Page:Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1867).djvu/172

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A NEW FLORA OF

8. V. monantha Vicia monantha, Koch. Alien.

Plentiful in a field of cultivated V. sativa at Allenheads, July, 1865 (B.).

14. LATHYRUS, L.

1. L. pratensis Lathyrus pratensis, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1, 2.

Common in hedge-rows and grassy places, ascending to 500 yards in Harwood Dale and East Allendale.

15. OROBUS, L.

1. O. tuberosus Orobus tuberosus, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1, 2.

Common upon heaths and the borders of pastures, ascending to the high limestone scars of Harwood Dale, 550 yards. O. niger is not satisfactorily ascertained as a Cheviot-land plant.

Order 4. ROSACEAE.

l. PRUNUS, L.

1. P. spinosa Prunus spinosa, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

The varieties spinosa and insititia common in hedge-rows and thickets, the former ascending to 400 yards at Moor Rigs in Teesdale, perhaps not native there, but no doubt truly so at 1150 feet in the wood above the village of Wearhead, on the porphyry about Alwinton, and on the basalt at Kyloe. Fine and plentiful in the woods about Hareshaw Linn. The var. domestica occurs as a straggler from cultivation only, and is grown in Allendale as high as 1700 feet.

2. P. padus Prunus padus, L. Native. Scottish type. Area C, N, D. Range 1, 2.

Frequent in woods and thickets, principally amongst the hills, ascending in Teesdale to Falcon Clints, 500 yards.