Page:Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1867).djvu/248

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A NEW FLORA OF

links at Scremerston near Berwick, and gathered there within the last twenty years, but now probably extinct. Plentifully on the north-east shore of Holy Island (Gr. S. Brady).

4. SYMPHYTUM, L.

1. S. officinale Symphytum officinale, L. Native. English type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Waste ground and stream-sides, rare. Banks of the Lucker Burn between Lucker and Spindlestone (R. Embleton). Lanes at Bambro' (W. Robertson). Ponteland, Benwell, Wallsend, Willington, Cullercoats, North Shields, and Jarrow. Plantation at Low Linn near Durham (H. Gregson). Castle Eden (M. A. Lawson). Polam near Darlington (J. Backhouse). Lane west of the station at Barnard Castle, 150 yards (B.). S. tuberosum is recorded from near Durham on the authority of E. Robson, but has not been seen recently.

5. BORAGO, L.

1. B. officinalis Borago officinalis, L. Alien.

In a corn-field at Halidon near Wooler (Rev. A. Baird).

6. LYCOPSIS, L.

1. L. arvensis Lycopsis arvensis, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Frequent in dry sandy ground, especially near the sea, ascending to 150 yards near Roddam, and in Coquetdale above Rothbury.

7. ANCHUSA, L.

1. A. sempervirens Anchusa sempervirens, L. Alien.

Waste ground near Denwick, Hulne Abbey, and West Boldon (T.). Subspontaneous at Preston near North Shields (W. H. Brown!).