Lees : British a)id Alien Plant-Lists. 



maybe. Agrimonia Eiipatoria var. sepium, Breb. is a tall- 

 growing somewhat glandiilose race affecting bnshy places on rich 

 sandy soils, which, though single nutted in the burr fruit, is 

 liable to be mistaken for A. odorata. We have either it or true 

 odorata in the Skirethorns and Sedbergh areas — both quite 

 possibly. Eupatorinm cannabinum, var. indivisum, D.C. (?) 

 with a nearly entire leaf has occurred to Mr. P. F. Lee, near 

 Dewsbury. Myosoiis dissitiflora, Baker, a bright-blue scattered 

 flow^ered forget-me-not, perhaps haiUng from Switzerland, but 

 much horticultivated of late, is being sown in ' wild ' pleas- 

 aunces, and may well confound collectors in doughs and by 

 water below gardens. It does not branch and straggle, so 

 much at a late stage as M. silvatica— young, its corollas tend 

 towards emargination of the divisions and so acquire a starry 

 appearance. It were well also to know that there is a squat 

 farvifiora, Meyer — form or variety of M. silvatica, the colour 

 less turquoise, more concentrated (as if by reason of the smaller 

 area to dye), and the hooked hairs on the calyx less numerous 

 (lower structural development ? ), which is liable to be confused 

 with the Ben Lawers' M. pyrenaica, Pourr. (rupicola, E. B. 

 alpestris, S.) that, recorded for the hmestone talus of Micklefell 

 by Backhouse in the Fifties of last century, has never been 

 gathered, and verified as to name for many, many years : 

 indeed, I have never seen specimens assertedly gathered in 

 Yorkshire, and fear a pilgrimage to the Lunedale Shrine would 

 end in disillusion. Erinus alpinus, L., as Benthami stated in the 

 last edition of his Handbook, too, is naturalised and persistent 

 on the line of the Roman Wall, north of Clitheroe, about 

 Rimington ; was seen on rocks by the railside in 1890, and this 

 year in plenty by Pickard, yet it finds no place in the new 

 London Catalogue. Of course, it may be said Estrays or Bird- 

 sown Foreigners from our shrubberies, are alike of no moment ; 

 but they are imiportant in one sense : from the first, floras have 

 been built up by all sorts of natural accidents, they all 

 had to have a beginning, and find their nidus and chance 

 of continuing existence. The successes differ only in a point 

 of age : w^hy not recognise an acclimatised Jew as well 

 as a Gentiie ? 



Some needed substitutions of Name — as to fact — have been 

 made in these catalogues apart from the ' priority ' principle. 

 Lycium ' barbarum ' — (the thorny Africander) becomes L. 

 chinense of Miller, of garden-dictionary fame, who described 



Naturalist, 



