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788. Senecio saracenicus L. Broad-leaved Ragwort. 

 Canal-side, Mirfield, naturalized (T. H. Bartlam). 

 'Soothill Wood,.Batley ; Neville (1873), Y. Nat. Rec, 

 220,' vide 'The Flora of West Yorkshire,' p. 293. 

 I have never seen it in this wood. 



800. Carduus crispus L. Welted Thistle (distinctly the 

 var. acanthoides, with larger flower-heads, bracts with 

 a stout spine, and fruit pale brown, glabrous, granulate, 

 with an angled crown). Waste ground near Horbury 

 Railway Station (H. T. Soppitt and P. F. Lee). 



817. Centaurea scabiosa L. Hard-heads. Dry pasture 

 bank, Horbury (W. Rushforth). 



To follow 818. Centaurea melitensis L. {=^collind). 

 Star Thistle. Corn-field, Thornhill Lees. ' Casual, 

 introduced with grain or wool from South Europe .... 

 occurring with increasing frequency.' See ' The Flora 

 of West Yorkshire,' p. 284. 



863c. Hieracium vulgatum var. rubescens Backh. 

 Storr's Hill, Ossett. 



872. H. umbellatum L. Whitley; Hudd. Nat. Hist. Vide 

 ' The Flora of West Yorkshire,' p. 311. 



882c. Taraxacum officinale var. palustre DC. This 

 moorland variety of the common Dandelion with 

 almost entire leaves, deep red leaf-veins and stems, 

 and broad outer involucral bracts, seems to be the 

 prevailing form in a moist undrained pasture. Hunger- 

 hills (occurring with Genista tindoria, Pedicularis 

 sylvatica, etc.). 



920. Erica tetralix I>. Cross-leaved Heath. Stocks Moor, 

 in one place only (H. T. Soppitt and P. F. Lee). 



940. Hottonia palustris L. Water Violet. Local and 

 rare. Several plants in a sluggish brook, Horbury 

 (W. Rushforth). 



952. Lysimachia nummularia L. Creeping Jenny. Herb- 

 Tuppence. ' Batley ; G. Roberts ; vide ' The Flora 



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