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THE BOTANY OF THE SOLWAY SHORE. 

 By W. HODGSON, A.L.S. 



(Read at Maryport. ) 



At present the sea appears to be slowly but steadily encroaching 

 upon the coast of West Cumberland. At Flimby this is quite 

 marked, as it is also to the S. of Workington Harbour ; and many 

 plants that existed there within my own recollection have utterly 

 disappeared. Of these I may mention in passing Crambe maritima, 

 Hordaim maritiinum, Phleum arenariiim, Scandix pecten-veneris, 

 Euphorbia paralias, Hyoscyamus niger, etc., all of which grew 

 formerly along the beach between Maryport and Flimby. On the 

 other hand, several casuals or waifs from cultivation have recently 

 been detected growing upon heaps of household rubbish deposited 

 on the beach between Risehow and the Senhouse Dock, Maryport. 

 These last include several Crucifers, as Rapistrutn rugosum, Sisym- 

 brium sophia, Brassica rapa, Thlaspi arvense, Lepidium draba, 

 and Raphaiius Jtiariiimus. Other than Crucifers are Saponaria 

 vaccaria, Echinospermum lappula, Anagallis coerulea, Lolium perenne, 

 v. ramosum (a giant type of ryegrass), Anthemis cottila, Chrysan- 

 themum coronarium, and lastly Asperugo procumbetis, which I 

 gathered early in June of the present year (1886). 



Ranunculace^. — Thalictnim minus, a. maritimum, the Vicar 

 of Rosley assures me is found a little beyond Skinburness, towards 

 the Grune Point. Anemone tiemorosa, though not strictly a shore 

 plant, yet occurs here and there but little removed from the beach, 



