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branched from the base upwards, having smaller flowers. Frequently 

 met with in ditches, and in furrows in corn-fields where water has 

 stood during the previous winter. G. dioicum : I have observed 

 this Cudweed only once in the UUswater district, near a place at 

 Gowbarrow known as the Coombes ; and there it was so cropped 

 by sheep and rabbits that, had I not been familiar of old with the 

 plant, I might have passed it over. It grows plentifully on Brockle 

 Crag, on the N.W. of Skiddaw. Senecio saracenicus : this giant 

 member of the Groundsel family appears in a paddock at Thack- 

 thwaite ; also near the ancient homesteads at Stoddah, in the 

 adjoining township of Hutton Soil. This proximity to dwellings 

 seems to imply that the plant now under notice was at one period 

 the object of cultivation. I'ragopogon jyratensis : of wide distri- 

 bution, though nowhere appearing in great numbers. About 

 roadsides and hedge-banks on both sides of the lake. The plumes 

 attached to the upper part of the seeds have a singularly graceful 

 appearance, and readily distinguish the Meadow Goat's-beard from 

 other members of the Composite tribe. Two types of Sow-thistle, 

 Sonchus asper and aS*. arvensis, are of frequent occurrence. The 

 large yellow flowers of the latter are occasionally too conspicuous 

 in corn crops in the lower parts of Cumberland. 



Of the Hawk Weeds proper — a puzzling f a.mi]y— Ilieracium 

 pilosella is the most abundant and widely distributed. On most 

 dry banks its hoary procumbent stems and leaves, and its bright 

 lemon-coloured flowers, the outer edges tipped with crimson, are 

 of common occurrence. E. anglicum : one of my most recent 

 finds, dating only from August, 1881. I met with it in the ravine 

 which descends from the Cawdale slate quarries, near the Brother's 

 Water hotel, and after vainly calling in the counsel of local 

 botanists, it was ultimately identified by the curator of Kew 

 Gardens. This plant is the H. cerinthoides of some botanists. 

 H. umbellatum : except //. pilosella, this is perhaps the earliest 

 flowering member of the family, a circumstance that first led me to 

 distinguish it from II. boreale, the common form seen by waysides 

 and the edges of cornfields about harvest time. 



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