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includes Thistles, Camomiles, Groundsel, Daisies, Cudweeds, 

 Hawkweeds, &c. Cardmis crispus. Nodding Thistle ; a variety of 

 this species, known by some botanists as C. acanthoides, or Welted 

 Thistle, is occasionally found in the hedges of cultivated fields 

 from Sebergham downwards. The Carline Thistle on dry banks 

 at the base of the mountains. The Corn Blue-Bottle, Centaurea 

 cyatius, sometimes occurs in cornfields, where it has been imported 

 probably among the seed corn. The same remark is applicable 

 to the Corn Marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum. The Common 

 Wormwood, Artetnisia absinthium, formerly covered portions of 

 Dalston Green, where I fear it is now all but extinct, from the 

 demands made upon it by cottage "medicine men." At this last 

 mentioned station the least of the local Cudweeds appears in 

 abundance. Of the Groundsel tribe, the largest and least known 

 in Cumberland is Senecio saracenicus, Broad-Leaved Ragwort, a 

 patch of which grows close to the river by the roadside leading 

 from Sebergham to Bell Bridge. Another extremely rare plant, 

 the exact locality of which I cannot venture to divulge, as even 

 now I fear its extermination is imminent, is Erigerott acris. Blue 

 Fleabane. I have heard of its existence near Cummersdale, 

 though I found it growing farther up the stream. Cichorium 

 intybus, Chicory, now and then makes its appearance in fields 

 recently laid down to pasture ; possibly its seeds were mixed with 

 samples of rye-grass or clover. Tragopogon pratensis, Meadow 

 Goats-Beard, though more frequently met with than the three last 

 mentioned species, is yet unusual. 



Of the thirty-six British Hawkweeds, only about six may be 

 fairly set down as indigenous. The Pennines produce far more 

 examples than the Cumberland group of hills. Of the Blue-bells, 

 or Campanulace^, we find four species. The least known to city 

 botanists is probably Campanula glomerata, Clustered Bell-FIower, 

 which has terminal heads of large dark purple flowers ; a native 

 commonly of calcareous soils. Parkhead, scarce. 



Of Heaths and mountain Berry-bearing Shrubs, the following 

 may be found on Carrock, Skiddaw, Bowscale, or Caldbeck fells, 

 viz., the Cranberry, Cowberry, or Red Whortleberry (ripe fruit not 



