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Aguilegia (Columbine) is occasionally found in woods by the 

 side of the river Brock, between its source and the railway station. 

 It is much to be desired that the learned author would give us a 

 map of the country with the stations where his plants grow pro- 

 minently marked. It would be very gratifying to us to tell our 

 readers where this wood is, but we hope they will get a better in- 

 formed guide to this locality than the writer of this notice. The 

 other rare plants of Ranunculacecs and its kindred Orders, are 

 Ranunculus Lingua, between Blackpool and Kirkham ; and one of 

 the two British Hellebores, H. viridis, " a thicket by the side of 

 a foot-path leading from the wood, Plumpton road to Cottam 

 Hall." Trollius europceus is not a rare plant in the Craven dis- 

 trict, and in this Flora it is localized " near the Liverpool Water- 

 works, in Heath Charnock ;" also " at Plymouth bridge, near 

 Chorley.'^ Corydalis lutea is found both as a weed in gardens 

 and on old walls. We have seen it cultivated in cottage gardens, 

 and sometimes spreading through the hedge or paling fence, but 

 it is more partial to walls. 



Asarum and Aristolochia, both renowned and very scarce plants, 

 are found in this district, the former at Barton the latter at 

 Warton, on the right side of the road to Lytham. 



Geranium pheeum is also one of the Preston plants, and here, as 

 in most if not in all other parts of England, a doubtful native. 

 It is reported as found in a meadow and in an orchard, localities 

 that will not pass muster among some botanists. To G. pratense, 

 G. sanguineum, and G. lucidum there is no objection. As G. 

 sylvaticum abounds in pasture-fields in Craven, it may turn up 

 not far from Preston : probably much nearer than Pendle Hill, 

 where Primula farinosa is said to grow, and where Pinguicula 

 vulgaris certainly grows. As the former is found on the Lanca- 

 shire side of the Ribble, somewhat further north than Skipton, it 

 may be expected on the Pendle Hills, which are much higher than 

 any of the hills near Settle, about which Primula farinosa grows 

 abundantly. 



Utricularia vulgaris and U. minor occur here, the former at 

 M artinmere and the latter on Leyland Moss. Hottonia palustris 

 is found with the former, and the queen of British aquatics, 

 Nymphaa alba ; also Hippuris vulgaris and other more common 

 aquatic plants. 



If we were asked by a farrier, or perhaps we should write 



