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more than two hundred years ago, where it is still to be found ; 

 and I was overjoyed not long ago to find it growing close to the 

 line of rails a little to the east of Siddick Junction. Orobus 

 tiiberosus ] only sometimes found towards the shore line, but 

 tolerably abundant in woodlands and heathy ground. 



Rosacea. — Pniniis spinosa, a well-known and common shrub 

 in hedgerows and brakes. Spircca uliiiaria, in ditches and moist 

 meadows almost universally found. Agriinonia eiipatoria; this is a 

 plant of some reputation among cottage "medicine-men," and so 

 eagerly sought after that it is becoming year by year of less frequent 

 occurrence ; in some of its old stations already extinct, but still to 

 be met with at no great distance from the shore. Sanguisorba 

 officinalis; this plant is supposed to possess valuable properties 

 as a constituent of superior meadow hay. Alchetnilla vulgaris, 

 common in moist meadow and pasture lands. Foteniilla fragari- 

 astrum ; on dry banks not rare, and flowers early. F. torinen- 

 tilla; on dry sandy or heathy ground. P. reptans; less frequent 

 than the preceding, very variable in character. P. anserina 

 is well-known, and as a crop-weed very unfavourably regarded by 

 agriculturists, yet not without use to the human species, since Dr. 

 Hooker states that its root-stocks are eaten in seasons of scarcity 

 by the natives of the Hebrides. Coinarum palustre, found only in 

 deep boggy ground; plentiful in Salta Moss, by Dubmill. Fragaria 

 vesca ] from early childhood most of us have known this wayside 

 favourite, the common Wild Strawberry. 



With a feeling ot profound diffidence I come now to speak of 

 the Brambles ; not that their spine-beset branches inspire me with 

 dread, but because of their number and the extreme nicety of the 

 distinctions which separate one species from another; moreover it 

 is not more than about two years since my first attempts were made 

 in this direction. Rubus idceiis is easily known; not common on any 

 part of the coast, it is yet specially plentiful in the interior of 

 Lakeland, and children go raspberrying there as commonly as 

 hereabouts you see them foraying for "black-kites." Of the 

 remaining species and intermediate varieties, the following occur 



