22G THE REDBREAST. 



The botanist is early in the field; the appearance of his favourite plants 

 tell him to quit the confined city, its drunkenness and impurities, for better 

 and purer air. The wood presents its beauties, is open to every lover 

 of nature, and amidst its solitudes are to be found pleasure and instruction. 



Echium vulgare, (Viper's Bugloss,) and Primula farinosa, Bird's eye 

 Primrose,) grow here, the former on Cowran Cut and Armthwaite, the 

 latter plentifully at Durdar. Paris quadrifolia, (Herb Paris,) Genista 

 tinctoria, (Dyer's Green-weed,) Genista Anglica, (Needle Green-weed,) Caram 

 carui, (Caraway,) Veronica scutellata, (Marsh Speedwell,) at Blackwell. 



During this season I have met with Cardamine amara, (Large-flowered 

 Bitter Cress,) and Gagea lutea, (Yellow Gagea,) in the spring at Arm- 

 thwaite and Froddell Crook. 



Chelidonium viajus, (Celandine,) grows plentifully in our lanes; also 

 Chrysanthemum Parthenium, (Fever-few,) Hieraceum sabandum, (Broad-leaved 

 Hawkweed,) Filago minima, (Least Filago,) and Euphrasia officinalis, 

 (Eyebright.) 



Also on some of our lands grow abundantly Linum Catharticum, 

 (Purging Flax,) Trifolium arvense, (Hare's-foot Trefoil,) Briza media, 

 (Quaking Grass,) Eestuca rubra, (Creeping Fescue,) and Gnaphalium sylva- 

 ticum, (Cudweed.) 



Ballota nigra, (Black Horehound,) Stacliys annua, (Woundwort,) Mar- 

 rubium vulgare, (White Horehound,) are plants to be found in the 

 neighbourhood of Wetheral; so also may be Lythrum salicaria, (Loose 

 Strife,) and Asarum Europceum, (Asarabacca.) 



(To be continued.) 



THE REDBREAST, (ERYTEACA RUBECULA, 

 SYLVIA RUBECULA.) 



BY O. S. ROUND, ESQ. 



This is a familiar species, which everybody knows, and has probably 

 pitied, if not assisted, when the snow lay thick upon the ground, and food 

 was hard to come by to those who had no stores of winter-food laid up, 

 to resort to when it cannot be had de hord in horam. The Redbreast or 

 Robin, as he is familiarly called, has, time out of mind, been spared by 

 universal consent; and the reason of this would be a difficult problem 

 to solve satisfactorily, although the probability is his familiarity, his bold- 

 ness, looking so much like confidence, is the chief reason; and, whatever 

 may be the true cause, the idea once having obtained and been received 

 it is not difficult then to account for the sustainment of the fact, for 

 let any one ask himself the question, why he has spared the bird and 



