300 Lees: The Florula of Bare, West Lancaster. 
Prunus fruticans Weibe. N.C.R. (Perhaps this equals var. 
b. macrocarpa Wallr.). The eas yellow-green leaved 
Sloe. One or two bushes in thic near canal south of 
Hest Bank. ‘This might pass for clip insititia, the wild 
Bullace, but it was only in plum very sparingly. 
Rubus rusticanus Merc. was the vastly preponderant Bramble 
in the hedges of the narrow field ‘slypes’ or lanes through 
the pastures, but now and then by dikes or on earth-banks 
the writer noticed Rubus rhamnifolius, R. radula, R. coryli- 
folius, and R. cesius. 
Spirza Ulmaria var. denudata Hayne. N.C.R. This nude 
form of the white under-leaf Queen of the Meadow was | 
noted to occur at intervals for over half a mile on the west © 
bank of the Lancaster Canal north of Bare. It is a less- 
robust plant than the silver leaved type, and flowered here 
as elsewhere only sparingly. It usually grows zm the water 
not in peat-wet soil, and may be more frequent than the 
sparing records (eight or nine counties} would indicate. 
The early leaves of the type even, springing up through the 
standing fluid of a springtime ditch are unfelted I have 
noticed. 
Hippuris vulgaris. N.C.R. In several plashes and muddy 
+hedge bottoms about Bare. I was told a curiously-distorted 
notion about this by a farmer-like man, who watched me 
gazing at the serried ranks in the water. He gravely 
informed me that it was called Marestails, because it only 
grew in water wherein ‘mares, but I think horses, too, had 
staled’—that. is, made water! I objected that there were 
‘ Horsetails’ as well. ‘Yes,’ he admitted, ‘and some on 
‘em calls it that, I’ve heard, tew,’ or a saving phrase to 
similar effect. 
Lythrum Salicaria. Frequent by drains, and the Lancaster 
Canal south of Hest Bank. 
Cornus sanguinea. In hedge, Hest Bank. 
Sium erectum. Brook, Bare Lane. 
Tragopogon minor. Sea banks, 
Carduus tenuiflorus, with 
Carlina vulgaris very sparingly on the sandier banks of the 
beach. 
Filago germanica. N.C.R. A form approaching spathulata he 
seen sparingly on a hen-run near Bare, where the earth: had 
been much Geo e up. 
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