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He promised to write to me when he had found the plant again, which 

 he expressed a very sanguine expectation of doing ; but I have not 

 heard from him. Mr. Backhouse observed some differences in the 

 habit and mode of growtli between a Sebergham plant removed to his 

 garden, and another of American origin, as he believed, that he had 

 in cultivation. Mr. Wilson showed me what seems a variety of this 

 species, with broader leaves and larger flowers, quite naturalized, to- 

 gether with an American Aster (by Orford Hall, 1 think it was), near 

 Warrington ; and in a spot adjoining, Onoclea sensibilis was thriving 

 over a considerable space of boggy ground, planted as a nursery with 

 young poplars. He told me that a botanical garden formerly existed 

 there. 



Borago orientalis grows in some quantity in a wood by the road- 

 side at Portiuscale, near Keswick. Mr. Wright says that it grew 

 there before the adjoining house and garden were in existence; and 

 that there is another station of the plant, which I did not visit, about 

 half a mile from this. He had not learned the name of the plant. 



I did not go to look for Meum Athamanlicura, but Miss Wright 

 sent me a recent specimen. 



Having never been in the Vale of Duddon, I, of course, have not 

 seen Euphorbia Cyparissias in Ulpha ; nor have I seen a specimen. 

 To returu once more into Northumberland, I gathered the plant so 

 called from the wall at Hulne Abbey in Alnwick Park, under the kind 

 guidance of Mr. Embleton, in August, 1845. It was quite out of 

 flower, and even the capsules had fallen. I cannot speak positively, 

 but I strongly suspect that it is E. Esula in a starved state, and not 

 the genuine E. Cyparissias. 1 have the plant now in my garden, and 

 hope to decide the question next summer. 



Mr. Embleton took me to the place where Maianthemum bifoliura 

 had been found at Howick. The plant has been completely extir- 

 pated. The spot was close by Earl Grey's garden. 1 have since vi- 

 sited Kenwood (or Caen Wood), not in Northumberland, but Lord 

 Mansfield's seat near Hampstead, where the plant exists in two large 

 patches ; one of them a circular one of seven paces in diameter, in a 

 part of the park which is said to have been never cleared from the ab- 

 original forest. Opinion will vary as to whether it is indigenous or 

 not. It is desirable that the ancient Lancashire stations should be 

 explored. 



Mr. Embleton showed me Ligusticum scoticum among the stones 

 on the shore at Dunstanburgh Castle. 



By the bridge over the Alne, going from Alnwick towards Emble- 



