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wanderers, I would strongly advise them to make a note of the 

 time, place, and surroundings of each. 



Generally speaking, the great bulk of our grasses and the major 

 part of our indigenous shrubs and forest trees, may be set down as 

 occurring within the limits of the Midagrarian zone, or at an 

 altitude of less than goo feet. The exceptions will be noticed by 

 and bye. With the London Catalogue in my hand, I will endeavour 

 in the order there set down, to particularise a few of the plants 

 characteristic of our Lakeland Flora which are to be found at an 

 elevation of 900 feet and upwards. 



The first species that occurs is Thalictrum alpinum, a diminutive 

 but very pretty little plant which I have seen growing in rills on 

 Helvellyn, or on the surface of moist rocks over the Red Tarn, at 

 the very spot where the unfortunate Mr. Gough met with his 

 melancholy fate in the spring of 1806. Thalictrum minus, v. moti- 

 tanum, is found on the cliffs of Catchedicam. Several of the Crow- 

 foot family, as Ranunculus lenortnatidi, JR. hederaceus, R. flamimila, 

 R. acris, and others, inhabit fell becks and moist situations up to 

 an altitude of 2000 feet, and in some instances still higher. I 

 have seen Aquilegia vulgaris growing on the face of perennially- 

 dripping rocks over Dowthwaite Head in Matterdale. Corydalis 

 claviculata appears about the bases of our mountains in many of 

 the dales. Comparatively few of the Crucifers attain an elevation 

 exceeding that of common cereal tillage. Cardamine sylvatica 

 grows on Yew Crag over Ullswater ; and Cochlearia officinalis, and 

 its variety alpina* may both be met with in running water up to an 

 altitude of quite 3000 feet. Teesdalia nudicaulis grows on Carrock, 

 Place Fell, Swarth Fell, etc., and is most frequently met with where 

 the surface has been disturbed. Helianthe?7ium vulgare, a limestone- 

 loving flower, is found about Park Head on Warnell, and on some 

 of the calcareous hills of Westmorland. Viola palustris in bogs, 

 and V. lutea on dry mountain sides, are of common occurrence ; 

 while the different species of Drosera may all be discovered in 

 boggy localities, D. rotundifolia being, however, far the most 



* Mr. J. G. Baker, F. R.S., of the Kew Herbarium, refers all the upland 

 Scurvy-Grasses to the variety alpina. 



