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rows. S. amita : frequent, though hardly so ubiquitous as the 

 preceding. In a meadow near Sparket Mill. S. caprea : in dry 

 woods and hedges. Usually the first of the family to put forth 

 male catkins. S. nigricans : appears mostly in hedgerows, or by 

 the edges of a rivulet. Widely distributed, but nowhere abounding 

 in the district. Of this species as many as ten varieties are 

 reckoned. S. repens : a dwarf species, prostrate in habit, seldom 

 more than a few inches in height ; an occupant generally of moist 

 heaths and commons, with small oblong or lanceolate leaves. In 

 many of our elevated boggy meadows plentiful. Eight varieties 

 are reckoned. S. herbacea : I give this rare willow a place here 

 for the following reason. Many years ago, when acting as guide 

 to a party bound for High Street, we stumbled upon a patch of 

 ground covered with these little willows, somewhere in the vicinity 

 of Kidsty Pike, where I have vainly sought for it during the 

 last two or three seasons. I yet trust to find it on some of the 

 High Street group of hills. 



Conifers. Pinus sylvestris, needs no comment here. Juniperus 

 eommunis: On Birk Fell; St. Sunday Crag; near Greenside 

 Mines. Abundant. Taxas baccata: must be familiar to all. 

 From the frequency with which seedling yews are met with on the 

 hills that embosom the Lake, it would appear that the tree is 

 thoroughly indigenous there, and was at one period probably more 

 plentiful than it is now. A fine example may be seen in Patterdale 

 churchyard ; another at Old Church, where the place of worship 

 of Watermillock people stood in the time of the Plantagenets, or 

 until it was dismantled by the Scots towards the close of the 14th 

 century. 



TvPHACEiE. Two species of Sparganium^ Bur-reed, may be 

 seen growing side by side m a slow-running ditch in a meadow 

 between Howtown and the Lake; these are S. ramosum and 

 5. simplex ; and though I have not seen the smaller S. minimum 

 anywhere growing, it may probably exist in Bannerdale Bottoms, 

 or in the boggy meadows round the head of Brothers Water. 



Arace^. Arum^ maculatxim ; conspicuous in hedgerows and 



