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that has seen a field or a country lane is probably acquainted. In 

 some parts of the kingdom this is not the case. A Dorsetshire 

 clergyman, a gentleman of Cumberland birth, assured me not long 

 ago that this plaut^ — familiar enough to us all here — has no place 

 in his parish of over 4000 acres in extent. Of the fifteen species 

 enumerated in the "London Catalogue" as indigenous to Britain, 

 the first is Lobelia dortmanna: a plant found growing in shallow 

 water around the edges of Ullswater, and other lakes. It has 

 peculiarly-formed, and rather pretty blue flowers, on a slender 

 footstalk, rising above the surface of the water to the height of a 

 foot or thereabouts. Abundant in a mountain pond near Giller- 

 thwaite in Ennerdale. Jasione montana : not unfrequent on dry 

 banks in Lower Hartsop and Patterdale ; though far from being so 

 plentiful as on some of the low sandy hills or " eskers" that lie 

 between Aspatria and the Solway. Campanula glomerata: appears 

 just outside the limits of my district, about Gospel How, Penrud- 

 dock. Our Penrith friends may find it about Redhills, as I have 

 noticed a few plants near Slapestones top, with clusters of 

 purple-coloured flowers. C. latifolia : a large and handsome 

 plant, may be regarded as one of the floral glories of our district 

 and county generally. I recollect some years ago, when Mr. 

 Hammond, the present head-gardener at Brayton Hall, came first 

 into Cumberland, he was greatly struck with the appearance of 

 this plant, which he had never previously seen in a wild state. 

 C. persici/olia: though occasionally seen in gardens, has slight 

 claims to be reckoned as a native of our upland valleys. 



Ericace^. In these, as might be expected, our district is rather 

 rich. Vaccinium oxycoccus : is frequently to be found with its 

 pretty red solitary flowers on long trailing stems — locally called 

 "cranberry wire" — interlaced with heaths, sphagnum, and other 

 bog-loving plants. V. vitis idcea : less plentiful than the preceding, 

 loving rather elevated situations, where sufficient moisture prevails, 

 in peaty soil. About Striding Edge, Dove Crags, Fairfield, &c. 

 I have met with occasional specimens on Gowbarrow Fells, and 

 even on Easter Mell Fell. The flowers are a very pretty object, 

 rosy-white, clustered, and having a special gloss about them which 



