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PRIMULACE. 
Primula vulgaris, and P. officinalis, the Common Primrose 
and the Cowslip, are familiar to every child; the former is often 
seen close to the shore, the latter more rarely. Glaux maritima ; 
abundant in salt-water marshes and by the edges of creeks, as 
the Cloffocks at Workington, Whitrigg and Skinburness marshes, 
&c.; the finest examples I have seen grow on the beach about 
Anthorn and Cardurnock. Samolus valerandi; much less plentiful 
than the foregoing ; I have seen it on the beach near Coulderton, 
where a little rill empties into the sea; and again under similar 
circumstances a little to the west of Bowness-on-Solway. 
PLUMBAGINACE&. 
Armeria maritima; along the entire coast of Cumberland this 
plant, known locally as “Thrift,” flourishes abundantly ; nowhere 
is this more apparent than in the northern section, say from 
the mouth of the Ellen to Rockcliffe Marsh; near Cardurnock 
acres of it may be seen. Sfatice limonium ; grows sparingly in the 
neighbourhood of the Solway Viaduct ; also in salt marshes near 
St. Bees. .S. dinervosa, another form of Sea Lavender, is reported 
from the rocks at St. Bees Head, and is probably the same plant 
with that found at Fleswick, mentioned in the Whitehaven Cata- 
logue in Vol. VI. of the Transactions. 
PLANTAGINACEZ. 
All five British species of the Plantains are to be found at 
different stations along the shore; in addition to which I dis- 
covered an alien of the same group, P/antago arenaria, associated 
with Adonis autumnalis, in a crop of flax on the Woodside farm, 
Flimby, in 1884. 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
Salsola kali; on many parts of the coast, frequent; a prickly 
plant, not unlike a seedling Whin; the young sprouts are some- 
