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the Valley; and Gercmium sylvaticum, Wood Cranesbill, with 

 lilac- or light-crimson corolla, in upland meadows and hedgerows. 

 Erodium cicntarium, Hemlock Stork's-Bill, appears sparingly about 

 Dalston Green. 



Several unimportant families that stand next in the Catalogue 

 are totally absent, or, at least, sparingly represented. The Common 

 Holly grows freely in the higher part of the Valley ; and in the 

 vicinity of Heggle is a frequent ornament in hedgerow and copse. 



The LeguminifeRjE, or pod-producing plants, sometimes styled 

 the papilionaceous order, from their butterfly-shaped blossoms, 

 number about eighty species in all, exclusive of varieties. These 

 include the Whins, Brooms, Trefoils, and Vetches. The Common 

 or spring-flowering Whin is abundant everywhere ; and the dwarf 

 Vlex gallii is plentiful in the neighbourhood of Durdar, and the 

 lowest skirts of what was once Broadfield Common. Equally well 

 known is the Common Broom, while, here and there, especially in 

 the Haltcliffe district, the dwarf Genista tinctoria, Dyer's Green- 

 Weed, finds a place. In addition to the ordinary species of 

 Trefoil common in Cumberland, Trifolium arvense, the Hare's-Foot 

 Trefoil, usually a seaside plant, flourishes in abundance on Dalston 

 Green. Of the Vetch tribe you may find Vicia hirsuta, the 

 Hairy-Podded Tare, among the loose gravel a little west of Dalston 

 station. The most noteworthy of the family is, however, Vicia 

 sylvatica, the Wood Vetch, really a most elegant plant. I first 

 met with it in a young larch plantation near the abandoned 

 Sebergham colliery, at the outskirts of Denton Side woods. By 

 means of its powerful tendrils it had managed to climb and overtop 

 the larches, and from the summits, some eight or nine feet from 

 the ground, there depended large clusters of drooping flowers, 

 white, tinged with light crimson or blue, which had a most charming 

 effect. 



Another most extensive order now claims attention, viz., the 

 RosACEiE, which, besides the roses proper, includes the Tormentils, 

 Strawberries, Brambles (a most perplexing family), Crabtree or 

 Wild Apple, Pears, Hawthorn, &c. Singling out the most remark- 

 able for passing notice, Primus insititia, the BuUace or Wild Plum, 



