Report of the Meetings for 1894. 77 



(L.), and Stellaria Nemorum (L.) 



The historical incidents of the Chapel Woods were commented 

 on by the Eev. Mr Walker, who, in the absence of the 

 Eector, read papers prepared by him upon the Church and 

 Castle. He also read accounts of the Castle by Mr C. J. 

 Bates, as they appear in the Border Holds of Northumberland, 

 and by the Eev. Thomas Cox in Magna Britannia, (1720.) 



APPENDIX I. — Localities for Pimpinella magna (L.) 



It is recorded in Wallis's Northumberland, but the botanists of the 

 Winch and Thornhill period omitted those plants, which could not 

 be identified by specimens. Accordingly, in the Botanists' Guide, 

 Newcastle, 1805, Vol. i., p. 29, P. magna is noted as growing " In the 

 Chester Lane at High Barns, near Sunderland, co. Durham." Before 

 the 2nd volume appeared in 1807, the authors had secured an efficient 

 ally in Mr F. Scott, of whom we know nothing more than that his 

 botanic researches were in the vicinity of Hexham. He contributes 

 so many localities to the work that something ought to be known 

 about him, as well as several other contributors, who are now quite 

 Wgotten. He found P. magna "at West Dipton, near Hexham, 

 Northumberland." — Vol. ii., p. 5. 



Winch's Flora appeared in 1831, Newcastle, 4to., under the auspices 

 of the Nat. Hist. See. of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne ; and sums up the known localities, omitting Mr Scott's 

 — " In Chester Lane, at High Barns, near Sunderland, D. ; near 

 Hartlepool, D., J. Hogg, Esq"— and gives Wallis justice, "Under the 

 hedges at Fairflow and Long B,igge, near Nunwick, also on a bank 

 on the north-east side of the bridge at Barrasford, near Chipchase, N." 

 Wallis, 182— Flora, etc., p. 20. 



In 1867 the Northumberland and Durham Flora received a final 

 revise from the experienced skill of Dr George Tate and Mr J. G. 

 Baker, F.L.S., now of Kew. In the interval, Mr John Storey of 

 Newcastle had visited the Morpeth district. His specimens probably 

 perished with his collection of papers, having been unfortunately 

 burned. The following is the record : " About the Wansbeck at 

 Morpeth and Sheepwash — John Storey, (subsequently by J, S. Baker.) 

 In North Tynedale, at Long Rigge and Barrasford, discovered by 

 Wallis (1769), gathered by the (Tyneside) Club 1858. In Durham in 

 several places on the Magnesian Limestone about Sunderland and 

 Hartlepool." — New Flora of Northumberland and Durham, p. 178. 



Mr J. L. Luckley finds it at a "road past a blacksmith's shop at 

 Ashington." — Flora of Alnwick, p. 41. 



It thus appears that P. magna has been recognised as a Northumbria 

 Plant by authorities since 1769, more than 100 years. 



J. HARDY, 



