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Of species belonging to the order Crassulace/E, our list is not 

 very long. The largest genus, represented by the Sedmns, consists 

 of plants that belong mostly to alpine districts. The Houseleek 

 is common on many cottage roofs in the district. Near Green 

 Lane, the rare and curious plant called in old herbals. Navel or 

 Kidney Wort, is found ; better known now, perhaps, by the name 

 of Wall Penny-Wort. 



The next order, Saxifragace^, being chiefly alpine plants, I 

 must pass over, except in the genus Chrysosplenium, and we have 

 the Opposite-Leaved Golden Saxifrage, and the Alternate-Leaved 

 almost equally common by the sides of our streams and rivers ; the 

 nearest place I can think of being the Scar below St. Ann's. 



The pretty little Moschatel, " without glory," as the scientific 

 name gives it, is called by children the Town Clock, may be found 

 in the Stainton Lanes, and is a curious little plant, the flower stem 

 having at its apex four flowers set in a square with one at the top. 



Of the order XjMBELLiFERiE, the White Rot or Marsh Penny- 

 Wort grows on Kingmoor ; and if you want to find the flower, you 

 must look very carefully indeed. This plant shares with some 

 other marsh plants the name of Sheep Rot, from the supposed 

 action it has on the bones of animals which feed upon it. Hemlock, 

 which is easily known by its purple-spotted stem, grows about 

 Stainton, Cummersdale, etc. Before the alterations were made in 

 the shrubbery in Court Square, several fine plants might have been 

 seen there ; and I have no doubt it will turn up again some day. 

 The Procumbent Marsh Wort in Pow Beck, near the Spa Well; 

 Goat, Gout, or Bishop Weed, Herb Gerarde, everywhere, well 

 known to all our gardeners as a most noxious weed. This plant 

 was brought to England by the famous old herbalist whose name 

 it bears, presumably, I suppose, for its medicinal virtues. But like 

 sparrows in America, or rabbits in Australia, it has outlived those 

 properties for which it was first introduced, and it remains now but 

 as a troublesome pest. The English- or Whorled-Carraway, found 

 growing on Kingmoor, is a plant which I believe I have the honor 

 of first making known as indigenous to Cumberland. I communi- 

 cated with Mr. Hodgson on the subject, as he has the most 



