222 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [July, 



ralias near Haverigg. I could show Mr. Green a flourishing plant of 

 E. amygdaloides, l)ut it is not a native of the northern counties, and may 

 therefore be less interesting to him. Typha (apparently) latifolia, less 

 robust than I expected, was brought to me a few yeajjg ago, and said to 

 have been gathered in the Chapel Sucken ditches (pools, or poo's, pro- 

 vincially), and most probably may still be found there. 



On referring to Mr. Green's route in the November number, 1859, I 

 find he examined the line of road between Seascale and Drigg, but has 

 not recorded the Lycopus europ<eiis which grows along the sides of that 

 road, as well as in a few other Cumbrian localities. 



At the edges of the copses between Thwaites Schools and the river 

 Duddon I have observed the Helleborus viridis, in scattered patches. 

 Lithospermum maritimum grows here and there along the shore, but not 

 abundantly, for some distance ; and on the muddy margin of the estuary 

 of the Esk the Artemisia gallica flourishes. 



A few years ago I noticed the Inula dysenterica growing in a hollow 

 near the southern end of St. Bee's heads ; but I fear the encroachments 

 of the sea at that point have swept away the whole of the roots, as well as 

 an acre or two of very valuable land where it gi-ew. 



Other Cumbrian plants and their locaHties I have mentioned in Mar- 

 tineau's ' Guide to the Lakes,' edition 1861. 



Workington, March 18, 1861. W. DICKINSON. 



\E. Paralias is in ' Cybele ' placed among those species which are sup- 

 posed to belong rather to the west than to the east of England. One 

 of the proofs of its belonging to the assumed Atlantic type, is rather a 

 hobbling supporter of this assumption, viz., Coast of Suffolk (Rev. W. 

 Notcutt ! !).— ' Cybele,' vol. ii. p. 362. 



Its European range is not limited to the western shores of our quarter 

 of the world, for it extends to Greece and Turkey ; as it grows on the 

 east of England, though not so commonly as on the west. So it grows 

 on the maritime parts of our continent, from the Atlantic to the Adriatic] 



Feetilization OF British Orchids by Insect Agency. 



{From the Gardeners' Chronicle, Jan. 26, 1861.) 



Referring to your number for June 9, 1860, p. 528, Mr. Darwin asks 

 for information on this point fi-om persons residing in an Orchis district. 

 It is not as a person answering that description that I venture to reply to 

 his inquiries, because, with the exception of 0. Mario, rarely 0. mdscula, 

 and most rarely 0. viridis, and Listera ovata, we have none of the British 

 Orchids growing near Ely. In the spring of 1860, I met by accident a 

 poor feUow in a street near Hungerford Market, who, for the important 

 sum of sixpence, sold me fifteen roots of the Ely Orchis {Ophrys muscifera), 

 which he had collected near Guildford, Surrey. I planted them in my 

 garden, where they all flowered vigorously, bearing from seven to twelve 

 flowers each. Not one of the seed-vessels swelled, and long after the 

 flowers had withered, I narrowly inspected every one of them, and found 

 the poUen-masses still in their pouches, waxy and moist, where one would 

 have expected to fiud them shrivelled, like the flowers. I bought at the 



