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tack Ferns, Just before reaching the railway bridge, about three- 

 quarters of a mile from the hotel, a gate opens into a marshy- 

 field on the right. In this field flourish Hypericum Elodes and 

 Veronica scutellata, both of which I found in flower on a former 

 occasion in the month of July. 



On the road to Gosforth, about a quarter of a mile from the 

 hotel, I noticed growing sparingly Polypodium vulgare and As- 

 plenium Adiantuin-nigrum, whilst nearer Gosforth the hedge- 

 banks are mostly monopolized by luxuriant plants of Stellaria 

 graminea and Potentilla reptans ; Lotus major also sends up its 

 straggling stems here and there. Neat, impenetrable hedges of 

 Ulex europceus line the road and adjoining fields for a consider- 

 able distance. As you go from the hotel to Gosforth, the first 

 or second divergence to the right, down a grassy lane, then to 

 an angle of a field on the right, remarkable at first sight for no- 

 thing but a tangled network of thorns and briers, will lead the 

 plant collector to Scutellaria galericulata and S. minor ; the 

 latter was a welcome sharer of what room my vasculum still af- 

 forded, as it was new to me. Proceeding towards Gosforth, a 

 road branches ofi" on the right to Calder Bridge ; following this, 

 we find our old friend Potentilla i^eptans still present. After 

 securing a few sprigs of Genista tinctoria by the way, a pond on 

 the right, surrounded with rank vegetation, is too tempting to 

 be left unexplored. The water, owing to the late drought, was 

 scanty, so that I had no difficulty in securing Ranunculus coeno- 

 sus and R. aquatilis ; on the margin grew Solanum Dulcamara 

 and gigantic specimens of Rumex Acetosa. 



■ Behind the hotel is a grassy ravine, the further slope of which, 

 later in the season, is beautified by Erythrcea Centaurium. Here 

 also, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood, are dense tufts of Iris 

 Pseudacorus. 



Such is a very imperfect notice of plants in the immediate 

 vicinity of Sea Scale. I have chiefly confined myself to such as 

 are not generally met with. If my simple " pencilling by the 

 way " should induce any reader of the ^ Phy tologist ' to make 

 this his starting-point for the Lakes, I should be glad if such a 

 one would add a supplement to my list. A short ride by rail 

 takes the traveller to St. Bees, near which is a headland com- 

 posed of New Red Sandstone. Large fragments of rock, which 

 have from time to time become detached from the frowning 



