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Woods is inclined to agree with me in referring to R. hibernica, al- 

 though its leaves are smooth. 



Rumex alpinus grows by the road-side about a mile from Mun- 

 grisedale towards Greystoke Park, accompanied by Imperatoria Os- 

 truthium, in an adjoining meadow. A cottage is near at hand. Mr. 

 Wright mentioned another place where " he had seen the Rumex in 

 large quantity," about the vestiges of a Roman camp. The Impera- 

 toria has a more wild appearance by Thirlemere, and by the stream 

 that issues from it, near the head of the Vale of St. John, than I ha^ve 

 seen it present elsewhere, either in England or in Scotland. 



I had a walk of some hours in vain search for Staphylea pinnata, 

 about Finsthwaite, near Newby Bridge, (misprinted Kensthwaite, in 

 Bab. Man. Bot.). 



Senecio sarracenicus still grows by the river at Newby Bridge, 

 where Mr. Woods observed it; also near Hutton Hall (by a stream ?) 

 separated by a hedge-row from the Penrith road. 



Alcheniilla alpina is common in many of the mountains. Large 

 specimens occur in Gatesgarth Pass, and larger in Wastdale Screes ; 

 but, excepting in size, I saw no approach to A. conjuncta. 



Hieracium inuloides is not uncommon in the lake-district, growing 

 mostly on the borders of the lakes or by streams in the valleys I 

 found it however occasionally about mountain rills, — T recollect par- 

 ticularly near Hayes Water ; and in one place, near Fox How, in a 

 dry wood. H. sabaudum occurs perhaps as commonly as H. boreale 

 in these parts. These two grow together by the Tees about Barnard 

 Castle, and look different. H. prenanthoides 1 have seen nowhere in 

 South Britain but by the river Allen, near Ridley Hall, Northumber- 

 land, where it was shown me by Mr. John Thompson, the discoverer 

 of Carex irrigua. He showed me this Carex and C. pauciflora grow- 

 ing in profusion on the Muckle Moss, and beginning to flower. May 

 31, 1844 ; also, near the same place, Crepis succisaefolia, which I 

 have since seen at Whelpington, Northumberland ; about the High 

 Force, in Teesdale ; and in Heseldine Gill, Yorkshire, near the sta- 

 tion of Saxifraga umbrosa. 



Charles Wright, of Keswick, is an excellent guide, intelligent, in- 

 defatigably active and intimately acquainted with the mountains: 

 but with regard to the stations of rare plants discovered by him I was 

 particularly unfortunate, although I took care to engage him to guide 

 me to all of them in which I felt an interest, except Pyrola uniflora 

 and Allium Schcenoprasum. The Pyrola "he had found" at Bardsea, 

 near Ulverstone, and he gave me a very particular direction to the 



