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ADDENDA,

Containing Plants and Habitats ascertained since the preceding Pages were printed.

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PART I.

Veronica montana, Page 2, Genus 6, No. 7.
In the woods at Wardrew, N., abundant.

Utricularia intermedia, P. 2, G. 8, No. 2.
In a bog near Crag Lake, N. — Mr. J. Thompson, Sp.

U. minor, P. 2, G. 8, No. 3.
In ditches on Baron House Bog, about a mile from Wardrew, N.

Iris foetidissima, P. 3, G. 16, No. 2.
In a wood to the north of Sunderland Bridge, near Rushyford, D.— Mr. Backhouse.

Scirpus pauciflorus, P. 3, G. 19, No. 2.
By the Irthing near Gilsland, N.

S. fluitans, P. 3, G. 19, No. 3.
In Bromley Lake, N.—Mr. J. Thompson.

Eriophorum pubescens α., P. 4, G. 21, No. 3.
Near Bourn House, in the neighbourhood of Ridley Hall, N. — Mr. John Thompson, Sp.

Sagina maritima, P. 11, G. 65, No. 2.
On the coast near Hartley Bates, N.

S. apetala, P. 11, G. 65, No. 3.
On the coast at Newbiggin and Near Hartley, N.

Myosotis repens. Creeping Water Scorpion-grass, P. 11, G. 68, No. 6.

Eng. Bot. 2703; Berwick Flora, ii. 274; Hook. Br. Fl. 83, under M. palustris; M. scorpioides, Alpine variety; Northumberland and Durham Guide, i. 18.
By the Irthing, on the moors above Gilsland, and by the rivulet near the summit of Cheviot, N. In the vale below Langley Ford, and in Horncliff Dene. —Dr. G. Johnston. On the moors near Redpath, N.— W.C. Trevelyan, Esq. By the High Force, and on Widdy Bank, D. — Mr. Backhouse.

This plant requires too long a specific character to be a very good species. — See Eng. Bot. Sowerby's drawing in that work appears to me to be very faithful, and the yellowish hue of the herbage true to nature. Is it not a moorland variety of M. palustris?

Primula farinosa, P. 13, G. 77, No. 2.
On bogs near Chollerford Bridge N.

Viola lutea, P. 14, G. 86, No. 6.
The blue variety, on Wall-Town Crags, N.

Atropa Belladonna, P. 15, G. 90, No. 1.
On the banks of a rivulet which enters the Tweed at Horncliff, N Mr. H. Carr, in Berwick Flora.

Oenanthe crocata, Page 19, Genus 122, No. 4.

By Dr. Hooker's remarks in his British Flora, at p. 123, my attention has been recalled to a plant of common occurrence on the banks of Tyne and the other rivers in this neighbourhood, which, from Smith's description, and Sowerby's figure at 2213, of the English Botany, and in the Medical Botany, t. 267, I had considered as the Hemlock Water Dropwort, overlooking the circumstance, that Oenanthe crocata has a yellow juice. Lamarck and De Candolle, in their Flora of France, Woodville, in the Medical Botany, and Dr. Withering, in his Arrangement of

British Plants, make no mention of this yellow fluid, but Sprengel, in his edition of the Systema Vegetabilium, i. 889, when speaking of the plant says, "Succo luteo venenoso scatet;" and when he describes the succeeding plant, Oenanthe apiifolia, adopted from Brotero's Flora Lusitanica, he adds to a description which, with the exception of the stem being smooth instead of furrowed, might answer for either species, "Succo nullo peculiari gaudet." Certain it is, that in this particular, the Water Dropwort of our district resembles the Portuguese plant, but whether it be identically the same, I cannot take upon me to say for want of authenticated specimens of the Celery-leaved Water Dropwort.

Galanthus nivalis, P. 21, G. 145, No. 1.
In the dene at Halton Castle, N.

Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, P. 21 , G. 146, No. 2.
Near Chillingham, N.—Mrs. Langhorne, in Berwick Flora.

Allium Schoenoprasum, P. 22, G. 147, No. 5.
This plant, which is notenumerated in Ray's Synopsis of British Species, grows in considerable abundance on the flat Basaltic rocks between the Roman Station at Wall-Town and the Crags, near an ancient well called the King's Well, N.

Ornithogalum luteum, P. 22, G. 149, No. 1.
In woods at Halton Castle, N. — Miss Atkinson, of Carlisle.

Convallaria mulliflora, P. 22, G. 151, No. 3.
Near Stannington Bridge, N.—Mr. R.B. Bowman.

Probably naturalized in that locality.}}

Juncus lampocarpus β, P. 23, G. 153, No. 12.

Hooker, Fl. Brit. 162; J. nigritellus, Eng. Bot. 2643.

Near the Bourn House, three quarters of a mile south of Ridley Hall, and in Lipwood Moss, two miles north of Lipwood, N.—Mr. John Thompson, Sp.

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