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PLUMBAGINACE. 
899 Statice binervosa. Specimens of this plant were received in 
1887 from Mr. Jos. Adair. They were gathered about 
the base of the cliffs at St. Bees Head, an old station for 
the species. 
CHENOPODIACE. 
I have experienced no slight difficulty in the correct identifica- 
tion of the various types of Goosefoot and Ovache that have 
appeared by thousands on the heaps of household mbbish and 
ships’-ballast deposited about Risehow and Maryport during the 
last five years, in addition to those species which are recognised as 
indigenous to the Solway shore. My doubts have been resolved 
in most instances by the ready courtesy of Mr. Baker. 
Of Chenopods proper, besides the ordinary Chenopodium album 
and its variety (b) wide, I have gathered C. urbicum and C. murale, 
but in consegence of the frequent changes of surface by fresh 
additions of ballast, I cannot look upon them as likely to maintain 
their footing or to become persistent. 
Of the Orache or Purslane family the following have been 
observed, viz. Atriplex laciniata, distinctly I think indigenous, being 
met with frequently along the beach; A. Aastata, with two or three 
varieties ; A. babingtonit, A. angustifolia, A. littoralis of several 
types ; A. deltoidea, also in variety. 
925 Leta maritima. Plentifully distributed over the ballast heaps 
nearest to the head of the Senhouse Dock since 1876. 
It is, however, indigenous to the coast, having been 
observed at several stations from Coulderton to Har- 
rington, though never very numerous. 
EUPHORBIACES. 
977 Mercurialis annua. A plant heretofore but little known in 
Cumberland, has been found on the ballast hills in 1886 
and 1887. Adventive doubtless. 
