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excursionists, as the generality of these, from lack of 

 experience, take nothing but the common forms such as 

 polypodiums, lastreas, athyriums, blechnums, parsley, &c. 

 which grow in such plentifulness, quickly multiply their 

 crowns, and in this moist climate of ours reproduce them- 

 selves so freely from spores and bulbils that it is almost 

 impossible to exterminate these varieties. The more 

 educated people who visit our Lake Country, and who 

 understand the composition of our flora and know the 

 habitats of rarest ferns and choicer alpine plants and 

 flowers have, I believe, too deep a reverence for the 

 inspiring influences of Nature to uproot any scarce species. 



There are numbers of other flowers which might be 

 detailed, but mostly of minor importance to those already 

 mentioned, my objedl being for the most part to discuss 

 some of the more popular and rarer of our native alpine 

 plants, the study of which has been to me a great joy and 

 privilege. The following to a certain extent are common, 

 and may be met with in almost every lane and woodland : 

 alchemilla alpina (lady's mantle), trollius Europ&us (globe 

 flower), thalictrum flavum (rue), armeria maritima (thrift), 

 campanula glomerata (bell flower), myosotis repens (forget- 

 me-not), rubus chamtzm&rus and saxatilis, polygonum vim- 

 parum, veronica (speedwell), bog myrtle or sweet gale, 

 anemone nemorosa (wood anemone), hawkweed, valerian, 

 plantain, betony, ground ivy, " Jack-by-the-hedge," starry 

 saxifrage (s. stellaris), henbane, agrimony, iris, loosestrife, 

 wood sorrel, toad flax or " rambling sailor," cleavers or 

 "Robin-run-by-t'-dyke," enchanter's nightshade, hippocrepis 

 comosa (horseshoe vetch), arenaria verna (sandwort), ceras- 

 tium alpinum (mouse ear chickweed). asperula odorata 

 (woodruffe), rhodiola rosea (rose root), epilobium angus- 

 tifolium (willow herb). 



I must not omit the name of one of our most 



