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The second family, BERBERACEiE, includes only one species, the 

 Common Barberry, well known in our gardens and shrubberies. 

 Next in order stand the NYMPHEACEiE, or Waterlilies, of which 

 Nymphea alba occurs in Brothers Water, on the side next to the 

 highway, below Brownrigg's hotel. 



The PAPAVERACEiE are but poorly represented, having declined 

 in numbers considerably with the withdrawal of land from tillage. 

 One of its members, however, Meconopsis cambrica, appears to have 

 estabUshed itself more firmly than of yore, and may be found 

 about old walls and hedgerows in close proximity to gardens, 

 whence it has probably escaped. 



The next family, the Fumariacea:, have diminished in numbers 

 from the same cause as the poppies. The trailing Corydalis 

 claviculata may be noticed in several localities. It is probably 

 best represented by several patches which occur on the Gowbarrow 

 Fells, near Collier Hag ; also on the breast of Place Fell, near the 

 Patterdale slate-quarries. 



The extensive family of Crucifer^e, like the preceding, have 

 decreased with the decline of tillage. One of the rarest of the 

 tribe, Raphanus raphanistrum, may be seen occasionally about the 

 old farmsteads at Bennet Head, in Watermillock. Another com- 

 paratively scarce member of the family is Arabis hirsnta. It 

 appears on the conglomerate rock at Sparket Mill, just where the 

 tail race re-enters Dacre Beck. Our friends in Penrith may find 

 this plant on the top of the wall on Slapestones brow, and about 

 the gateway leading to the Red Hills lime works. The little hairy 

 rosette in which the root leaves are enveloped, before the stem 

 shoots forth, affords an admirable example of simplicity and 

 completeness in arrangement of the parts intended for the protection 

 of the plant from injury during the early stages of its growth. 

 Cochlearia officitialis, v. alpma, is to be found in many of the 

 mountain rills. It is difficult perhaps to make out that this plant 

 differs materially from C. officinalis; and I question the propriety 

 of increasing the number of species in our lists on apparently 

 trivial, and, it may be, accidental, varieties of form. I have 



