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spot ; the Allium at Dalton in Furness, where there is also other au- 

 thority for its occurrence. I found neither of them. Of Epimedium 

 alpiuum I have already spoken in the ' Phytologist,' (Phytol. ii. 2), as 

 well as of Saxifraga rotundifolia, found by Miss Wright ; and the Rev. 

 W. T. Bree has communicated additional information respecting the 

 latter (Id. 65). 



Mr, Wright "had seen" Asarura europceum at Troutbeck, "in a spot 

 which he knew well ; " a Saxifraga different from S. hypnoides, and 

 which he supposed to be S. ca3spitosa of Hudson, or, at least, S. mos- 

 chata of Withering, in Kirkstone Pass ; another Saxifraga, allied to 

 S. Aizoon, wild on rocks at Crosthwaite, Westmoreland, for which he 

 showed me, as the same species, S. Cotyledon, planted on a wall by 

 Troutbeck Bridge. We visited each of these places in vain. Saxi- 

 fraga Geum has been reported to be an English plant on the sole 

 authority of Mr. Wright, who " has discovered it at the head of the 

 Duddon in Bowfell," and he gave me a specimen " gathered there by 

 himself." He conducted me, however, over the lofty pass of Oar 

 (pronounced Ewar) Gap, in Bowfell, to some gills of Esk, not Dud- 

 don, in a deep valley below, 



" A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high 

 Among the mountains," 



as the places in one or other of which he had found the plant, ac- 

 knowledging that, having never been there before but in thick cloud, 

 he had erroneously supposed the waters to fall thence into Devon, the 

 head of which, the source of the Cockley Beck, we found in a bog on 

 the other side of a low green ridge ; betw^een the mountains Crinkle- 

 crags and Hard Knot, I believe. I found the walk from Seathwaite 

 in Borrodale to this ridge and back a laborious one, in a bright hot 

 day ; the more so perhaps as I returned without the Saxifraga : but 

 the mountain-views were glorious. " The colour and the form " of 

 Great Gable, as seen at sunset that June evening, in coming from the 

 Esk-hause, between Great End and Glaramara, are scarcely to be 

 forgotten. 



I have not been in the vale of Duddon ; but, in a walk from Conis- 

 ton Water-head, by the way of the Old Man to Fell Foot in Langdale, 

 I visited several of the feeders of that river, and their sources, some 

 in the Coniston Fells, above Seathwaite Tarn, and some on either side 

 of the Wrynose Pass, without finding any plant of much interest. 



Mr. Wright told me I should find Saxifraga Geum wuld at " The 

 Station," on the west side of Windermere, and all along the road from 

 The Station to Newby Bridge. It completely covers some rocks in 

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