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the garden below The Station, but no one can doubt its having been 

 planted there. I observed one patch among stones by the lake, a lit- 

 tle way out of the gardens, by the road towards Ambleside ; but not 

 a plant of it could I find in a drive to and from Newby Bridge. Se- 

 dum rupestre, possibly wild, grows above the edge of the lake not far 

 northward from the Ferry. Carex stricta {Good.) grows behind the 

 Ferry Inn. 



The wall-tops about the towns and hamlets of this district are very 

 commonly covered with various plants, chiefly Saxifrages and Sedums, 

 Sax. Geura and umbrosa occasionally among them ; but neither of 

 these have I seen in any place where I could regard it as indigenous, 

 except the latter in its recorded station, Heselden Gill, Yorkshire. 



I saw Pyrola secunda in two of Wright's places. Wallow Crag by 

 Keswick, and Fisher-place Gill, above Thrispot ; and he brought it to 

 me down from some rocks in the Vale of St. John. 



Of Geranium nodosum Miss Wright had no specimen to show. I 

 sent her a garden one, , in 1844, that she might know the plant. Her 

 father " had known two patches of this species by Thirlemere (or 

 licatheswater), one of which had been removed to the garden at Dale 

 Head," a house hard by the lake. Of the other he knew not the fate, 

 but it also had disappeared. He showed me "where they formerly 

 grew." It was on the stony bushy margin of the lake, not on any 

 land now cultivated. The plant in the garden, " brought from the 

 lake-side," proved to be G. angulatum of Curtis (Bot. Mag. t. 203) ; a 

 plant of which the native country is still, I believe, unknown, and 

 which so nearly approaches G. sylvaticum, that it might almost be 

 supposed a large smooth variety of that species. Some other not 

 very common garden flowers were there : but Wright " was certain " 

 that the Geranium was the very root that had grown by the lake. G. 

 sylvaticum is so abundant through the lake district as to be, in early 

 summer, the great ornament of the meadows and thickets. Its flow- 

 ers are extremely variable in size, being sometimes scarcely so large 

 as those of G. pyrenaicum, and sometimes almost rivalling those of 

 G. pratense. They vary much, too, in their bluer or redder tinge ; 

 and on one plant, between Rydal and Fox How, I found them of a 

 pale pinkish hue, like those of G. angulatum. 



I found G. lancastriense among the sand-hills towards the north 

 end of Walney island, in moderate plenty, in immense beds of G. san- 

 guineura, of which it is a mere variety, differing only in the pale flow- 

 ers. It is not, in its native place, at all more prostrate than the red- 

 flowered plants, which vary much, both in intensity of colour and in 

 size of the flower. The sandy shores in various places in the north, 



