558 Natural Histoiy in the English Counties : — 



included them for the benefit of the young botanist, who, 

 seeing a plant mentioned as growing on a car, for instance, 

 might not think of finding it in a dissimilar situation. I am, 

 Sir, yours, &c. — S. Appleby, St. James's Gardens, Doncaster, 

 Atig, 6. 1831. 



P.S. Thorne Moor, Roche Abbey, and Maltby Woods 

 abound with rare plants. These places are each about ten miles 

 from Doncaster. At the first-named place the very rare plant 

 Scheuchzer/« palustris is to be met with in great plenty. — S, A. 



Plants found in Yorkshire. — Sir, I send you the names of 

 upwards of 120 species of plants, of which, except of the few 

 starred told me by a friend, I have in one year's study ascer- 

 tained the names, by the assistance of Berkenhout's Synopsis, 

 and Gray's Natural Arrangement. I name this, to encourage 

 those who may deem botany a difficult and cramp study. I 

 can assure them they will not find it so. I am learning a 

 profession, and consequently only gathered, and ascertained 

 the names of, my plants at my leisure hours, which are not 

 very numerous. — T. B. York, Dec. 9. 1831. 



Of the plants enumerated, we publish what we deem the 

 rarer, although some of those selected are not strictly rarities. 

 The plants starred in all were 25, including those we have 

 starred below : and we much commend our correspondent's 

 devotion to the subject. — J. D. 



Veronica spicata and officinalis, Pinguicula vulgaris, *Eri6phorura poly- 

 ptachyon, Valeriana officinalis, Sanguisorba officinalis, Galium erectum and 

 cruciatum, Plantago raaritima, Z/jsimachia nemorum, Erythrae^a Centau- 

 rium, ^araolus Valerandf, i)aucus maritimus, CKnanthe crocata, Sanicula 

 europae'a, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Colchicum autumnale, i?umex maritiraus,^ 

 ^lisrna ranunculoides, Trientalis europae'^a; ^rica Tetralix, cinerea, and 

 vulgaris ; Faccinium Myrtlllus, ^utomus umbellatus. Polygonum Bistorta, 

 Saponaria officinalis flore pleno, O'xalis Acetosella, Panunculus arvensis, 

 Teucrium Scorodonia, Mentha viridis, *Pet6nica officinalis, *PedicuIaris 

 palustris and sylvatica, *Jnthyllis Vulneraria, iathyrus sylvestris, Ticia 

 sylvatica, JOotus diffusus and major, Hypericum pulchrum, ^ieracium pa- 

 ludosum and murdrum, Achillea Ptarmica, ♦^"rapetrum nigrum, Humulus 

 Lupulus, Pamus communis. - , 



CUMBERLAND. 



Castle-Rigg. — The undergiven extract, descriptive of a 

 scene once witnessed near Castle-Rigg, has, although it may 

 not impart much information, enough of beauty in it to merit 

 being perused by our readers. For it we have long been 

 indebted to our invaluable correspondent G. J. To help its 

 intelligibleness, we may, introductorily, note from Mogg's Pater- 

 son's Roads, 1826, that " Castle-Rigg is contiguous to Keswick, 

 and Keswick is situated near the lower end of that beautiful 

 lake called Derwent Water, hence not unfrequently called 



