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Last summer it came to my knowledge that a son of Mr. Todd 
of Mereside, Bromfield, had made a collection of local plants, for 
which—beautifully dried and mounted—he had received the 
principal award at the Agricultural College, Aspatria. Being in 
Mr. Todd’s neighbourhood shortly afterwards, I called to see this 
collection, and was agreeably surprised to find that he had gathered 
two plants which I had never seen in a growing state, and for 
which hardly any previous County records existed. 
I will now enumerate the new records established within the 
two last seasons, keeping to the order and nomenclature of the 
London Catalogue of British Plants, 7th edition (1877). 
RANUNCULACEZ. 
9 Adonis autumnalts. A waif, found growing plentifully in a flax 
crop at Woodside farm, over Flimby. 
11 Ranunculus aquatilis, var. (a) drouettiiz, Found in 1887 ina 
tributary of the R. Cocker, between Scalehill and Lorton. 
23 . sceleratus. Near the Chemical Manure Works, Silloth. 
(Rev. H. Friend.) 
PAPAVERACE. 
42 Papaver rheas. This plant, common enough in my boyhood, 
is gradually dying out with the abandonment of tillage 
for cereal crops. Rubbish heaps at Risehow, Maryport. 
CRUCIFERA. 
58 Coronopus ruellit. Stray plants found in each of the last 
three summers on the ballast hills, Maryport. 
60 Thlaspi arvense. Hardly recognised as indigenous here, but 
found at Risehow, Maryport, and on the L. & N. W. 
Railway, near St. Helen’s signal box. 
65 Zeesdalia nudicaulis, Near Brackenthwaite, in Loweswater, 
1887. 
68 Lepidium draba. Near Risehow, on rubbish, 1887. 
71 L. ruderale. Ballast heaps at Maryport, 1887. 
