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262 Medicago denticulata. This plant appeared in the summer of 
1887 at the edge of a dunghill at St. Helen’s Colliery, 
Workington. One of the officials accounted for its 
presence by supposing that the seeds came among Irish 
hay imported for the use of the horses at the colliery. 
He was probably right. 
264 Melilotus officinalis. Grows at intervals along the beach 
between Workington and Maryport. On the ballast 
heaps at the latter place the var. Jarviflora grew plenti- 
fully in 1886-87. 
265 M. vulgaris. Remarkable for its sweet scent and white 
blossoms, characters which readily distinguish it from 
the preceding plant, which bears ye//ow flowers ; with the 
preceding at Maryport. 
271 Linum angustifolium. Howrigg quarry, near Curthwaite. 
(Rev. R. Wood.) 
310 Lathyrus sylvestris. Formerly supposed to grow only on 
Redness Point, near Parton. It now flourishes abun- 
dantly on the L. & N. W. Railway slopes a little to the 
east of Siddick Junction. 
ROSACE. 
353 Rosa arvensis. Grows in some abundance in the upper 
portions of Flimby Wood, and yet more plentifully in 
Aigle Gill Wood, about a mile further to the west. 
CRASSULACEA, 
418 Cotyledon umbilicus. Ehen side, Egremont. (Mr. Jos. Adair.) 
UMBELLIFERZ, 
; 479 Silaus pratensis is the only new species of this extensive order 
I have to note. Prevalent on the high moors of Ellen- 
borough, Broughton, and Seaton, 
DIpsAcEe&é. 
539 Dépsacus sylvestris. A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough 
to discover a large mass of these plants growing at the 
