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to illustrate the history of numerous foreign plants, now entirely na- 

 turalized in our island, and which deserve as good a place in the 

 British Flora as some others, such as Saxifraga umbrosa, which the 

 Rev. W. T. Bree I think, has clearly shown to be of exotic origin 

 (Annals Nat. History). A correspondent to Grove's 'Naturalist's 

 Journal,' published in 1832, mentions Mimulus luteus as being "na- 

 turalized in various places throughout the country," without speci- 

 fying the stations ; this is the more to be regretted, as a complete list 

 of the stations where found growing would be extremely interesting, 

 with the dates when first found recorded. 



William Jackson, Jun. 



46, Scouring burn, Dundee. 



Note of a few plants growing on Helvellyn or in its vicinity. 

 By James Backhouse, Jun. 



During a short tour among the lakes and mountains of Cumber- 

 land and Westmoreland, in the 7th month of last year, I left the inn 

 at Patterdale with two companions and a guide, on a gloomy after- 

 noon, to ascend Helvellyn. We took the course up Grisedale, and 

 after a long, yet easy ascent, reached the foot of the " Striding Edge." 

 Here the wind was so strong that we hesitated a little before deter- 

 mining to take this exposed and narrow ridge for our course, instead 

 of the easier way of passing over the foot of Catchedicam and along 

 the " Swirrel Edge." Yet as we learned from the guide that the for- 

 mer ridge was the best locality on the mountain for plants, we con- 

 cluded to try it. We therefore ascended to the first point, which is 

 the highest part of it. Here, under the shelter of the craggy rocks, 

 we rested awhile, and enjoyed the fine prospect beneath and around. 

 Many hundred feet below us, on one side was the beautiful valley of 

 Grisedale, watered by a mountain stream, and backed by the tower- 

 ing rocks of St. Sunday, Crag and Fairfield. 



On the other side, in a dark hollow far beneath our feet, lay the 

 Red Tarn, hemmed in by the precipices of the Swirrell Edge and the 

 sharply-peaked Catchedicam, behind which Skiddaw reared his head 

 in the distance. This Tarn is more than 2400 feet above the level of 

 the sea ; its surface was agitated by the violence of the wind, which 

 roared among the bleak and barren rocks over which we had to pass 



