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Sagifia jnariiima? Whinney-field bank by CuUercoats. 



Listera cordata. By the Picts' Wall, in Northumberland. 



Bryonia dioica. Near Darlington, all along the horseway 

 to Thornton. 



Helminthia echioides. Between Stockton and Norton. 



Centaurea Calcihapa. Between the Glass houses and Dent's 

 hole, nigh Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Lathyrtcs Nissolia. Same locality as the last, copiose. 



Chara hispida. In Hell Kettles, nigh Darlington. 



Ery7igium campestre. On the shore called Fryer's Goose, 

 near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Glaux 7naritima. Same locality as the last. 



Daphne laureola. By Thornton, in the bishopric of Durham. 



Anthriscus vulgaris. On mud-walls at Blackwell, in the 

 bishopric of Durham. 



Potentilla fruticosa. By Mickle Force, in Teesdale, 

 copiosissime. 



Reseda lutea. By Clifford's Fort, at Tinnemouth Castle. 



Senecio viscosus. About Sunderland. 



This list is the first substantial catalogue of the rare plants 

 from the North of England which we have, and contains the 

 first account of plants introduced by ballast. There is a letter 

 in Richardson's correspondence from Lawson, written the year 

 before his death, offering to meet him at Settle for a botanical 

 exploration. Besides this catalogue he wrote numerous con- 

 troversial religious works. The genus Lawsonia was named 

 by Linnaeus after another Lawson, a Scotchman. 



John Wilson, died 1751, was a native of Kendal. He was 

 a man in humble circumstances, according to various accounts 

 a stockinger, a shoemaker and a baker, who became an 

 enthusiastic botanist, and educated himself so that he became 

 a lecturer on botany, in which capacity he often visited New- 

 castle, where his book, a " Synopsis of British Plants in Mr. 

 Ray's Method," was published in 1744. It is an octavo of 

 272 pages, and contains a synopsis in English of all known 

 species, with the exception of the lower cryptogamia, grasses 



