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Order 2. IRIDACEAE.

1. IRIS, L.

1. I. foetidissima Iris foetidissima, L. Native. English type. Area D. Range 1.

Damp woods, very rare. Cowclose near Gateshead (W. Bobertson and John Thornhil] !). In a wood north of Sunderland Bridge near Rushyford (W. Backhouse !). Jolby near Darlington (E. Robson. F.). Morden Carr, but near houses, and perhaps introduced (M.A. Lawson).

2. I. pseudacorus Iris pseudacorus, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Common in boggy places, ascending the Wooler Water almost to Langlee-ford and the Coquet to Shillmoor (200 yards).

2. CROCUS, L.

1. C. vernus Crocus vernus, L. Alien.

In a field near Alnwick (T.). Established with C. aureus in the park at Seaton Delaval (W.H. Brown.) {{c|Order 3. AMARYLLIDACEAE.

1. NARCISSUS, L.

1. N. biflorus Narcissus biflorus, Curt. Alien.

In a field below Windy Edge near Alnwick (R. Embleton. T.). Gathered also by E. Robson near Dinsdale.

2. N. pseudo-narcissus Narcissus pseudonarcissus, L. Native? English type. Area N, D.

Probably wild in some of the stations, but not in any that we ourselves have had the opportunity of seeing. We should judge it, from the accounts we have received, to be so on the banks of the Derwent at Allansford. It is reported also in the Flora from meadows near Butsfield and Barley Haugh near Ebchester, and woods at Cocken and Witton-le-Wear. The common garden