70 PECULIARITIES OF PLANT-DISTRIBUTION IN THE LEEDS DISTRICT. 
sand, C. officinale is, I fancy, not th mmon plant it is 
often considered. It is very widely distributed, and sporadically is 
occasional in most counties, but inland occurs nowhere in the ex- 
ive abundance in which I have found it on the sand-hills at Irelet 
ar Barrow-in-Furness, at Saltfleet in Lincoln, and Southport in 
Lancashire. Hordeum pratense, too, prefers the sandy pastures we 
near the sea, but in 1870 I noticed it on the saline drift below 
Clent in Worcestershire in some ple 
r t ‘ xifraga 
vridactylites, Draba verna, and in a lesser degree Arabis Thaliana, are 
either altogether wanting or singularly rare wi omparison 
r more 
8. 
Aquatic and palustral plants as a rule are plentiful and well 
represented. The only commoner damp-loving species I can call to 
es. 
Amongst the more common inhabitants of dry banks and fields, 
Ranunculus hirsutus and Trifolium arvense are noticeable as quite un- 
known m campestre rare. Cerastiwm semideca 
nown, and Lepid rum and 
Coronopus Ruellii 1 never met with in the West Yorkshire distric 
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