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several places — Wetheral, Hesket, Grinsdale, &c., but always, I 

 think, as a garden-escape. It is easily known by its fine purple 

 flowers and its leaves streaked with white. L. purpureum, or Bad 

 Man's Posy of the children, is everywhere; a white variety in Barras 

 Lonning, Dalston. L. album, on the banks of the Eden near Linstock. 

 L. ijicisum is found at Blackwell. Of the Hemp Nettles, Galeopsis, ' 

 I think we have only two : one is G. tetrahit, which is to be met 

 with everywhere, and whose flowers vary in all shades between 

 purple and white. The nearest place I have found G. versicolor is 

 Cargo ; though it is very common a little further north. This has 

 a very handsome yellow and purple flower, and it might well be 

 introduced into our gardens as an annual. In the Woundworts, 

 Stachys, we have one plant, which is greatly in use among herbahsts, 

 ^. betoiiica, and not without reason I think, judging by what I have 

 have heard of its properties from disinterested persons. Used 

 regularly it is almost a certain cure for nervous headaches. Its 

 fame is not confined to our country ; the Italians have a proverb 

 which says, "Sell your shirt, but buy betony." Two other Wound- 

 worts are common with us, S. sylvatica and 6". palustris ; a 

 hybrid between the two, ambigua, was found this year at Dalston. 

 5. arveiisis occurs near Blackwell. Nepeta gleckoftia, a little 

 creeping plant with a strong aromatic smell, grows on many of our 

 hedge sides. This has many old-fashioned names, such as Gill- 

 run-along-the-ground, from its habit ; Alehoof, from its being used 

 to impart a bitter flavour to that and other beverages. Marriibiufn 

 vulgare is found at Dalston. Prunella vulgaris is very common, 

 and is a plant which often retrogades, as white varieties are not 

 uncommon. Scutellaria galericulata, a rare plant with us, is found 

 near William's Wood. 



The next order, BoraginacEjE, includes the Scorpion Grasses 

 or Forget-me-nots, though really to only one of them, Myosotis 

 palustris, does this name belong. It is common by most of our 

 streams. M. caspiiosa may be found on the Scar ; M. collifia, near 

 Corby ; M. versicolor, on the Kingmoor road. Lithospermum 

 arvense, at Cummersdale. One of the fields belonging to the 

 Corporation is called Grumwell Meadow, possibly being named 



