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WILD FLOWERS AROUND CARLISLE. Part I. 

 By W . DUCKWORTH. 



(Read at Carlisle. ) 



Commencing with the Buttercup or Crowfoot Order, Ranuncu- 

 LACE/E, (and here I may observe that I am following in this paper 

 the classification of orders as set down in Hayward's " Botanist's 

 Pocket Book,") we find the Wood Anemone, or Flower of the Wind, 

 Anemone nemorosa, common in our damp woods and many of 

 our meadows, noticeably near Carleton. A much rarer species, 

 and one which has not been included in any of the lists published 

 in the Transactions, is the Meadow Rue, Thalidrum fiavum, 

 which grows near to the Fish-house on Stainton Banks. Of the 

 Buttercups or Crowfoots proper, we have no less than ten species, 

 the particular ones being the Celery-Leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus 

 scderatus, a water- or ditch-loving plant, with very inconspicuous 

 flowers, found near the Caledonian Railway Sheds, and on the road 

 side opposite Kingmoor House; the Lesser Spearvvort, R.flammula, 

 on Kingmoor; the Pale Hairy Crowfoot, R. hirsutus, on the 

 Rockcliff road ; Goldilocks, R. auricomus, AVetheral and Cummers- 

 dale ; Monk's Hood, Aconitum napellus, a common garden plant, 

 and a very poisonous one, in Blackball wood. The Marsh 

 Marigold, Caltha palustris, Shakespeare's "Cuckoo Buds of Yellow 

 hue," common in damp meadows and sides of water-courses. The 

 very handsome Globe Flower, Trollius europaus, by the side of 

 the Eden between Wetheral and Warwick, and also at Cummers- 

 dale. 



