146 HODGSON : VICIA LUTEA AND OTHER RARE PLANTS. 
as Lathyrus sphericus. The blossoms in form appro 
closely to those of the pea than the ordinary vetchling, and 
yellow of two different tints. Three or four specimens of 
aphaca grew in a corner, stunted like all the preceding. 
has rarely been found in our county, and generally about 
About the centre of the gravel, where most elevated 
summer level of the river, grew some nice specimens of Aspam 
arvensis, which Hooker describes as ‘a casual in cornfields. 
than forty years ago, in my earlier botanical experience, I hi 
this species growing plentifully in a sandy cornfield on the | 
the little river Raugh (pronounced Roe), near my native ¥ 
Raughton Head, when I failed to establish its identity. AS 
in question has since remained in pasture, this early puzzle 
without solution until some four or five years since, whe in 
pany with Miss E. J. Glaister and her brother, we foun 
patch of ballast at Silloth, covered with a fair crop 
* woodruffe.’ —— 
Vicia varia, with weak straggling stems and very dark 
flowers, was in evidence all over the place. I was 
however, to find Circea alpina, and, on a second visit, 
common C. /utetiana. ‘These may have been brought do 
current of the river, as both species grow in great abundance 
lower slopes of Wythop Woods, along the edge of Basse! 
€. The most conspicuous plant of the group was 2 100 
of Enothera biennis var. grandiflora, an escape probably 
garden higher up the river, ; 
I must briefly describe the greatest find of the day. 
a plant nearly allied in appearance to the Cerastium group 
It grows about a foot high, of erect habit, stem branching $P 
and covered with dense short hairs. The flowers are axillary 
Situated at the extremity of a very slender hair-like footstalk 
an inch long. ‘The flowers are rosy or light pink at the 
petals, toning down to white at the base. Mr. Baker dest in’ 
follows :—‘ Looks like a Cerastium, but I have hunted for tm" 
m that genus,’ 
_ A second visit about a fortnight later revealed ™ 
_ including Afedilotus parviflora, Caucalis daucoides, Scant 
_ ‘Peneris (the two last in seed), and an alien es 
ae = Egilops triuncialis, goat’s face grass ; according ra 
_____'méeigenous to Germany. I have seen it averred to be the 
a cultivated wheat. This is just possible, though not very 
once gathered a closely allied species, .22. ovala, at 
