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especially by woodland hedgerows. Near the bridge at Hartsope, 

 and elsewhere. 



Malvaceae. Althcea officinalis, a plant largely used by the rural 

 population as an emollient for sprains and swellings, is chiefly 

 found about the boundaries of old gardens and orchards, nowhere, 

 perhaps, truly wild. Its congener, however, Malva moschaia^ 

 frequently makes its appearance about quarry grounds, where its 

 roots strike deeply into the rubbish heaps thrown aside by the 

 workmen. A very handsome plant bearing large flowers of rosy-pink 

 hue, with deeply-notched petals. About Birk-Crag quarry, &c. 



TiLiACE^. Of this family only one member is present, Tilia 

 europcea, or T. intermedia, of De Candolle and other writers ; the 

 Common Lime Tree of our shrubberies and avenues. 



LiNACEyE is represented by a single member, Linum catkarticum, 

 of almost universal occurrence, from an altitude of 2000 feet to the 

 level of the lake. 



GERANiACEiE. Of this elegant genus of plants, many representa- 

 tives are indigenous to the district. Geranium ph<Kum is found on 

 a shady hedgebank at Stock 's-n 00k, in Watermillock, an outcast 

 possibly from the ancient garden of the mansion-house. G. lucidum, 

 with its glossy leaves, which assume a lively reddish tinge when the 

 plant has reached maturity, is everywhere common in the vicinity 

 of dwellings. The well-known Oxalis acetosella is abundant. 



iLiCACEiE, of which the Common Holly is the only British 

 species, also has its home with us. In the woods about Gowbarrow 

 and Lyulph's Tower, as well as in many parts of Patterdale, this 

 fine evergreen grows luxuriantly and spontaneously. 



Celastrace.'e, like the last mentioned genus, can boast of only 

 a single type indigenous to Britain, Euonymus europceus, which old 

 writers mention as occurring by the shore of the lake in Gowbarrow 

 Park, where I have hunted for it without success. 



RHAMNACEiE includes but two British species. I only refer to 

 it here, because in the course of last summer I detected one of its 

 members growing near the top of Slapestones. In the absence of 



