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Rosacea, the Rose tribe, another numerous group, including 

 roses proper, plums, cherries, strawberries, brambles, &c.; taken 

 altogether, a very interesting and difficult genus to deal with, of 

 which a few examples may be briefly noticed. Spiraea salicifolia, 

 a shrub hardly naturalised, but found about old garden hedgerows. 

 Alchemilla alpina, plentiful on the highest bluffs of our mountains. 

 In Swarthbeck, near Raven Crag, it forms the chief constituent of the 

 scanty vegetation. Comariim palustre, in boggy localities frequent ; 

 in Bannerdale Bottoms very fine specimens are met with. Riibus 

 idceus, abundant everywhere up to an altitude of 1500 feet or 

 upwards. R. ccesius, at the foot of the lake; abundant near 

 Redhills. R. saxatilis, in Airey-beck, above the hamlet of Dockray, 



in Matterdale ; on Hallin Fell, Martindale. &c. R. chaviccmorus 



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said to grow on Ladepot, above Howtown, though 1 have not seen 

 it there. Of the sub-family of Geum, or Ave?is, all the three known 

 members are present with us. Of Roses we have no great variety 

 of species, though such as we do possess are sufficiently numerous 

 to make a grand show in our coppices and hedgerows during the 

 flowering season. Rosa rubiginosa occurs in a hedgerow close to 

 Watermillock church, where it was planted by a former rector, at 

 the time of the inclosure of the commons, some fifty years ago. 



Lythrace^. Lythrum salicaria alone appears. It grows 

 sparingly in the bog known as Black Dyke, near Baldhow ; though 

 far from reaching the vigorous growth I have seen the same plant 

 assume in West Cumberland, and especially in some boggy places 

 on the banks of the River Ehen, not far from Frizington. 



Onagrace^. The Willow Herbs are abundant, from the larger 

 Epilobium angusti/olium, and E. hirsutunt, down to the dwarf 

 E. alsinifolium, which is found in many of the alpine springs. 

 Fine examples occur in the rills on Kirkstone Pass. Both forms 

 of Enchanter's Nightshade grow by the lake, and in the neighbouring 

 woods. Millefolium, Water Milfoil, abounds in the lake and many 

 of its feeders. Two varieties of Callilric/ie, Water Starwort, also 

 abound in slow running mountain rills. Some fine specimens 

 grow in Bannerdale Bottoms, also in the^boggy meadows at the 

 head of Brother's Water. 



