296 BOTANICAL EXCURSION IN 
abont four miles and a half from Keswick, 
on the road to Lorton, where I first ob- 
served it, thirty-five years ago. 
only in one spot, and according to Mr. 
Wright, is not to be found any where else 
in the neighbourhood. 
On the 16th I ascended Helvellyn by 
Fisher Place Gill. This little stream de- 
scends in'the lower part of its course 
through a very confined rocky ravine, or- 
namented here and there with a few bushes, 
and forming several pretty cascades. Here 
is found Pyrola secunda, which is lost in 
Ashness Gill, the* place to which Hutton 
used to conduct the Botanists who applied 
to him. Above this confined part of the 
stream, we found Listera cordata and Jun- 
cus triglumis, and a Pinguicula, which 
is perhaps grandiflora. The flower is very 
much larger than in the common appear- 
ance of P. vulgaris, and the border is 
abundantly veiny, but the corolla is not 
“ nearly regular," as described by Sir J. E. 
Smith, nor are the lateral lobes truncated, 
or the lower one notched, as pointed out 
by Dr. Hooker, though the tower division 
does appear somewhat retuse. Many of my 
Yorkshire specimens, which have no pre- 
tensions to be called P. grandiflora, have 
the corolla veined, and the leaves are more 
or less veined in all of them. In the fresh 
plant the veins of the corolla are wide and 
indistinct ; in drying they shrink and be- 
come more definite. From the top of Hel- 
vellyn we descended to Striden Edge, 
where we found Cerastium alpinum, Rho- 
diola rosea, in perfection, Sazifraga hyp- 
noides, var. platypetala, Oxyria reni ifor- 
mis, and other mountain plants, but I added 
nothing to what I had gathered there on a 
Beiber. occasion, unless, perhaps, a species 
of Hieracium, not quite in flower, which 
I have not yet been able to determine. 
l7th was very wet, and I went to 
O ictehaten, thinking I might have better 
coge when a lite: away from the moun- 
tains. The following morning, however, 
was still rainy, and I scrambled on the sea 
towards es'head, among the 
high gra grass and batas loaded with water. 
found nothing but Vicia sylvatica, 
THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 
Asplenium marinum, and Holen 
viridis. 
On the 20th, after a wet night, the wea- 
ther cleared up, and I went in the Carlisle — 
stage to Flimsby, where I found Sisym- 
brium Monense (Brassica, Br. Fl) Mro 
Otley has since told me that he got Litho- — 
spermum maritimum in the same neigh- — 
bourhood, on the outside of a little patch of - 
cultivated land, between the road and the - 
sea, almost the only part of the coast which 
did not examine. My chief object in 
this excursion was to seek for Geranium. 
striatum, of which Mr. Wright had shown 
me specimens, gathered on the sandy. E 
ground near the sea, where he had found —— 
it mixed with G. sanguineum. Mr. | 
Wright had accompanied me part of the 
way to Whitehaven, and then left me to — 
visit a daughter who was unwell, in the 
neighbourhood of Ennerdale. Being nearer 
to the mountains, the weather had 
heavier with him than at Whitehaven, and. $ 
I did not see him again till the evening of 
the 18th, after which he returned to his 
daughter, leaving his box with me. He 
was to have met the stage on the 20th, and 
to accompany me to Flimsby, and I brought 
his box with me to Workington, and there 
left it, since he did not arrive in time. I 
** Opposite the first 
turned from the valley of the Derwent to ; 
follow the coast towards Maryport.” I 
mention all these circumstances, because 
as the plant has not hitherto been coi 
into the British Flora, and the station 1$ 
such as hardly to permit the possibility ot 
its being an accidental escape from a ee 
den, some persons might, from what fol- 
lows, imagine that Wright had brought it 
to the spot, and I wish to show how ex- 
tremely difficult, if not impossible, it would 
have been for him to do so, even if 
deception, which I am persuaded that 
is not. After some time spent in the E 
he called me, and I saw him standing with | 
