the castle bank at Richmond, and 

 along the Swale and Ouse in numerous places as far down as 

 York. On the castle hill at Scarborough ; also in many other 

 places in fields and u])on hedge-banks ; Crathorn, Hutton 

 Rudby, Kirklington, Northallerton, Kirkby Wiske, Thirsk, 

 Acomb, Malton, Strensall, Robin Hood's Bay, etc. Probably 

 indigenous in some of its stations, but no doubt introduced 

 in others. 



Saponaria Vaccaria L. Alien. Sent to me by Mr. Bean 

 from Scarborough, where it has once been found in a culti- 

 vated field. Corn-field between Thirsk and Woodend, 1876, 

 and with Vicia varia on Bagby Moor, 1886 ; W. Foggitt. 



Silene inflata Sm. British type. Native. Area general. 

 Range 0-300. Frequent upon dry banks and about road-sides 

 throughout the Lower Zone. Ascends VVensleydale to Hawes ; 

 J. Penival. S. puberula Jordan is not unfrequent. 



Silene maritima With. British type. Native. Submari- 

 time. Area 8.54. Range Coast-Level and 250-300. Rare with 

 us as a maritime plant. It has been met with in Coatham 

 Marshes and upon the sea-bank between Marske and Saltburn. 

 Inland it grows upon the Red Scar near Downholme, where it 



Aug. 1889. 



