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the English denizen, which is -anarmed : its common name 

 ' Tea Tree ' points its aborigin — ' far Cathay.' Rosa ' ruhigi- 

 nosa ' sinks before the practically-contemporaneous R. Eglan- 

 teria, the sweetbriar so very aptly and universally known as 

 the Eglantine. This should be the immortal Linne's Crown of 

 Thorns, seeing how successfully sentiment and the poets have 

 made current the coin he minted. A last example, the well- 

 established ' monkey-flower,' hardy, and everywhere in the 

 York dales increasing through water-carriage, which has 

 hitherto borne unchallenged the title Mimulus luteus, Linn, 

 now appears unanimously in our three lists as 71/ . Langsdorfii, 

 Donn ex Sims, Botan. Magaz., tab. 1501 (1812), as the Linnean 

 luteus was an aggregate nam.e including other North American 

 sub-species not from Oregon ; Druce gives ' Unalaska ' as its 

 aboriginal country. 



Omissions from both of the lists are surprisingly few ; al- 

 though probably every season's flora trove, from the woollen 

 mill ' tips ' of Calder Vale to, the malting kiln rejectamenta 

 3^ards of Mirfield, Selby and Leeds, would yield another or two. 

 Just as an example — not a full list, I will, to finish up with, give 

 a score or so of those species missed by Druce or Dunn. vSome 

 of them are in print in the Hahfax Flora of 1904, others I have 

 knowledge of myself for Yorkshire. Tetracme quadricornis, 

 Bunge, the slug-horn podded Cress ; Arenaria stellarioides , Willd. 

 (Stellaria Arenaria, L.) ; Cousinia tenella, Fisch and Mey, 

 Halifax, '90-'93 ; but this perhaps connotes the Moroccan 

 Amherhoi, 344 of Druce's List ; Scahiosa succisa x Columbaria 

 (Derbyshire). Viburnum lantanoides, Mhx, the Hobble-bush 

 of New England, often planted, spreading by self ' layering ' as 

 Clematis or Ribes will do, and several times reported as the 

 south-native V. Lantana, which it is very like in facies, tho' 

 not so mealy, but it may be told from, by the clothing of the 

 leaf veins underside, the stalks, etc., with tufts of scurfy rust- 

 colored down. Pernettya mucronata, Gaudich., bird-sown in 

 a rough heathy field in Crimsworth Dene, Caldervale (Flo. 

 Halifax, App.). Volvulus sepiuw., var. incarnata — often culti- 

 vated, and once out-cast, making good its footing anywhere. 

 Arnebia echioides, D.C. (a yellow flowered borragine). Veronica 

 digitata, Vahl — a grain alien. Plantago tenui flora, Waldst. 

 (Wool alien). Lister a ovata, f. quadrifolia, mihi, (published 

 in ' Naturalist,' Feb. 1894) ; and Carex brizoides, L. 

 (Fountains Abbey ! Lees Herb, at Bradford — whatever its grade 



1908 September i. 



