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long been the object of systematic and relentless plunder, and has 
been obliterated entirely from many erewhile noted stations ; it is 
doubtful if we may ever again see potatoe carts covered with its 
fronds, for the protection of the vegetables from frost during their 
transit to market, as was quite a common occurrence at White- 
haven and Egremont within living memory. Ophioglossum vulgatum, 
the common Adder’s Tongue, I take to be much more plentiful 
than is commonly supposed, being quickly shrouded from observa- 
tion in meadows by the surrounding vegetation, and cropped by 
cattle in ground devoted to grazing purposes. Botrychium lunaria, 
the last in our list of Ferns, is found within a stone’s cast of the 
beach at different stations ; a few plants had the temerity to spring 
up on Flimby Green, close to the houses, in 1886; I expect they 
were quickly removed, for I saw no trace of them in 1887. 
LYCOPODIACE. 
The Wolves’ Feet being natives of the hills, form no part of 
seaside vegetation, though I have met with one of their number, 
Lycopodium selago, at Salta. 
EQUISETACES. 
Equisetum arvense, ‘Paddock Pipes” and ‘‘Tead Pipes” of the 
husbandman, is abundant wherever moisture prevails ; on newly- 
formed railway embankments the female spikes are conspicuous 
objects in April and early May. £. maximum, abundant on the 
coast near Braystones, St. Bees, Harrington, Flimby. 
