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_ stray specimens occur about the Senhouse Dock, also at Silloth, 
and on a patch of waste ground at Dubmill ; very poisonous. 
SCROPHULARIACE, 
Verbascum thapsus, not infrequent on the dry sandhills along 
the coast, especially in the neighbourhood of Coulderton, a 
little way beyond our limits to the south. Scrophularia nodosa, 
“Stinking Roger,” a plant of considerable repute among our 
local medicine men, may frequently be encountered on rubbish 
heaps by the shore. Digitalis purpurea ; a stately and handsome 
plant, like the Daisy, Buttercup, and Bluebell, calling up remi- 
_ niscences of our earliest wanderings by copse or hedgerow, wanting 
only to be a native of Mexico or the Burman empire to qualify it 
_ for becoming a florist’s treasure. JLznaria elatine; reported by 
_Miss Glaister as growing plentifully at Pow Hill, Kirkbride. 
L. vulgaris, ‘Butter and Eggs,” common at several points along 
the shore; apt to spring up where recent embankments have 
_ been formed; inland it seems to prefer deep sandy loam, and 
is very plentiful about Aspatria and Bullgill. Veronica hederifolia; 
not a common species in Cumberland, but fairly plentiful where 
found; seldom perhaps near the sea, yet large patches appear on 
hedgebanks of both sides of the highway near the bridge crossing 
_the railway at Risehow. V. folita, and V. agrestis, closely-allied 
" species, are not unfrequent agrestal weeds in the light sandy fields 
which fringe the coast; the former is perhaps more confined to 
gardens. V. buxbaumii, not long ago was looked upon as a 
botanical rarity in Cumberland; is now spreading rapidly and 
becoming permanently established. Several patches may be seen 
on the rubbish heaps carted upon the beach from Risehow to 
‘Maryport ; near the railway sheds at Aspatria it has been noticed 
for twenty years ; luxuriant specimens were observed last autumn 
about the old sandstone quarries near Stockdalewath bridge. 
_V. arvensis; this species is found in cultivated fields where the 
‘soil is light and friable, frequently too it is met with on wall tops 
‘that have been capped with turf, Its flowers are very small, but 
Of a brilliant blue. V. serpyliifolia; on rubbish heaps not ins 
