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Of the Grossulariace^, stray plants occur certainly, but only 

 as waifs from cultivation. 



Crassulace>e. In these the district is rich. Sedum rhodiola 

 grows upon the rocks on Striding Edge, hard by the place where 

 the unfortunate Mr. Gough perished in 1806. 6". telephium is 

 common. S. album, by the lake shore at Raven Crag, and also at 

 the foot of the lake. They who have visited the old slate quarries 

 at Patterdale, may have seen a wonderful carpeting of S. acre on 

 the roadway there. S. re^exum on old walls about the curtilages 

 of dwellings. Our village maidens call it " Love in a chain." 



SAXiFRAGACEiE. Another well-represented family. Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia, growing on the same rocks with Sedum rhodiola, 

 flowers too early in the season to be noticed by most of the lake 

 visitors. 6". stellaris and S. aizoides both abound in watery places. 

 The former I have observed within a few feet of the summit of 

 Helvellyn. ^. hypnoides, in many of the higher ravines. About 

 the workmen's sheds at the Cawdale Moor quarries it is very 

 abundant ; and really forms a velvety cushion for the floors of some 

 of the now roofless huts. Both types of Golden Saxifrage may be 

 found ; and the handsome Grass of Parnassus gladdens the eyes 

 of every mountain rambler in the autumn season, when alone it is 

 seen to perfection. 



UMBELLiFERiE. There being upwards of sixty species included 

 in the catalogue of such plants indigenous to Britain, of which the 

 district cannot claim quite twenty, it cannot be held that our flora 

 of umbellifers is a complete one. There are, however, two or 

 three species which ought not to pass unnoticed. Sanicula europoea: 

 Unsheltered situations; not rare. Near Beauthorn and Croft Head, 

 very fine ; also near Waterfoot boat-shed. Pimpinella saxifraga: 

 the commonest of the genus in the later summer months; in 

 meadows and copses not unfrequent. Peucedanum ostruihium: as 

 this is somewhat of a botanical rarity, I was surprised to find a 

 stray plant near the mouth of the Airey rivulet three years ago. 

 I have since seen it in abundance by the same stream, just below 

 Dowthwaite Head. Cow-leeches of old used it in their practice, 



