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10 to T. The sunny bank to the shady side of a road running 

 east and west in nearly the same proportion. On sandy soils 

 it seems to get away from the villages to a greater distance 

 than on clays, but, to a certain extent, the rabbit may explain 

 this. It extends from Cadney village along hedge and ditch 

 banks on road sides as far as the Sandy Glacial Gravel extends 

 in any direction. It is found in bushy ground in old quarries and 

 gravel pits, and on the decaying mud capping of limestone walls. 

 It is exterminated by stock in pasture, unless it is protected 

 by Urtica dioica or by the fouling of the ground by rabbits. It 

 is apparently never found in meadow. It is even sometimes 

 eaten by cows when the much-loved Lamuim alhiim growing 

 beside it remains untouched. It would seem all the same to 

 be taken as a corrective or relish rather than as food. It may 

 be rarely found far awa}^ from villages in the hedges of tilth. 

 It is, however, found so rarely growing in open, that it would 

 almost appear to be a shade species of bushy ground 



Apply the following common Botanical Categories to it. 

 Followers of : — 



1. Man. 



2. Cultivation. 



3. Commerce (the unusual flora of railways, canals and 



mills, etc., being so classed). 



Frequenters of : — 



4. Pasture. 



5. Meadow. 



6. Woodlands (open, close, old or new). 



7. Hedges (distinguishing between roadside, grassland, 



and tilth hedges). 



8. Roadsides (distinguishing those over grass or tilth). 



9. Stream-banks (distinguishing between slow or rapid). 



10. Moorlands [i.e., where Calluna, Erica, Pteris, etc., are 



the predominant species). 



11. Broken ground (whether natural, as on escarpments, 



stream-sides, or caused by man — but not for 

 cultivation) . 



12. Lakes or ponds (noting inflows and outflows). 



13. Streams (rapid or slow). 



14. Sand-dunes (inland or marine). 



15. Salt-marsh (natural or artificial). 



16. Elevation (above Ordnance datum). 



Naturalist* 



