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THE BOTANY OF THE SOLWAY SHORE.* 
Parts 2 and 3. 
By WM. HODGSON, Esa., A.L.S., BOTANICAL RECORDER TO 
THE ASSOCIATION. : 
' (Read at Carlisle and at Longtown. ) 
UMBELLIFERA. 
Hydrocotyle vulgaris, common in swamps and bogs quite down 
to shore level; very common in Salta Moss, by Dubmill. The 
smallest native umbellifer. Sanicula europea, not so closely 
_ approaching the coast as the foregoing, but conspicuously plentiful 
‘in Flimby Wood, and similar localities. Eryngium maritimum ; 
_ the Sea Holly is everywhere plentiful along the shore where. light . 
sand and gravel prevail, and is highly ornamental when seen in 
full bloom a little after midsummer. <Afium graveolens, on the 
contrary, is comparatively rare, and found only on muddy flats or 
_ by the edge of creeks, mostly within the reach of tidal influence, 
as the Cloffocks at Workington, Whitrigg Marsh, Kirkbride, &c 
_Lffelostiadium nodifiorum appears by the Old Reservoir at Maryport, 
and in the brook which empties into the sea close to Bank End farm; 
and H7. inundatum grows in abundance in a swampy little patch of 
ground close to the seaside pathway near the Workington Artillery 
‘storehouse. igopodium podagraria flourishes on rubbish heaps 
and patches of waste ground, whether on the beach or far removed 
‘inland. Bunium flexuosum, on the drier parts of the coast frequent, 
and very widely distributed. Pimpinella saxifraga abounds in 
* The publication of this paper was unavoidably postponed last year. 
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