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considerably higher than the little inn of Kirkstone Pass, which is 
only 1500 feet above the sea, and whose supremacy in elevation is 
a guide-book myth. Nearly all the mountain tarns are found 
between goo and 1800 feet ; above which point Bracken, Foxglove, 
Heather, Lousewort, Grass of Parnassus—no longer grow ; nor are 
any trees met with, except a scanty Juniper or Rowan on the 
higher crags. Between 1800 and 2700 feet two tarns only exist, 
Red Tarn and Sprinkling Tarn; the rest is bare hill and slate, 
containing an Alpine flora, with mosses and aquatic plants 
bordering the highest springs. Above 2700 feet, on the summits of 
the highest hills, are two plants only, the Dwarf Willow (Salix 
herbacea), and an Alpine variety of Carex (C. vigida). 
The following plants, familiar or not uncommon in many parts 
of England, are, so far as I know, altogether absent from the 
Lakes :—Mousetail, Stock, Cabbage, Tamarisk, Sea Mallow, Field 
Eryngo, Parsnip, Madder, Small Teasle, Milk Thistle, Large 
Burdock, Ivy-leaved Hairbell, Dodder, Fringed Bogbean, Pointed 
Toadflax (Zinaria elatine), Cornish Moneywort, Broomrape, Wild 
Sage, Water Violet, Large Water Dock, Annual Mercury, Sa/oza 
verbenacea, Sweet Rush, Stinking Iris, Frog-bit, Chara. Rarer 
plants not found within your boundaries are Pasque Flower, 
Cotoneaster, Marsh Sowthistle, Lovage, Linnzea, Meadow Sage, 
Blue Gromwell, Gibbous Duckweed, Galingale. 
Plants not altogether wanting, but rarely met with in the Lakes, 
are the Medlar, of which two trees only are recorded wild, both in 
Walney ; Small Mallow, Pennywort, Samphire, Miseltoe, Scotch 
Thistle, Bird’s Nest, Common Bindweed, two Fleabanes (Z7igeron 
acre and Znula dysenterica), the two Horehounds (AZarrubium and 
Ballota), Calaminth, the Spiked- and the Ivy-leaved Speedwells, Sea 
Convolvulus, Dewberry, Weaselsnout, Bugloss, Viper’s Bugloss, 
Houndstongue, Pyramidal Orchis, Fritillary, Autumn Crocus, 
Water Soldier, and the four ferns— Woodsia, Thelypteris, Asplenium 
septentrionale and A. lanceolatum. 
Plants on the other hand, comparatively rare elsewhere, but met 
with in the Lakes, are the Spearwort, Baneberry, Barrenwort, 
Moss Campion, Balsam, Dryas, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Alpine Lady’s 
