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Ham Hooker, to whom I sent plants in 1848, says, in the * Botanical 

 Magazine ' for March, 1850, that it ' has braved unharmed, and un- 

 protected by any sort of covering, the severe winters now passed 

 (1849 — 50.') We may therefore hope to see this fine palm growing on 

 our hill-sides as it does in Northern China, particularly in the milder 

 parts of England, Ireland, and about Edinburgh." 



2. ' On Plants found in Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, 

 in April, 1853 ;' by Mr. James B. Davies. Mr. Davies remarked : — 

 " The past spring has been a remarkably dry one ; but on the 28th, 

 29th, and 30th of April there was a plentiful supply of rain in York- 

 shire. The long period of drought had a remarkable effect in retard- 

 ing vegetation, not so much, certainly, in the neighbourhood of the 

 lakes, where the air is moist, as in the mining districts of Westmore- 

 land, where the ground is more heathy. For ten weeks prior to the 

 28th of April not half an inch of rain had fallen. I left Ripon on the 

 1st of April, for Harrowgate, and on the common found Luzula pilosa 

 in good condition, with roses. Pelargoniums, and Cinerarias, in the 

 gardens. I spent five days at Poole, where I found the apple, pear, 

 and cherry in flower, with daffodils, gooseberries, currants. Anemones, 

 Saxifrages, and the red variety of Pulmonaria officinalis, in the gar- 

 dens. On a hill at llkley I saw an abundance of Lycopodium clava- 

 tum and Bryum ligulatum in fine fruit. On Good Friday I found, in 

 the grounds around the Abbey of Bolton, and between that and Bar- 

 den Tower, the wild strawberry, marsh marigold, Cochlearia, Oxalis 

 acetosella, Chrysosplenium alternifolium, Jungermanuia epiphylla, 

 and Marchantia conica ; and Lathraea squamaria at Pooley Bridge. 

 At Kettlewell, Saxifraga tridactylites was abundant on the scars. On 

 the 14th of April, Sesleria caerulea was noticed at Kirby Stephen, in 

 Westmoreland, with Prunus spinosa abundantly in flower. The leaves 

 appeared on the 27th. At Temple Laverby on the 16th and 17th a 

 few new plants were noticed — Ranunculus auricomus, Alchemilla vul- 

 garis, Myosotis sylvatica, Luzula sylvatica, Plantago lanceolata, two 

 flowers of Lychnis dioica, Poa annua, Linaria Cymbalaria. On a hill 

 near Pooley Bridge I found Primula farinosa, not in flower ; and in a 

 dried drain Ranunculus hederaceus, with flowers not half the diameter 

 of the ordinary form, probably the result of drought. On the way 

 from Pooley to Keswick, I found, on the 21st of April, Lotus cornicu- 

 latus, Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, Stellaria Holostea, and Orobus 

 tuberosus, all in flower ; large patches of Allosorus crispus in the cre- 

 vices of the walls. Friar's Crag is a little rocky promontory, which 

 juts out into the north-east side of the lake. Here the broom and 

 blaeberry were in fine flower, as well as woodroof, Anthoxanthum, 



