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at Fleetwood, for example, at Embleton, Northumberland, and at 

 Hartley Pans, are richly adorned with this beautiful species. Mr. 

 Storey, of Newcastle, gave me a white-flowered specimen from the 

 last-named place. The same gentleman showed me there the only 

 known station of Anchusa officinalis, a spot of fifty paces by fifteen, 

 and near the same place, Ruppia rostellata; as well as Eryngium 

 campestre still abounding at Gateshead, although much of the ground 

 it formerly occupied is now built over. I did not visit the station of 

 this plant near South Shields. 



I did not go to Workington to look for Geranium striatum ; neither 

 my experience elsewhere, nor Mr. Woods' statement in the ' Compa- 

 nion to the Botanical Magazine,' aflfording much encouragement. I 

 have seen aspecimen of this Geranium, gathered by the Rev. Mr. Bil- 

 lingsley, in a foot-path through a wood above the Wye, near English 

 Bicknor. He saw but one plant. I have visited the place and hunted 

 in vain. This species has established itself in the avenue to Horneck 

 Castle, near Penzance, and in a neighbouring lane. It was shown to 

 me there by the Rev. H. Penneck. 



Miss Wright showed me Hieracium aurantiacum in a meadow in 

 the Vale of Newlands. It was too near to a garden, and Aconitum 

 Lycoctouum was growing close by, also on the outside of the garden- 

 fence. The Hieracium " grew formerly in another meadow, farther 

 from the house, which is now a corn-field " {Miss W.), and " on one 

 of the islands of Derwent Water, before it was converted into its pre- 

 sent state," that of a pleasure-ground, {Mr. W.) 



Lysimachia ciliata I found, by a direction kindly sent me by the 

 late Mr. W. Backhouse, immediately before his death, in the place 

 where he discovered it, between Penrith and Wigton. It is by the 

 road- side, near Sebergham. The plant forms one large patch. Mr. 

 Wright had " found it in 1832," in a slate-quarry in Warnell Fells, 

 about a mile from Mr. Backhouse's place. The "one specimen which 

 he gathered, and preserved a long while in his pocket-book," was 

 unfortunately lost. " The Andromeda was growing near it." I vi- 

 sited the quarry, with Mr. Wright, but it had been extended on the 

 side " where he had seen the plant," which was consequently no 

 longer there. There never could have been a bog for the Andromeda. 

 Mr. W. introduced me to an inhabitant, of respectable appearance, 

 who was " beyond convinced " that he had seen the Lysimachia in a 

 large wood by the river Caldew, at some distance from Sebergham, 

 in more places than one. He accompanied me into the wood, but his 

 recollection of the spots was not sufficient to find any one of them. 



