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Bridge to Sebergham Hall, by Mr. W. Duckworth. Wild Thyme 

 and Basil appear on dry uplands; while Ground Ivy, Wood Betony, 

 and Bugle, belong rather to woodlands and sheltered hedge-banks ; 

 a remark that is applicable also to Wood-Sage. Several species of 

 Myosoiis, Forget-me-not, are not unusual; some in running water, 

 while others prefer dry banks. Comfrey, never perhaps truly wild, 

 finds a place about the boundaries of old gardens and orchards. 

 The common Hound's Tongue used to grow not far from 

 Hawksdale Bridge. The common Butterwort and Primula 

 farinosa, the Mealy Cowslip — both lovers of moisture — are found 

 by mountain springs. The latter is the Bonnie Bird Een, of the 

 dalesman. Lysirnachia nummularia, Money Wort, the Creeping 

 Jenny of London flower girls, is found at the foot of the Scar, 

 Gatesgill ; Z. nemorum, Wood Loose-Strife, in Flatbank orchard ; 

 and Z. ciliata, an excluded species, by the roadside near Monkhouse 

 Hill, Sebergham. Three species of Plantain frequently occur. 

 The Goosefoot family include several well-known garden weeds, as 

 well as Chenopodium bonus-henricus. Good King Harry, or Mercury 

 Goosefoot, formerly in use as a culinary vegetable, though now 

 superseded by Spinach, which belongs to the same natural order. 

 Of the Rumex or Dock family, in addition to the Round-Leafed and 

 Curled Docks, the plague of farmers, the Bloody- Veined Dock is 

 not unfrequent about Gatesgill. Polygonum bistorta, Snake-weed, 

 Eastermer Giants, grows in a wild state in meadows about Haltcliffe 

 Bridge. Many species of the Spurge family are shore plants, atfd, 

 therefore, wanting in the valley; where only two seem truly 

 indigenous, the Sun Spurge, and the Petty Spurge. They are all 

 remarkable for the yellow acrid juice contained in the leaves and 

 stems, supposed to be efficacious in removing warts from the hands. 

 In ground under tillage, and abounding most among green crops, 

 the Stinging Nettles, both annual and perennial, are familiar every- 

 where. 



Amentiferous, or Catkin-Bearing plants, are tolerably numerous. 

 The Oak, Alder, Beech, Hazel, Poplars, and Willows, all belong 

 to this order. Of the first I have already spoken. The Willows 

 share with the Brambles, Hawkweeds, &c., an xmenviable noto- 



