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_ tenveneris once grew about the Bent-hills, Maryport, but has been 
quite obliterated there by unsightly slag-banks from the iron fur- 
naces. Conium maculatum, not unfrequently seen towards the 
coast, and is rather common about Workington, High Harrington, 
&e. 
ARALIACEA. 
The only British representative of this order is Hedera helix, 
Common Ivy, a well known ornament of old trees and ruined 
buildings. 
CAPRIFOLIACEA. 
' Adoxa moschatellina ; this pretty little species is to be found as 
_ early as April on dry hedgebanks ; from the peculiar arrangement 
_ of its flowers, Carlisle youngsters have nicknamed it ‘The Town 
_ Hall Clock.” Sambucus nigra; a well-known tree, from the fruit 
of which, or rather its expressed juice, a pleasant beverage known 
as ‘‘Elder-berry Syrup,” is concocted by village housewives. ovz- 
| cera periclymenum ; few shrubs are better known even by children 
than the Honeysuckle, the fragrance of whose blossoms we have 
all appreciated in the hedgerows of country lanes. 
RUBIACEZ. 
Many of the Bed-Straw family are to be met with during seaside 
rambles ; among others may be enumerated Galium cruciatum and 
_ G. verum, both with yellow blossoms ; while G. mollugo, G. saxatile, 
_G. palustre, G. uliginosum, and G. aparine all produce white 
flowers. Asperula odorata, better known as Sweet-scented Wood- 
‘tuffe, though sparsely found towards the shore, is yet remarkably 
abundant in Flimby Wood, and other places but little distant 
from it. 
VALERIANACES. 
_Valeriana dioica; though the swampy upland meadows of the 
Lake District are the proper home of this species, it is occasionally 
“met with near the shore where sufficient moisture prevails. 
