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growing about the base of the retaining wall of the railway, towards 

 the beach, near Flimby station; the late Rev. R. Wood of Westward 

 also discovered it some years ago at Allonby. C. glomeratum 

 frequently occurs about places where water has stood during the 

 winter months. The next species, however, C. triviale, is far the 

 most abundant and widely-distributed member of this family ; 

 about the quarries to the north of Maryport it grows in great 

 profusion. C. semidecandrum appears on the beach near Bank End. 

 Stellaria media is too abundant everywhere to need description ; 

 the variety b. boneana grows about some gardens near the Sun Inn, 

 Flimby ; the flowers are as a rule without petals. 5. holostea is a 

 common ornament of hedge -banks. 6". graminea is equally common : 

 a weak straggling plant, depending for support upon the shrubs — 

 as gorse or brambles — among which it delights to grow. 6'. uliginosa 

 is also common, but loves damp, and usually finds a place at the 

 edge of ditches or slow-running brooks. Arenaria serpyllifolia ; 

 frequent among the ballast along the railway, or about the edges 

 of dry embankments. Honkeneya peploides ; no plant of the beach 

 is more abundant than this ; its thick glossy leaves are conspicuous 

 everywhere ; it is frequently mistaken for a Sedum or Stonecrop by 

 persons imperfectly aquainted with botany. Sagina apetala ; I 

 cannot say positively that I have seen this species upon the beach ; 

 but it is a common garden weed of the outskirts of Whitehaven, as 

 at Corkickle, etc. S. procumbens; greatly more abundant than 

 the last mentioned, indeed almost ubiquitous ; about the quarries 

 referred to above hundreds of examples occur. Spergula arvefisis, 

 too well and widely known as an agricultural pest; the "dodder" 

 of the Abbey Holm farmers, and the "blore" of the inhabitants of 

 Gosforth Bottoms, by whom it is held in equal detestation ; on 

 St. Helen's farm it abounds, and large-flowering specimens in 

 plenty grew about Siddick last season (1885). Spergularia rubra, 

 with its pretty little pink flowers, occurs along the whole extent of 

 coast up to the mouth of the Eden. 



PoRTULACACE^. — Motitia fontana ; this well known tenant of 

 "well-eyes," "totter-bogs," and mountain rills, grows plentifully in 



