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after the common form of this plant, which in old herbals is spelled 

 Gromvel. Symphytum officinale, a plant much used now in many 

 places for cattle-feeding purposes, may be found with white flowers 

 by the side of the Eden, near Linstock ; while the purple-flowered 

 one has been found near the Cross Roads, Harker. Borago 

 officinalis, a plant in great request at one time for many purposes, 

 occurs about Rockcliffe, Dalston, and Stanwix. Its leaves are 

 still used in the making of "claret cup," and for other inviting 

 drinks ; but I cannot hear of its being used as a salad now ; it is 

 a very useful plant to bee-keepers, and ought to be carefully 

 cultivated by them. Lycopsis arvensis, a small hispid plant with 

 blue flowers, is not uncommon in many of our cornfields, and it 

 often occurs round Stainton. Cynoglosswn officinale §^o\\i somewhat 

 commonly about Dalston Green, and the colour of its flowers, 

 dark claret, is almost unique among wild flowers. The Dusky 

 Cranesbill, Geranium pheum, is something like it, but darker. Its 

 properties are both narcotic and astringent, and the name is said 

 to be derived from the resemblance of the rough texture of the 

 leaves to a hound's tongue. Legend saith the leaf ties the tongues 

 of hounds — how, I cannot tell you. Pubnonaria officinalis grows 

 with us only as a garden escape, and I think is not really a native. 

 Its former use in lung complaints was due, I believe, to the 

 principle of "like curing like," the spotted leaves resembling in 

 appearance an animal's lungs. Echiiim vulgare is conunon enough 

 about the docks at Silloth, but is rare with us. I have seen it in 

 the neighbourhood of the Stony Holme. 



Belonging to the next order, Lentibulariace^, is the Butter- 

 wort, Pinguicida vulgaris, a not-uncommon bog plant. I met with 

 it on Kingmoor some three or four years ago ; but have not seen 

 it since. It may be found on Harker and Todhills mosses, and is 

 easily recognised by its rosette of pale yellow leaves, lying close to 

 the ground, and by its single purple flower, on a stem ranging 

 between three and six inches high, resembling in appearance a 

 half-closed violet. It is an insectivorous plant ; but its mode of 

 catching is quite different from our other two noted insect-catchers. 

 It has no glands nor tentacles like the Sundew ; no trap like the 



