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similar situations, and is especially plentiful between Flimby and 
Workington. upleurum rotundifolium,; only once seen on the 
Silloth ballast heaps, with other casuals, in 1881, and not likely to 
be permanently established. Cnanthe fistulosa grew formerly in 
small quantity in swampy ground near the Old Kiln farm at Dub- 
mill, but not seen there in 1887 or 1888. (@. crocata; rather too 
plentiful by brooks or in swampy localities ; a somewhat dangerous 
plant, as cattle have been poisoned by cropping its foliage or 
masticating the digitate roots when rendered soft by exposure to 
the atmosphere, on banks where they have been carelessly thrown 
on clearing out watercourses in winter; it grows in great plenty 
and luxuriance on the south bank of the Old Reservoir at Mary- 
port, &c. Crithmum maritimum, the “‘Samphire” of Shakespeare, 
grows on the cliffs at St. Bees, and has occasionally taken root on 
the beach on both sides of that headland, doubtless lodged there 
by the tide. Angelica sylvestris, locally ‘‘Smooth Kesh,” is found 
from shore level at Maryport and elsewhere, almost up to an 
altitude of 2000 feet by some of our mountain streams. eracleum 
sphondylium, “ Rough Kesh,” or Hogweed, is almost universally 
distributed, though not reaching an elevation so lofty as the 
Smooth Kesh. Daucus carota; plentiful in friable or sandy soil 
all along the coast. Caucalis daucoides ; not reckoned indigenous, 
perhaps, in any part of Cumberland ; has appeared at Maryport, 
Whitehaven, and Silloth ; at the last mentioned station for several 
years in succession. Cherophyllum sylvestre; a common hedgerow 
plant, and one of the earliest-flowering members of this extensive 
order. C. temulum; equally plentiful with the last, but a little 
later in coming into flower, and further distinguished by its less 
robust habit, and purplish and hairy flower stalks; in full bloom 
about ten days before midsummer. JZyrrhis odorata ; usually not 
far from houses, leading to the inference that it has been cultivated 
by our ancestors for some economic purpose; in my boyhood, I 
have seen beekeepers rub the inside of empty hives with the 
fragrant leaves of ‘Sweet Cicely” as an inducement to the newly 
swarmed bees to take possession of their perfumed dwelling; I 
remain sceptical as to the efficacy of the proceeding. Svandix pec- 
