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order, the Dodder, Cuscuia, I have not been able to find any 

 species near us. 



Of the SoLANACE/E we have the Hyoscyamus niger^ which occa- 

 sionally occurs on waste ground ; Dalston Green and other places 

 are given as localities for it ; last year it was found near Corby. 

 The 3'. nigrum I know of only as a casual in a garden at Stanwix. 

 S. dulcamara is common about the hedges around Kingmoor, on 

 Stainton Banks, etc.; and in autumn its pretty clusters of red egg- 

 shaped berries look very tempting, especially to children, who 

 ought to be taught not to eat any wild fruit or fungi without first 

 knowing what it is. The other remaining plant in this order, 

 Atropa belladonna^ does not occur near Carlisle. 



The ScROPHULARiACE^ include many well-known wild flowers. 

 In the first genus, Verbascum, we have one well known plant often 

 found in gardens, V. thapsus, which may be found growing wild 

 near Dalston ; I have also found it on Beaumont Banks. It is 

 easily recognised by its thick flannel-like leaves and its tall spike 

 of yellow flowers, which only open a few at a time. We have 

 many of the Veronicas, or Speedwells, with us ; one of them 

 especially is well known, the Germander Speedwell, V. chamadrys, 

 often miscalled Forget-me-not, but still better known as Birds-eye. 

 It may be found on all our hedge banks. Others not so well 

 known, as V. serpyllifolia, may be found near Carleton, and several 

 other places ; V. scutellata, by the side of Monkhill I.ough ; 

 V. anagallis, in a ditch which runs across Kingmoor ; V. becca- 

 bunga, with its pretty blue flowers, in almost all our ditches and 

 water-courses ; V. officinalis, commonly distributed ; V. hederifolia, 

 on the Old Brampton Road, just past Stanwix villa ; V. buxbaumii, 

 in many places — near Dalston, St. Ann's, etc. This last plant, on 

 a heap of stones just past St. Ann's, flowered through all last 

 winter. In spring it died, and I have not seen it since on the same 

 place. This plant is an alien, now become a colonist. Of the 

 Bartsias we have only one, B. odontites, a late-flowering plant, 

 which may be found by any of our roadsides at the end of summer. 

 Euphrasia officinalis is a common meadow- and heath plant with 



