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 BOTANY Class I.— PH^NOGAMIA (continued) ' Sub-class I. — Dicotyledones {continued) Order LIX. — Liblatee (continued) •Mentha viridis, L. 60. Lune banks, Halm ; A. Wilson* — rubra, Sm. 59. Canal bank Mayhull to Lydiate ; R. Brown. Green's Fl. 60. Higher Bridge Island; Flora of Stonyhurst (prob. correct J.A.W.). 69. Baker's/-/. 1885. (Miss Hodg- son form near rubra) — gentilis, L. 60. By the Hodder, nr. Mytton, Aug. 1899 ; Wheldon — Pulegium, L. 59. Newton Common, 1851 ; Dickinson. 69. On Goose Green, Dalton ; Atkinson, see Baker's Fl. 1885 ; also Petty 's ' Constit.' in Naturalist, Oct. 1897 Thymus serpyllum, Fries. 59. Top. Bot. Green's Fl. 60. Siherdale ; A. Wilson, 1887. Led Beck and Fell; Petty. 69. Dr. Windsor, 1857, Miss Hodgson, 1874 Calamintha arvensis, Lam. 59. ToJ>. Bot. ! 60. Camforth ; A. Wilson. 69. C. J. Ashfield in Phytol. 1861, p. 237. J. G. Baker, 1885. Rev. A. Ley, Baker's Fl. 1885 — officinalis, Moench. 59. Top. Bot. Nr. Garston ; Hall. Nr. Ditton ; Miss Gowthwaite. 69. J. G. Baker, 1885 Salvia Verbenaca, L. 60. Siherdale, 1901 ; Petty Nepeta Cataria, L. tsg. Canal banks, Aintree ; Wheldon. 60. -{■. A. Wilson. 69. Beach at Rampside ; Atkinson in With. ed. iii. 1796, 327. Baker's Fl. 1885. Petty's Cmstit. Scutellaria minor, Huds. 59. Top. Bot. Formhy ; T. Glover. Knowsley ; Marrat. 60. Whittington Moor; Arkholme Moor ; A. Wilson, 1 900. 69. Nr. Dalton, Atkinson in With. ed. iii. 1796. 540. Hawkshead Hill ; Coniston tarns, and by stream below Tarn House, Miss S. Beever in Baker's W. 1885 F. M. Webb.* Dickinson's Fl. [69] Stachys arvensis, L. 59. Top. Bot. Green's Fl. 60. A. Wilson, 1888. 69. Miss Hodgson, 1874 (no loc.) Galeopsis Ladanum, L. 59. Top. Bot. Dick- inson's Fl. * Garston; R. Brown. 69. Baker's f/. [ — ochroleuca. Lam. Frequent in Lanca- shire ; Hudson. Sm. Eng. Fl. rep. 1825] — versicolor. Curt. 59. Top. Bot. Wheldon, etc. 60. Top. Bot. also W. and W. 69. Baker's F/. Lamium amplexicaule, L. 60. Wheldon, 1900. 59. Top. Bot. Green's Fl. ' very common,' nr. Liverpool ; Wheldon — intermedium. Fries. '59. Casual ; Wheldon. 60. Top. Bot. — Silver- dale; Melvill I 57 Class L— PH^NOGAMIA {continued) Sub-class L — Dicotyledones {continued) Order LIX. — Libiatie (continued) Lamium hybridum, Vill. 59. Top. Bot. Speke ; Wheldon. 60. Top. Bot. Melvill — Galeobdolon, Crantz. 59. Top. Bot. Goodlad Hb. ! Whitehead's Fl. Buxton's G. 60. P. J. Hornby. 69. Coniston; 1864. Linton; see Baker's Fl. Ballota nigra, L. 59. Top. Bot. ' Very rare.' Wheldon in litt. Pilkington ; Bux- ton's G. 69. C. C. Babington from Neuibould. See Petty's Constit. LX. — PlantagineiS Littorella juncea. Berg. 59. Top. Bot. Crosby Marsh; Withering. Formby to Southport; Dickinson. Green's Fl. Whitehead's Fl 60. Canal, nr. Garstang; 1891. A.Wilson, i 69. (Linton's Lake C. only) LXI. — Illecebracete Scleranthus annuus, L. 59. Top. Bot. Bux- ton's G. 56. Green's FL 60. Nr. Garstang; 1891. A.Wilson. 69. Miss Hodgson ; Baker's Fl. LXI I. — Chenopodiacece 'casual,' 1 896-1 904 ! 60. Whel- don, 'casual,' 1 90 1 Green's FL Top. Bot. 60. Top. Bot. Syme sp. Wheldon, 1900* 60. A. Wilson, 1899.* — rubrum, L.i 59. Top. Bot. Green's FL 60. Wheldon,* 1899. A. Wilson, 1 90 1* Beta maritima, L. 60. Nr. Lytham ; A. Dullman. 69. IValney I. ; Rev. W. W. Mason in litt. 1902 1 The first four of these Chenopodia are introduced with chicken corn and in ballast 5 they are all likely to spread, but have little claim to a place in the British Flora. They are to be found more or less plentifully on rail and river banks, and waste places at all the great seaports, and inland in similar places by malt kilns and flower mills, along with a host of other aliens, and occasionally turn up In the neighbourhood of pheasant and poultry runs, the seeds of many species which are separated from foreign barley by the Boby machine along with the fruit of Polygonum Fagopyrum (F. esculentum) being much used as pheasant food. A flora of aliens found in Britain, with the date of the first appearance or record of each plant, will require an annual supplement, but it will be useful to future botanists. The aliens found in Lancashire will fill many pages of such a flora, hence these remarks, A vast number of these aliens are tender annuals which fail to produce ripe seed in our best summers, a considerable number are hardy annuals, and a few are biennial and perennial. Besides these aliens, plants occasionally spring up (often in profusion) of species which have been considered for a century, more or less, as true natives of a district, In company with obvious Introductions ; these are usually on dredging or newly made ground. These are especially inter- esting problems for the botanist. Our oldest records do not give us the approximate year of the introduction of such plants as Veronica Tournefortii ; if they did we should have to treat a great many of our cornfield weeds as * foreigners ' ; abundant as they now are they would have to take their places in the alien flora. 8
 * Marrubium vulgare, L. 59. Top. Bot.*
 * Chenopodium ficifolium, Sm. 59. Wheldon,
 * — murale, L. 59. Wheldon and others.
 * — hybridum, L. ^^. Top. Bot. t Green's FL
 * — urbicum, L. 59. Wheldon ; 1 90 1.*