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WEST LANCASTER INDIGENES. 



F. ARNOLD LEES, M.R.C.S., 



Leeds. 



Recently, going- over some vouching- specimens of plants 

 collected in 1887 by Mr. Alfred Wilson, and sent for notification 

 in a report of the now defunct Record Club (never published), 

 I find some important species whose localities are not, I believe, 

 in print. These form a fitting- supplement to my notes for the 

 same Vice-county (60), found in another place. 



Drosera anglica. Cockerham Moss, August 1887. 



Galium uliginosum. Between Borwick and Yealand Conyers, 

 July 1887. 



Thrincia hlrta DC. Banks, near the sea, between Pilling- and 

 Cockerham, 1887. 



Carduus heterophyllus. Swampy wood by stream, Lower 

 Salter, Roeburndale, 1887. 



Polygonatum multiflorum I Native (unlike the circumstances 

 under which it occurs in lowland woods) in rocky, lime- 

 stone-soil woods at Yealand Storrs, June 1887. 



Rhynchospora alba. Cockerham Moss. 



Carex litnosa. Cockerham Moss, August 1887. 



Triticum caninuml Roeburndale river-side. 



All the above eight are New Vice-county records. 



Ranunculus submersus Hiern. Pool near Silverdale (on lime- 

 stone), May 1888. Tr/c/ioft/iy/hts-Yike, truly, in aspect, but 

 tassels, flower- and seed-heads rather too bulky ; and it is 

 more than probable this would be found to produce hetero- 

 phyllan floating-leaves later in the year. May is a bad 

 month for collecting nameable Batrachian Ranunculi. 



Actaea spicata L. Limestone rock-ledge on the almost per- 

 pendicular side of one of the 'Pot-Holes' on Leek Fell, 

 altitude about 1,200 feet. Quite out of reach, being about 

 50 feet below the level of the moor. None seen nearer the 

 surface (it likes shelter, and in quite exposed situations 

 will die out. It is probably bird-sown in all the crevices, 

 etc., wherein it grows on tree-bare pavements like that at 

 Malham ; in one sense a relic of a long gone silvan 



1900 January 3. 



