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ally distributed, and is known as the “Dead Nettle” or “Day 
Nettle” of the Border folks’ speech. Zamium amplexicaule is 
common on the ballast heaps at Maryport; and, about Flimby, 
Aspatria, &c., is a common weed of cultivation. Z. écisum, and 
L. purpureum, the “Bad Man’s Posy” of Carlisle children, are 
both common about hedgerows and rubbish heaps. A white 
flowering variety of the latter species grows by the roadside 
between Dalston Village and the Railway Station. JZ. album isa 
conspicuous wayside weed from Maryport to Whitehaven and 
further. Ajuga reptans is also common in moist shady spots ; 
nowhere have I seen it in such abundance as in Flimby Wood. 
Teucrium scorodonia, though properly a plant of the hills, is yet 
abundant in some of the dry sandy hillocks near the shore in the 
neighbourhood of Harrington, &c. 
BORAGINACE. 
Echium vulgare; appears along the shore at intervals ; the most 
considerable patch is found on the beach behind the slag-bank 
at St. Helen’s Colliery, on the Workington side, where Glauctum 
Zuteum also is conspicuous; I find no mention of these plants in 
the lists of the late Mr. W. Dickinson, F.L.S., of Thorncroft; or 
the late Mr. D. Tweddle, of Workington, both of whom were 
diligent observers, and lived many years in the immediate neigh- 
bourhood ; the absence of all mention by them of the existence 
of two such remarkable plants, justifies the assumption that their 
establishment is of comparatively recent date. Mertensia mart- 
tima; the Rev. John Harryman, early in the present century, 
reported the occurrence of the “Oyster plant,” as it is called, 
between “ Maryport and Workington, sfaringly ;” the remark still 
holds good; but perhaps very sparingly would better represent 
the present state of affairs ; at Coulderton, Parton, and elsewhere, 
it has been observed; but never in any great abundance; it is 
a lovely plant, with deep green glossy and fleshy leaves, and 
flowers of brilliant azure tint; the whole plant turns black in 
drying.  Lithospermum arvense; one of the rarer plants of Cum- 
berland; a weed of tillage, of which I found several specimens in 
