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PLANT-RECORDS FOR LAKE- vastus hoa. 
JOHN HENRY, 
Barrow-in-Furness. 
THE following plants, which have been kindly examined for me by 
Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, F.L.S., are, I am informed, not in the list for 
North—i.e., Pabe<T anciatitre: 
Sieh Ajacis Reichb. Alien, possibly an escape. Foxfield- 
in-Fur 
Gecunilies” eh sae Burm. Denizen probably. Furness 
Abbey. (Was there in 1871.—F. A. Lees 
Erodium moschatum L’Hérit. Denizen here ? Biggar Bank. 
Walney Island. 
Euphorbia portlandica L. Native. Walney Island. 
Rumex conglomeratus x obtusifolius. Native. Roose. 
ville aeatead 
est Lancashire Plants.—Fro examination of the Herbarium 
of Mr, ait F. Pickard, I am able to aa the two ‘ilies species to Mr. Henry’s 
list, given above. 
sr ae Viasat elodelos L. Near Hawes Water, Silverdale, 1881, Miss K. 
pte Fikes Miller. Near Silverdale, 1881, Miss K. P. The specimen 
looked rather like a hybrid, or perhaps is Z. wali t if so, probably introduced 
(and the Campanula for that matter) wi il about the roots o' - 
rubs, e Ww: same species at t of Leyburn Shawl 
quarries in N. Y. Many speci plants in stations of recent appearance 
observance, the Goodyera and Linnea of E hire cases i int, 
truly native in other localities, have n and are -_ gcc of so 
introduced into spots wherein they flourish, all over the 
of the factors in the sum of caren Distifbution which latter-day. field botanist’ 
have to take into account m more than the observers of o me. — 
F. A. Lees, March 19th, 18 a 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
The fifth part 3 oe fifth volume of the epee Transactions of the Linnean 
Want published last Dece mer is devoted to a paper by Messrs. Porn 
F.L.S. and “G. S. t, Ass.R.S.C., ‘On Some North American 
“ ies.” € memoir is vincent by seven plates from the piel of the 
junior author, A large number of the speoies and varieties mentioned are new, 
half of those me tinned 3 in the as fasion — so far unrecorded for North America. 
aan Ae oo by M eka Mie) hesee tt, F.L.S., with — of some 
botani ese am 
O 
Journal of Botany, in the preparation of which Me Bennett oe valuable help. 
il 1897. 
