Page:Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1867).djvu/142

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A NEW FLORA

Common Burn, banks of the Wooler Water between Langlee-ford and the town, Ingram, Powburn, &c. Gathered also upon the basalt at Wall Town Crags by the Rev. A. Headley and others, and near Embleton by Mr. Embleton.

7. IBERIS, L.

1. I. amara Iberis amara, L. Alien.

A casual weed in cultivated fields and by road-sides. Waste ground at Alnmouth (T.). Road-side between Holystone and Harbottle (B.). Corn-field near Tarset (Professor Oliver!). Ouseburn (Robertson!). Hoferd Banks and Tyne side near Hexham Bridge (P.).

8. LEPIDIUM, L.

1. L. latifolium Lepidium latifolium, L. Denizen. English type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Sandstone quarry above the old ford at Norham (Miss Douglas, Dr. Johnston). Cliff between Priors' Haven and the castle at Tynemouth (F. R!), now destroyed there. Wear side near Durham Abbey (F!). Limestone quarry at Hartlepool (J. Hogg!). Bank facing the sea north of Seaton Carew (E Robson, F! M. A. Lawson). The Hexham plant is L. campestre Lepidium campestre.

2. L. Smithii Lepidium heterophyllum, Hook. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Occasionally in cultivated fields in dry soil, less frequent with us than the next. Bamborough, Rothbury, Riding Mills, Winlaton, Newcastle, &c.

3. L. campestre Lepidium campestre, R. Br. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Not uncommon in similar places to the preceding, ascending to the limestone quarries at Lowick (400 feet), and in Tynedale to fields at Slealey (600 feet).