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abundant in the district, though rather on open moors than close 

 to the tideway. Genista anglica approaches the shore on the north 

 side of the Wampool estuary, near Anthorn ; a pretty little shrub ; 

 on Seaton Moor, etc., abundant. G. tinctoria, along with the last- 

 mentioned. Sarothamnus scoparius ; at many points along the 

 coast may be seen blossoming in great profusion. Ononis spinosa, 

 and O. arvensis, are by many authorities looked upon as varieties 

 of the same species ; the smooth-stalked type is much the more 

 prevalent. It is Mr. Baker's opinion that the true spinosa is not 

 found hereabouts. The finest specimens I know grow about Silloth, 

 but the Restharrow flourishes along the entire coast. Anthyllis 

 vulneraria; frequently found in situations where the surface has 

 been disturbed ; behind the iron furnaces here its sulphur-tinted 

 •flowers are more numerous and finer than I have elsewhere seen. 

 Medicago hpulina, and Melilotus officinalis, are of casual occurrence 

 along the shore, as at Workington north shore, Flimby, etc.* 

 Trifoliuni pratense, and T. medium ; the latter grows frequently 

 in soils where the other species would certainly fail. A sea-side 

 station seems somehow to intensify the colouring of flowers ; there 

 were some fine specimens of Cowgrass beyond Siddick this season, 

 where the salt spray would doubtless reach them, and the colour 

 was very brilliant. T. arvense ; this curiously-tufted clover appears 

 commonly on dry gravel banks all along the coast line ; after the 

 new passenger station was built at Maryport, it sprang up in 

 abundance round the building, where patches of it yet remain ; it 

 is rarely found growing far inland, yet the the gravelly village green 

 at Dalston is in places quite covered with these plants. 71 repens 

 is the well-known white, or, as it is sometimes styled, Dutch 

 Clover. T. procumbens^ so named from the resemblance of its 

 heads of pale yellow flowers to those of the hop plant, is quite 

 common, and so too is T. minus, the origin probably of the 

 cultivated form, from which it differs but little in appearance. 

 T.filiforme; in the beautiful manuscript botany of the late Mr. 



The variety M. parviflora appears among other casuals on the heaps of 

 rubbish behind the slag banks near Maryport, where also specimens of Medicago 

 denticulata, var. apiculata, have been discovered since the paper was read. 



