PECULIARITIES OF PLANT-DISTRIBUTION IN THE LEEDS DISTRICT. 71 
f the dry sand-loving species, Hrodium cicutarium and Geranium 
columbinum are absentees, whilst Spergularia rubra may be met with 
very sreanenbly.s on the millstone grit. Geranium sen is not un- 
common.’ It d be a very difficult matter r the common 
mugwort ieee six or seven es of Leeds, at ea that dis- 
tance, alike on sandstone and limestone, it seems almost ubiquitous in 
the hedgerows. Solanum nigrum, Lamium amplexicaule, and Cheno- 
podium rubrum are the most conspicuous nou-occurrences amongst the 
weeds. From our cornfields Thlaspi arvense, Lycopsts arvensis, and 
Lysimachia vulgaris and Nummularia, Sanguisorba officinalis, an 
Tansy ; yet scarcely a trace of inne nigra, Sium angustifolium, and 
Glyceria aquatica. 
In conclusion I may, perhaps, be allowed to instance as briefly as 
possible some few of what I consider ey species characteristic of our 
district ; species which will, I apprehend, be abse nt from the southern 
and western large town wns, and which in a grea septa seu tinsel us 
for iy poe somewhat long list of non-occurrences. 
Of the list of more striking Manchester plan given by Mr. 
Grindon, I a not know any that we lack. With us too the stately 
and soldier-like ‘‘ foxglove eaeagy guard our pea glens and 
quarries in exceeding abundance. On the limestone : 
becomes much scarcer. Campanula “atifolia shakes its splendid Le 
freely in ae aves in the calcareous district by Cam 
simachia nemorum. Lychnis diurna hid mostly abundant, tbl 
givesits name. Here the blooms are invariably a pale delicate pink— 
on the limestone, where it is erin always purple. Ranunculus 
s an om 
auricomus, sub-xerophilous too, _ 
n. the ‘gritstone it flourishes in even 
re@a, Sanicula, an 
ense, again, is a character weed in hilly stony 
pastures, 
on the land ie jot: to within a iene 
ata, carried down by the stream be found on the ‘low river- 
odor y 
banks toa few ek below Leeds, Phaash more abundant above the 
ther 
tion in ve y places some twelve miles only from the ‘ 
ferring the hacks of beech woods, along with Convallaria mapalis and 
