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THE FLORULA OF BARE, WEST LANCASTER. 
F. ARNOLD LEES, M.R.C.S., 
Except Walney and the limestone south of Silverdale, the vice- 
county of West. Lancaster has been sadly neglected since the 
Rev. .E. F. Linton resided at Preston, from which it follows that 
the observations of a few days in early September (1899) made 
on the beach of the Morecambe estuary, strictly confined to the 
shore and a mile inland between Bare and Hest Bank, have 
some little value from the definite parochial limit, and the 
thoroughness with which the small field was investigated by 
_ the writer. The appended asterisk indicates the species that 
are adventive although naturalised; and the letters ‘N.C.R.’ 
stand for a new vice-county record for the Watsonian area 60 of 
Topographical Botany. . 
Clematis Vitalba.* Several fine plants about Bare, crowning 
and festooning Yews amongst other trees, but, of course, 
originally sown or planted. 
Adonis autummnalis.* Waste arable where iene ts operations 
at Bare have broken the ground ; and wit 
Meconopsis cambrica* about poultry-runs in rough field- 
corners: probably garden ground originally—the stations 
being doomed of bricks and mortar both species must soon 
disappear, as well as their companions, Figwort, Mugwort, 
Agrimony, and Burdock. 
Silene maritima. Several pebble banks between Bare and 
Hest Bank, accompanied by 
Honkeneya peploides, locally termed by rustic children ‘ Fat- 
grass ’—a term not in Britten and Holland’s classic Plant- 
- Name Dictionary. : 
Geranium purpureum Forster. N.C.R. This or a deep-red, 
: divaricate and prostrate form of the ubiquitous ‘ Stinking 
Bob,’ modified by environment, was noticed on a pebbly 
spit of foreshore north of Bare, growing with the ‘ Fat- 
grass’ and succulent great-headed Matricaria salina, hard 
by several spray-washed boulders medalled over with 
Parmelia parietina and other lichens. 
Ononis repens (inermis Lange). Here and there on the beach 
anks, wit 
Lotus crassifolius Pers., but neither abundant nor continuously. 
ber 1899. Or 
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