[June, 1862.] 

 NOTES ON A FEW NOKTH LANCASHIRE PLANTS. 



By C. J. ASHFIELD. 



Anemone Pulsatilla. — I never lieard of this beautiful plant 

 having been found in the county of Lancaster previously to read- 

 ing the article published in the Jauuary number of the ' Phyto- 

 logist' for the present year, entitled " Catalogue of Plants Culti- 

 vated by CoUinson." I have recently written letters making 

 certain inquiries about the plant, which have been published in 

 the ' Lancaster Guardian' and ' Preston Chronicle' newspapers, 

 but have received no replies thereto. I cannot even ascertain 

 the whereabouts of the " Little Purton" referred to. I have 

 consulted maps of the county of various dates, from the latter 

 part of the last century to the time of, and including the Ord- 

 nance map, and find no such place named in any of them. I 

 have not botanized much in the neighbourhood of Lancaster, but 

 if circumstances permit, I shall take a trip thither during the 

 present season, in search of A. Pulsatilla. 



Cineraria palustris. — Ray describes this plant as growing 

 plentifully in watery ditches about Pilling Moss, in Lancashire ; 

 to use his own words : — " Copiosissime autem in fossis aquosis 

 circa paludem Pillinmosse dictam in Lancastria." I have many 

 times botanized over Pilling Moss, or rather the remains of it, 

 but have never been fortunate enough to find the Cineraria. 

 The Moss is quite changed in its character since the time of Ray, 

 great part of it being now in cultivation, and the Drosera, Andro- 

 meda, Sphagnum, and many other families of marsh plants having 

 been succeeded by plentiful crops of Wheat, Oats, etc. I have 

 heard that the late Mr. Kenyon, a schoolmaster and botanist, 

 formerly residing in Preston, found the plant in question on the 

 Moss about twenty years since, but I cannot learn with any 

 degree of certainty that he did so. I have not given up all idea 

 of finding it, and hope to have another search for it during the 

 ensuing summer. 



LathrcBa squamaria. — Gerarde says of this plant, "It groweth 

 likewise neere Harwood, in Lancashire, a mile from Whanley, 

 in a wood called Talbot Banke." Mr. George Ward, an aged 

 botanist residing near Blackburn, told me last summer that he 

 had found the plant about thirty-five years since, on the bank of 

 the river Calder, about a mile from Whalley, I have much plea- 



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