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Hyssopus officinalis Linn. Alien (Europe and temperate Asia) 

 garden escape. N. Div. 1. Epworth, 18th September 

 1899; C. C. Bell (F. A. L. ). 



Iris foetidissima Linn. Alien? N. and S. Divs. 3. 14. 16. 

 Herb. Brit. Mus. Perhaps the record for Div. 14 is not 

 this species ; I have not seen a specimen. 



Iris spuria Linn. Alien (Europe; and Wood's ' Tourists' 

 Flora' says Elne, Narbonne, Metz). N. Div. 11. Hut- 

 toft, 1894-1899 ; F. M. Burton. I believe it also grows on 

 a bank in Div. 12, at Friskney, July 1879, Dr. Burgess ; but 

 I have seen no specimen. /. spuria certainly grows in 

 several spots at Huttoft. I may be wrong in thinking this 

 is a European species at all, as Linn., Bertol., Pall., and 

 Reichb. have each named a separate species spuria, and 

 there is much confusion. The presence of this species 

 growing wild in Lincolnshire is as difficult to account for 

 as E. portlandica above, for it is never grown in gardens, 

 and as far as I can learn has never been used medicinally. 

 It can hardly be bird sown. I have no proof that even the 

 Anatidce take Iris seeds ; but it may have been planted by 

 a long-forgotten naturaliser. 



fsatis tinctoria Linn. Alien (Europe ; the East). My friend 

 the late J. Cordeaux told me that two plants of this species 

 came up and flowered at Great Cotes (N. Div. 4) some 

 years ago, after the removal of some earth in making 

 a footpath. It was cultivated near Grimsby and Boston 

 from very early times. 'The 'wads,' or outlying farm- 

 steads of Great Cotes parish, are said to take their name 

 from the Woad, once cultivated in patches around them.' — 

 J. Cordeaux, 



Lagurus ovatus Linn. Alien (Southern Europe ; Northern 

 Africa). N. Div. 4. Lace by, August 1899; A.. Smith. 

 N. Div. 11. Skegness, 1870; Rev. W. W. Mason. In 

 both cases garden escapes or outcasts. 



Lamium maculatum Linn. Alien (Europe ; the East).- Garden 

 escapes or outcasts. N. and S. Divs. 2.7. 10. 11. 15. 



Lathyrus Cicera Linn. ( erythrinus Presl.). Alien (Europe ; 

 the East). N. Div. 6. Lincoln, West Parade Brick Pits, 

 1899; H. M. W. Hinchliff. S. Div. i; v Lincoln, by 

 Fossdyke, 1898; Sneath and Peacock (F. A. L). 



Leucojum aestivum Linn. Planted alien ? (Europe; the East), 

 N. Div. 8. Calcethorpe Wood, May 1897; Miss Lewin. 



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