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Bladderwort ; but the edges of the leaf are simply enrolled. 

 Hapless insects creeping under these for any purpose whatever — 

 food or shelter — find too surely that they cannot get out, as the 

 edges ot the leaves close upon them. The Bladderwort, Vtricularia, 

 I have not been able to find in this district ; though I still hope to 

 do so some day, as we have some places very likely for it. 



The next order, Primulace/E, contains some favourite flowers ; 

 though one of them, the Primrose, Primula vulgaris, I am sorry 

 to say, is fast disappearing from the neighbourhood of our city ; it 

 still leaves its trace in the "Primrose" Banks around us. Primrose 

 only in name now. The Primrose has adapted itself admirably 

 for the purposes of cross fertilization ; a study of pin centres and 

 rose centres, as they are called by gardeners, will well repay all the 

 attention that is given to them. The Cowslip, P. veris, is very 

 abundant in many of the holmes by the side of the Eden ; and in 

 situations where the Primrose and the Cowslip meet, may often be 

 found hybrids between the two, called Oxlips ; though not the 

 real Oxlip, P. elatior, of botanists, which grows only in one or two 

 of the S.E. counties of England. Of Loosestrifes, Lysimachia, we 

 have but one, L. nemoruni, which grows freely about Wetheral and 

 Corby Woods. Aiiagallis arvensis, or Poor Man's Weather Glass, 

 is not uncommon in the fields about Kingmoor. This gets one of 

 its names from always closing its petals before rain ; I at least 

 know of one instance where it did not do so ; but the exception 

 might prove the rule. Glaux maritima grows on Rockchffe 

 Green. 



In the next order, Plumbaginace^, Armeria maritima grows in 

 profusion on Rockcliffe Marsh, and to see acres of it in bloom at 

 once is a sight worth seeing. We have the whole of the Plantains, 

 Plantago, and in a walk from say, Stanwix to Rockcliffe, you might 

 find them. P. major and P. lanceolata, are common everywhere ; 

 P. media, on Stainton Banks, and all down by the side of the 

 Eden. P. coronopus and P. maritima, on Rockcliffe Green and 

 Marsh. On our excursion to Caldbeck we found this last plant 

 growing very fine on Warnell Fell. 



In the next orders, Chenopodiace.e and Polvgonace^, are 



