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the Bank End stream already mentioned, down almost to high- 

 water mark. 



HvPERiCACEiE. — Hypericum perforatum, a comment plant of 

 dry ground, as H. tetraptermn is of ditch banks ; the latter is much 

 more frequently met with inland than near the coast line. B. pul- 

 chrum, occasionally seen on dry banks, as about the rocky bluffs 

 of Harrington, Parton, etc. 



Malvace^. — Malva sylvestris, occasionally seen on rubbish 

 heaps, as also about homesteads near the beach, as at AUonby, 

 Mawbray, and other places. 



LiNACE/E.^Z/;/z/w catharticum ; in some of the railway cuttings 

 and embankments common enough ; more frequent in poor than 

 in moderately rich soil. 



Geraniace^. — Geranium sanguineum; a most brilliant and 

 conspicuous flower of the coast, where alone it attains perfection ; 

 everywhere plentiful, especially so, perhaps, at Skinburness and 

 Siddick; distinguished readily by its deep crimson corolla. 

 G. pratense, the largest member of this handsome family, with 

 deep blue corolla, the petals veined with white ; stray examples 

 have been found with light-coloured, almost crimson or lilac, 

 petals ; and once I recollect meeting with a plant bearing a corolla 

 of creamy white, the veins of which stood out like threads of 

 snow. G. molle, sometimes seen along the shore ; in the fields 

 adjoining the highway near Flimby, it grows very abundantly, 

 though in a dwarfed state, owing to the poverty of the soil, which 

 largely consists of dry gravel. G. dissectum ; less common than 

 the plant just treated of, yet is sometimes seen along the gravelly 

 embankments of the railway. G. robertianum, on moist banks 

 and hedgerows a common weed. Erodium cicutarium, on waste 

 banks by the sea, frequent ; it it sometimes found far inland ; it 

 grows upon the village green at Dalston, but its proper habitat is 

 by the shore. 



Leguminifer^e. — Vlex europceus, a common ornament of dry 

 banks. V. gallii; this diminutive autumn-flowering species is 



