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saw several plants of Hippuris vulgaris, and in another a large 

 patch or two of Anagallis tenella. On the hedge-banks we not 

 unfrequently met with Lysimachia vulgaris, Geranium lucidum, 

 and Scolopendrium vulgare ; the last being in its normal form 

 and two or three of its varieties. 



. On the banks in the village of Allithwaite we saw Verbena 

 officinalis, Malva sylvestris, moschata, and rotundifolia. Cam- 

 panula latifolia made its appearance in one place near Cartmel, 

 and Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus flourished by the side of the 

 churchyard wall in that town. Our botanical researches finished 

 here, and as we were within a few yards of our hostelry, Ave very 

 shortly sat down to dinner; and, as it may be imagined, did 

 full justice to the good things which were set before us. After 

 dinner we sallied forth to inspect the fine old conventual church 

 of Cartmel ; but a description of this, however agreeable it might 

 be to the individual tastes of many of the readers of the ' Phyto- 

 logist,^ would be out of place in the pages of that work. Suffice 

 it to say that we returned to Preston in the evening, thoroughly 

 pleased with our jaunt, and only puzzled to decide whether our 

 botanical, or antiquarian and architectural tastes had received 

 the most gratification. One word should be said for the scenery, 

 which possessed all the charms that mountain and valley, wood 

 and water could bestow upon it. 



VISIT TO HUMPHREY HEAD, ETC. 

 By John Windsor, M.D., P.L.S. 



Leaving Manchester by rail on the afternoon of June 20, 1861, 

 on a short visit to some relatives in the neighbourhood of 

 Morecambe Bay, I reached Flarkburgh, in Cartmel, the same 

 evening. 



On the following morning, accompanied by two of the other 

 sex, both near relations, I started for Humphrey Head, aided, 

 for the first time on my visits there, by a vehicle, which con- 

 veyed us quite to the spot, thus saving much time as well as 

 fatigue, and enabling us to leave the Cark station lor Ulver- " 

 stone about half past eleven a.m. 



The fruits of my explorations, however, on this occasion. 



