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verna is frequent on dry gravelly beaches ; about the Salt Pans, 

 east of Bank End, large patches may be seen ; one of our earliest 

 flowering plants, diminutive in size. D. bicaiia has been found 

 near Seascale. Camelma sativa, in Cumberland regarded as a 

 waif from cultivation ; I have found it on the ballast heaps about 

 Silloth, and two years ago it made its appearance in the garden 

 belonging to Gill Bank College, Whitehaven, whence it was 

 forwarded to me for identification, together with Caucalis daucoides 

 and Saponaria vaccaria. Thlaspi arverise; I gathered a single 

 plant of this species on the beach behind Risehow in August, 1884, 

 the only example that I have met with in Cumberland. Teesdalia 

 nudicaulis, I have seen growing on a dry hedge-bank near the 

 village of Mawbray. Capsella biirsa-pastoris ; no weed of cultivation 

 is more generally distributed than this species. Lepidium smithii, 

 not unusually occurring on dry banks, and certainly a well- 

 established native, while L. draba, t;he next plant in the Catalogue, 

 is extremely rare ; two or three plants grew among the rubbish 

 heaps at Risehow, where also in 1884 I gathered a specimen of 

 Rapistrum rugosuni, a cruciferous plant not included in the 

 London Catalogue, and therefore not to be classed among plants 

 considered as indigenous to Britain, 



Resedace^. — Reseda hifeola, a common occupant of rubbish 

 heaps ; a few plants grow about the edges of the slag mounds at 

 both Maryport'and Workington. R. lutea, a much smaller plant, 

 is found on the Furness Railway, near Braystones or Coulderton. 



ViOLACEiE. — Viola canina ; in all my botanical ramblings far or 

 near I have nowhere seen such beautiful types of this flower as are 

 to be met with during early summer near St. Helen's farm, or 

 Siddick. Viola tricolor ; grows by hundreds in patches among the 

 sandhills along the shore to the south of St. Bees, especially in 

 situations where the undergrowth of gorse and brambles has been 

 removed by burning ; the var. (b) arvensis, with small white or 

 cream-tinted petals, may be gathered sparingly at intervals along 

 the coast. 



Droserace^. — Drosera rotundifolia, a plant more at home in 



