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Notes — Flowering Plants. 



cent. ash. The berries are violently purgative, and contain 

 acids, sugar, pectin, tannin, etc., and it is especially note- 

 worthy, moreover, that the brilliant coral red of the epicarp, 

 that so cheers the festal soul at Christmas time, is not due 

 to carotin, but depends on the gradual but thorough oxidation 

 of the tannin which, being non-phlobaphenic, supplies as chro- 

 mogen an especially pure and brilliant pigment. 



NOTES— FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Schcenus nigricans in Lincolnshire. — It may interest Mr. Corbett to 

 hear that in low-lying bogs in Lincolnshire this plant is not very uncommon. 

 I have myself g-athered it in Crosby Warren and on Scotton Common, 

 and I believe in other like places. It is also recorded for Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 Cambridge, Bedford, Hunts, etc., in none of which counties can it occur at 

 any great height above sea level. It seem to me more likely that it has 

 been overlooked at Askern than that it has 'only lately come there,' as it 

 can hardly be called a conspicuous plant except by those who are as. 

 enthusiastic plant-hunters as Mr. Corbett is. Many, even if they saw it, 

 would say, ' one of the sedges,' and pass on. — W. Fowler, Liversedge, 3rd 

 September 1900. 



Interesting Finds in a Town Garden. — It is my misfortune or other- 

 wise'to live in the midst of a densely-populated town parish, the atmosphere 

 of which cannot be said to be particularly favourable to plant life. And yet, 

 in my town garden, of no great size, the following interesting species have 

 spontaneously made their appearance : — 



Solatium nigrum Linn. Panicum Crus-galli Linn. 



Stachys arvensis Linn. Setaria viridis Beauv. 



Polygonum aviculare Linn. Poa compressa Linn, 



var. rurivagum Jord. 

 The Panicum I have found to-day ; it is the first time I have made its 

 acquaintance. — W. Wright Mason, St. Mary's Parsonage, Bootle, Liver- 

 pool, 6th September 1900. 



Sedbergh Plants. — I have been teaching a few young ladies this 

 summer, including- some pupil teachers in elementary schools, etc., and they 

 (the Brigflatts Botanical Class) have noted this season the following plants, 

 some of which are aliens or casuals, but they are nearly all new to them and 

 interesting : — 



Thalictrum alpinum (Alpine Meadow Rue) was given to them by an 

 expert Alpine climber from an almost inaccessible ledge or crevice on the 

 grand old Cautley Crags. He also gave them at the same time Sedum fabaria 

 (Narrow-leaved Orpine). 



Sisymbrium orientale (Hare's Ear Mustard) was found on the railway near 

 Sedbergh Station. 



Hypericum elodes (Marsh St. John's Wort) is growing in our bogs on 

 Lon«rstone Fell. 



Geranium pyrenaicum (Pyrenean Crane's-bill) was seen in driving- by the 

 Lune, and a very fine specimen got from the road-side. 



Lathyrus sylvestris (Narrow-leaved Everlasting Pea) was growing among 

 the corn at Brigflatts ; it has insignificant flowers. 



Galeopsis ochroleuca (Yellow Downy Hemp Nettle) is a small but very 

 handsome plant, with its two long yellow flowers. 



Mentha gentilis (Bushy Red Mint) grows at the bottom of a wet hedge 

 bank, almost on the sandy road. 



Linum perenne (Perennial Flax), Polygonum fagopyrum (Buckwheat), 

 and Sedum reflextim (Crooked Stonecrop) were all growing- in or near an 

 old farmyard, — John Handley, Brigflatts, Sedbergh, 20th September 1900. 



Naturalist, 



