68 CUMBRIAN BOTANY. [MttVch, 



sandy, and from its contiguity to the sea must frequently be re- 

 plcnislied with saline matter, which may perhaps account for the 

 mitigated form in which the disease here appears. 



On the 13th I again went shorewards, and passing Genista 

 tinctoria and Drosera rotimdifoRa (now both out of flower), I 

 arrived at Hotbarrow, where the above-mentioned outcropping of 

 the limestone suggested the working of a quarry long ago. Here 

 on the shore grew Glaucium luteum, and in an old shaft which has 

 been sunk for iron ore I feasted my eyes on splendid plants of 

 Scolopendriwn vulgare, of richest green. One root bore seven 

 fronds, of which four were forked at the apex ; but I presume 

 that neither this indis'idual plant, nor an individual forked frond 

 of the same, is entitled to the rank of a variety. Here also Ge- 

 ranium saiiguineum grew in abundanee, and facing the shore 

 Agrimonia Eupatoria, Rosa spinosisshna ?, and Hypericum per- 

 foratum ? Though I am almost, still I am not quite, certain as 

 to the names of some of these plants, hence the notes of interro- 

 gation. 



On the 17 th I searched a streamlet above Beck Farm, and was 

 rewarded by finding Hypericum Androscemum, and fine plants of 

 that beautiful fern, Polystichum angulare. Iris Pseudacorus is 

 plentiful here and everywhere. Then skirting the hillside in the 

 direction of the village I passed Sedum Telephium on the rocks, 

 and in a marshy field below grew Drosera rotundifolia and Nar- 

 thecium ossifragum, to me common plants. In the brickfield near 

 the station grows Alopecurus geniculatus. Stellaria graminea 

 and Trifolium filiforme are both rather common in the lanes, and 

 on the sands Aster Tripolium is abundant. 



During my stay here I read Dr. Windsor's interesting paper 

 (in, I think, the September number of the ' Phytologist ') and was 

 fired with the zeal to become his humble gleaner. I purposed 

 starting one morning by rail to search Humphrey Head, and es- 

 pecially the wood the Doctor mentioned, but circumstances pre- 

 vented me. There is one interesting plant at Humphrey Head, 

 which I found some years ago, and although the Doctor does not 

 mention it I cannot think that it has been extirpated ; I mean 

 Atropa Belladonna, which grows near the Spa. 



Should any reader of this journal think it worth while to visit 

 this neighbourhood for any of the objects touched upon he will 

 have also an excellent starting-place for the Lakes. A walk up 



