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W I L D PLANTS GROWING ON WASTE GROUND IN IPSWICH. BY THE LATE STEPHEN J . BATCHELDER, F . R . H . S . ,
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papaver somniferum, Opium P o p p y . - G a r d e n s and allotments on Belle Vue Road. Crepis taraxacifolia, Dandelion-leaved Hawk's-beard.—Plentiful on allotment on top of raiKvay cutting near convent. Datura Stramonium, Thorn Apple.-Waste „round to north of Corn-hill and on allotment, Belle Vue Road. Lyaum barbarum, Duke of Argyle's Tea T r e e - I n t r o d u c e d in eheste of tea where it was used as packing from China Dnttway on top of railway cutting near the Albion Mills. Acanthus spmosus and A mollis, Bear's Breech, B r a n k u r s i n e . — A l l o t m e n t s near Bank Road and convent, probably escapes from nurseries 1 ragopogon pratense, Goat's Beard.-Allotments on Belle Vue Road near railway. Fceniculum vulgare, F e n n e l . - E n d of Ashmere Grove near railway cutting, probably conveyed from Felixstow with bailast. Dipsacus sylvestris, Teazle.—Grows at end ot Ashmere Grove. Cichorium Intybus, Chicory - W a s t e ground to north of Cornhill. Tussilago Farfara, Coltsfoot.—Waste „round, St. Margaret's Street and Pipe's brickyard. Lactuca virosa, Aerid Lettuce.—Waste ground, St. Margaret's Street. Eptlohum angustifolium, Rose Bay.-Waste ground, ^ - M a r g a r e t s Street and in forecourts of several houses in Woodbridge Road Dip otaxis tenuifolia, Wall R o c k e t . - O n old wall at corner of Belle Vue Road and Woodbridge Road. Colchicum autumnale, Meadow Saffron—Back garden, Belle Vue Road. Hypericum calyanum, Large-flowered St. John's Wort.—Woodbridge Road near the convent and back garden of Belle Vue Road Comum maculatum Hemlock.—Pipe's brickyard and sides of the Strand by Orwell at Wherstead. Artemma vulgaris, M u g w o r t . - A t the side ot Woodbridge Road beUVeen " The Case is Altered Inn and Khartoum Road. Artemisia maritima, Sea Wormwood.-Salt marshes by side of the Strand, near the Ostrich Inn at Wherstead. Phytolacca acinosa, The Indian Pokeweed.-Habitat the Himalayas. Two plants of this species appeared in my garden during 1VZ/, flowered and fruited ; its fruit looks like a spike of ripe blackberries The puzzle is how the seeds were conveyed : there are no other such plants growing in the neighbourhood. Atropa Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade.-For many years it grew in Lloyd s Avenue and also in St. Margaret's Street. Solanum Dulcamara, Woody Nightshade.—Allotment on Belle Vue Road. ^ a n u m nigrum, Black Nightshade.-Allotments and gardens, Belle Vue Road. JEgopodium Podagraria, Gout-weed.—Garden, Belle Vue Road Anagallis ccerulia, Blue Pimpernel.—Rare in garden,