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bright yellow blossoms of the latter are strikingly handsome and 
showy. Chrysanthemum segetum, as a weed of tillage very 
abundant in green crops, especially in the St. Bees district; I 
remember during a wet season, when the weeds had not died 
down in the furrows after being pulled up, seeing a field of turnips 
there presenting the appearance of being covered with a gigantic 
carpeting, striped alternately green and yellow. C. deucanthemum,; 
in boyhood I remember hearing a nonagenarian yeoman assert 
that within his recollection—dating probably one hundred and fifty 
years back—the Ox-eyed Daisy was unknown in the neighbourhood 
of Carlisle, and owed its introduction to imperfectly dressed samples 
of seed corn (oats). Matricaria inodora, one of the most abundant 
and conspicuous plants of the coast line, sometimes seen in too 
great plenty among corn crops far inland; two distinct varieties 
are recognised. Zanacetum vulgare, seen at remote intervals, and 
_ generally on rubbish out-thrown from gardens. Anthemis cotula, a 
_ few plants noticed of late years among ballast and rubbish de- 
posited on the beach near Maryport; its permanence is doubtful, 
and certainly not desirable. Achillea millefolium ; common every-= 
where ; a variety with pink blossoms is not infrequent on the shore 
line. A. ptarmica; not so generally distributed as the foregoing 
_ species, but far from being rare; prefers moisture. Artemisia 
_ vulgaris; not rare, but towards the coast confined to mud heaps 
or deposits on waste ground: on the North Shore at Workington 
_ near the Lonsdale Dock, about Risehow, and at Maryport. Fi/ago 
_ minima; this species, the least of the Cudweeds, grows most 
abundantly about Silloth. Gnaphatium uliginosum; a densely 
_ cottony plant; grows commonly in ditch sides, or places where 
water has stood during winter. Senecio vulgaris is pretty nearly 
_ ubiquitous as a garden weed, and a tenant of waste ground. 
_S. sylvaticus grows close to the shore in the neighbourhood of 
Dubmill, and about the Saltpans. _S. véscosus, the stinking species, 
flourishes in very great abundance on the North Shore at Work- 
ington, between the iron furnaces and the sea, and is fairly plentiful 
_ along the coast to Silloth and Bowness, SS. jacodea and SS. aguaticus 
are also of common occurrence, the former in dry pastures, and 
