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_ times preserved in vinegar, and in that form are locally known as 
“Parton Pickle ;” a wanderer, so to speak, among plants, it has a 
habit of disappearing for years from stations which it previously 
occupied. Salicornia herbacea is also subjected to the same 
treatment as the preceding, and is called by the operators 
“samphire”—not to be confounded with the Samphire of Shake- 
speare, which, in these parts, grows only about the cliffs at 
St. Bees Head. Sadzcornia has been found at Ravenglass, Work- 
ington, near the Grune Point, Skinburness, and at Cardurnock, 
on the opposite side of the Wampool estuary. ela maritima; 
on the rocky shore near Parton, not plentiful. This plant has 
appeared in considerable numbers among heaps of ships’ ballast 
near Maryport harbour in 1887; where the ballast came from I 
have not been able to ascertain; from the many loose fragments 
of slate rock scattered about, I am inclined to think that it came 
from some Welsh port. Chenopodium album; the ‘‘meols” or 
“myles” of cottage gardeners is everywhere abundant; the var. 
b. viride gathered on household rubbish on the beach at Risehow. 
C. urbicum; a single example met with on the ballast heaps at 
Maryport in 1886. C. rubrum; associated with the foregoing ; 
the ground is just now being covered with fresh layers of ballast, 
and the plants may be looked upon as exterminated. C. bonus 
henricus ; about most of the old villages, hamlets, and farm tofts 
along the coast ; formerly in culinary request, but now superseded 
by Spinach. <AZriplex littoralis; associated with Beta maritima, 
Mercurialis annua, &c., on the ballast heaps already referred to ; 
it has also been reported from the sea shore at Parton, by the 
Rev. F. Addison, formerly of Cleator. A. angustifolia, and 
_ A. deltoidea ; both on the beach at Risehow and Maryport; the 
former is a common agrarian weed in many parts of the county. 
A. triangularis is mentioned in the Whitehaven Catalogue as 
occurring at St. Bees; possibly a mistake for déltoidea. A. babing- 
tonii ; this species has been observed at different stations on the 
coast, as at Coulderton, Lowca, Flimby, and Allonby; at Flimby 
the inroads of the sea seem to have exterminated it ; it grows with 
those already mentioned about Maryport. A. arenaria is, to all 
