MYRRHIS — VIBURNUM. 313 



rise amongst the hills, and that is in a field at Sowerby near 

 Thirsk. By the Esk at Whitby it grows side by side with some 

 of the characteristically Maritime species. I have seen it at 

 Coxwold and Boltby, and it occurs in the Howardian tract 

 in several places. With us its nearest geographical allies are 

 Crepis paludosa, Trollius eiiropceiis and Stellaria nemo rum. 

 P.S. — Recent experience of how readily this spreads spon- 

 taneously makes me much less confident now that it is a Native 

 than I was in 1863. 



Viscum album L. English type. Native. Area 6. Range 

 50. In the Ainsty in the woods about Nun Appleton. Apple- 

 trees on Steeton Hall Farm ; W. Whitwell. Very fine on an 

 apple tree in our orchard in Feliskirk Lane near Thirsk, 

 doubtless planted ; W. Foggitt. Formerly found upon a crab- 

 tree at Sowerby near Thirsk. 



Sambucus nigra L. British type. Native. Area general. 

 Range 0-450. Common in woods and hedges in the low 

 country. Frequent in the aboriginal dale woods, and clearly 

 indigenous at 450 yards upon the Main Limestone Scars of 

 Copperthwaite Moor near Reeth, with Ivy, Holly, and Yew. 



Sambucus Ebulus L. English type. Native. Area 

 98765432. Range 0-300. Clearly indigenous in, at any 

 rate, some of its stations within our limits. Thickets and stream- 

 sides ; about the Magnesian Limestone at Piercebridge and 

 Thorp Arch, and in the Central Valley at Melsonby, Leeming, 

 Leckby, Hutton Conyers, Hilton (near Yarm), Otterington, 

 Sigston, etc. Small wood above Leyburn Shawl ; /. Percival. 

 Quarry at Birdforth and hedges adjoining, abundant ; W. 

 Foggitl. It grows with Actcea spicata and Rttbtis saxatilis in 

 the aboriginal woods of Beckdale; and occurs also on the Castle 

 Hill at Scarborough, in the Esk district at Ellerby, and in the 

 Howardian tract at Bransby. 



Viburnum Opulus L. British type. Native. Area 

 general. Range 0-300. Frequent in woods and hedges through- 

 out the lower zone. It is not unfrequent in the aboriginal dale 



Oct. 1889. 



