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where are some small pools almost filled up, one or other of which is 

 the Daleheatl Tarn of some of the maps, and whence the waters fall 

 into Cumberland, North, and into Westmoreland, South. I ascended 

 to this place both from Wythburn and from Grasmere, and sought for 

 " H. Auricula " as assiduously as my time in the two walks admitted. 

 I left ample space, however, uninvestigated, and great choice of gills 

 and dry rocks, grassy turf and bog, in which the plant may yet be 

 found again. I had the good fortune to meet with a few plants of H. 

 alpinum at Langdale Pikes. They were in leaf only ; but I cannot 

 doubt the species, although, at the time, I hoped T had got " H. Au- 

 ricula." 1 have no idea that the Dale-head mountain above New- 

 lands can be Hudson's place ; although Wright told me that a speci- 

 men labelled as one or the other of Hudson's Hieracia, from Dale 

 Head, " near Keswick^'' from the late Bishop Goodenough's collec- 

 tion, exists in the museum of some institution at Carlisle. I walked 

 from the Gatesgarth Pass, over that mountain and the neighbouring 

 Hindscorth, into the Vale of Newlands, but found nothing of much 

 interest. 



There are some interesting brambles among the lakes; but I will 

 say nothing more about them than that the form which abounds in the 

 Rydal Woods, not exactly to the exclusion of all its congeners, is not 

 the Rubus Bellardi ( Weihe), as Turner's specimen in the Smithian 

 herbarium hasd led me to suspect. 



I believe I brought home two of the grasses recently distinguished 

 by Parnell : Poa subcompressa, from a bridge-wall at Greta Bridge ; 

 and Poa polynoda, from rocks at the Colwith Force, Langdale, near 

 Ambleside. 



In mosses I was as fortunate as one so slightly acquainted with the 

 tribe could expect to be. I will mention a few of the best that I met 

 with. 



CEdipodiimi Griffithianum. On the higher mountains, Bowfell, Fair- 

 field, High Raise, &c., on soil in crevices of the rocks, not rare. 

 Zygodon Mougeotii, B. & S. In dry chasms of rocks in many places: 



barren. 

 Grimmia torta and spiralis. Rocks due west of the house at the head 

 of Kirkstone Pass ; Wallow Crag, by Keswick ; Dove Crag, in 

 Fairfield : barren. 

 Orthotrichum rupincola. Stone walls near Mardale Green, Hawes 



water. 

 Doniana. Stone walls, everywhere among the moun- 

 tains. 



