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Rooke of Whitehaven, is a drawing of this extremely rare plant, 

 marked "St. Bees, 1845." Lotus corniculatus adorns almost every 

 dry hillock of undisturbed ground, whetlier inland or on the beach. 

 L. ?najor, not so plentiful as the last, and preferring moist localities, 

 as damp hedgerows and meadows. Ornithopus perpusillus ; several 

 patches occur close to the pathway that runs parallel to the 

 railway behind the West Cumberland Iron Works at Workington ; 

 a few are observable on Flimby Green. Vicia hirsuta; a 

 few straggling plants on the broken rocky ground about Parton, 

 and towards Harrington. V. cracca, a very common species, 

 distinguished by its drooping racemes of blue flowers ; a climbing 

 plant, seldom found self-supporting, but clinging to bushes by its 

 tendrils. V. sylvatica ; large patches of this beautiful species 

 clothe the rocky bluffs that overlook the beach from Harrington 

 westward ; it is far from being a common plant ; in the locality 

 just mentioned, it is of a trailing habit of growth, the stems 

 attaining a length of three or four feet, but in woodland situations 

 it may be seen quite overtopping shrubs and coppice-wood at a 

 height of eight or nine feet, by means of its powerful branching 

 tendrils ; its long lax drooping racemes of creamy white flowers 

 delicately striped and tipped with violet, are extremely pretty, 

 and I am tempted to think would be very ornamental objects 

 in a shrubbery. V. sepium is a common hedgerow plant. 

 V. sativa is cultivated by farmers for forage, and is seldom 

 seen wild; several patches of it were, however, observable in 

 July last (1885) growing on mossy ground at Dubmill , its 

 habit was quite changed : having no support, the branches 

 assumed a procumbent form, each plant covering a circular 

 space of about two feet in diameter, studded all over with 

 lovely crimson and purple flowers. V. angusttfoHa, though very 

 rare in many parts, is abundant on the beach from Workington to 

 Maryport; it flowers rather earlier than the preceding species. 

 Lathyrus prate?ists, in bushy places not unfrequent. Z. sylvestris; 

 this rare and remarkably handsome wild flower, which resembles 

 the Everlasting Pea of gardens, was reported by the celebrated 

 Mr. Ray as growing on the rocks at Redness Point, near Parton, 



