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Agrimony is met with in the Stainton Lanes. Both the Bumets, 

 the Greater Burnet and the Lesser, on Stainton Banks. The 

 Ladies' Mantle, a favorite ingredient in " yarb puddings," in all 

 our meadows. It obtained its name of Ladies' Mantle from a use 

 which I think at present it is not put to. The Parsley Piert is 

 common in the cornfields round Kingmoor. This is a plant I had 

 looked for for many years, without being able to find it ; at last it 

 turned up as a weed in my own garden. Thinking there must be 

 more of it near at hand, I had another search, and found it under 

 the circumstances I have mentioned. Apropos of this plant, my 

 brother and I came across a celebrated "yarb" doctor gathering 

 one of the smaller geraniums. On our asking him what he was 

 gathering, he replied "parsley peert," or "breakstone;" and it was 

 in vain that we tried to persuade him that it was not Parsley Piert, 

 but Dove's-foot Cranesbill he was getting. He knew better, he 

 had prescribed it many a time with great success. Well, we had 

 to give in then, and to thank a merciful Providence that we had so 

 few poisonous plants in our British List, or some serious mistakes 

 would be made sometimes. The Great Hairy Willowherb grows 

 very fine on the Scar ; the Small-Flowered species is common by 

 our roadsides. I once met with the Evening Primrose near King- 

 moor, and I have also seen it growing on the Scar below St. Ann's; 

 but in both cases I must put it down as a garden escape. The 

 Enchanter's Nightshade, on Davidson's Banks. The very hand- 

 some flowers of the Purple Loosestrife, by the side of Kingmoor, 

 the Black Dub, Holme Head, etc. This is one of the heterostyled 

 plants which Darwin (see his "Forms of Flowers,") experimented 

 upon to prove the value of cross-fertilisation. Among his concluding 

 remarks are the following: "We may be sure that plants have 

 been rendered heterostyled to ensure cross fertilisation, for we 

 now know that a cross between the distinct individuals of the 

 same species is highly important for the vigour and fertility of the 

 offspring." Of the many flowers of the Purple Loosestrife I have 

 examined, I find the different styles are pretty near equal. 



Of the two Knawells, the annual one is found near Cummers- 

 dale. 



