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I would just remark that during the three last summers I have 

 spent some time in endeavouring to verify the accuracy of the lists 

 of unusual plants of the district left behind by former observers, 

 including the Rev. W. Richardson of Dacre; Mr. N. J. Winch of 

 Newcastle; Rev. J. Harriman of Eaglescliffe, Durham; Mr. Hutton 

 of Keswick, and others. Several plants named by these gentlemen 

 as occurring in the vicinity of Ullswater have hitherto eluded my 

 observation ; while, on the other hand, I have found many which 

 they either had not discovered, or, at any rate, if found, had not 

 recorded. 



Of the first family in the Catalogue, the Ranunculace^, I may 

 mention the occurrence of Thalidrum alpinum in some of the 

 little rills at the eastern base of Helvellyn, close to the head of the 

 Red Tarn. Hundreds may be collected there, but I have never 

 yet been able to find them in the flowering stage, or even with 

 stems fairly developed. Another of the family, Thalictrum minus, 

 \ax. Jlexuosum, may be found on both shores of the lake, where 

 dry gravel beds occur. Ranunculus fiuitans, a most peculiar 

 looking plant, may be seen in the bed of the River Eamont a little 

 below Pooley Bridge. As far as I can discover, I have been the 

 first to notice its existence in Cumberland. Its long, delicate, 

 thread-likelstems, of a light green colour,' form a very pretty object 

 floating^n the water and waving backwards and forwards in the 

 current. Its leaves are all submersed, forked, and setaceous. In 

 a rapid stream the flowers are rarely developed ; but where the 

 roots are anchored behind some protecting block of stone, its 

 lovely white flowers may be found about midsummer. Examples 

 occur close to the ancient weir at the Eelstank. Aquilegia vulgaris 

 may also be found on the Cumberland shore of the lake, about 

 half a mile above Gowbarrow Hall, and near the mouth of Airey 

 Beck. Last summer I was astonished to discover this plant 

 growing in a rugged ravine on the mountain side, immediately 

 above Dowthwaite Head, at an elevation of little under 1500 feet 

 above sea level, on the face of rocks perennially wet with water 

 dripping from a still higher level. 



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