302 Lees: The Florula of Bare, West Lancaster, 
Veronica Anagallis. Brook, Bare. 
Linaria Cymbalaria.* Old walls, Bare. 
_ Mentha sativa var. rivalis.. N.C.R. . By the Lancaster Canal, 
south of Hest Bank, with a bushier, taller, red-stemmed 
mint of the saéva section, which most probably is 42. rubra 
Sm., but as it was on the further bank of the canal I could 
not get to it. On the tow-path side, where the herbage 
was much trodden and beaten down, I found only a red- 
stemmed subglabrous form, with long runners. At the 
water-edge grew also, fine and handsome, the English 
lovely picture, both are on record already for the vice- 
unt 
county. 
Lycopus europeus. Gipsywort. In several places. 
Iris Pseudacorus L. Yellow Flag. Marshes and pool-sides, 
frequent. Mentioned here only for its extraordinary rustic 
name. The seed clubs, at this date opening lip-like and 
revealing the (as yet) ivorine seed squares within, are 
called (so the urchins told me) thereabout ‘Eyeteeth’ or 
*Teatheads.’ Boys gather the full-grown green but hard— 
triangulate pods and pit one against another in a war game, 
chestnuts perforated and slung on a piece of whipcord. 
Sparganium simplex. Bare brook. 
Sparganium ramosum,. Frequent. The caltropsian burr-fruits 
of both these are styled ‘Wiskers,’ or ‘Whiskers’ by the Bare 
-boys, and a similar game-use is made of them. I never 
heard either of these names in any other county, and 
Britten has neither in his book, before alluded to. 
Elodea canadensis.* In the canal south of Hest Bank, ‘less | | 
common than it used to be,’ I was told. Is this aquarium 
outcast now again on the decline in this country ? 
Juncus diffusus Hoppe. N.C. R. Three or four clumps of this 
hybrid in a marsy pasture near a turkey-run, south of Hest 
Bank ; /. effusus near but not /. glaucus. 
Juncus obtusiflorus Ehrh. N.C.R. In a bed of Arundo Phrag- 
mites, by a brook, near the L. & N.-W. Rail. line, north of 
Bare. A few luxuriant stems (3 feet high) only. 
Scirpus incurs L. N.C.R. Noted in one place only, by the 
Marestail duck-pool at the back of Bare neg, With it 
grows Eleocharis alas hee. 
DAN ROS IEL ANA 
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