8 HODGSON: DISAPPEARANCE OF PLANTS IN CUMBERLAND. 
es i aro Geranium. (292. Geranium striatum.) In 
C. Watson’s supplementary list for Cumberland, vide 
‘ Le Heats s Guide,’ p. 661, we read as follows : ‘ Geranium 
striatum is said to have been found between Flimsby (clearly 
a misprint for Flimby) and Workington, opposite the first gate 
after the road has turned from the valley of the Derwent to 
follow the coast towards Maryport.’ The station so explicitly 
defined here is now entirely built upon, and covered by streets 
of houses occupied by the workmen employed at the West 
Cumberland Iron and Steel Company’s extensive works. The 
plant is found elsewhere within the county, but its claim to rank 
as indigenous here cannot be allowed. 
Narrowest Bird’s-foot Trefoil. (369. Lotus angustissimus.) 
Another plant of the adventive type which came up about 
twenty-five years ago upon a newly-formed railway slope near 
Bullgill Station on the Derwent Branch Railway, but gradually 
decreased in number for eight or ten years, and is not now to 
be found. 
Round-leaved Sundew. (574. Drosera rotundifolia.) Ros solts folio 
retundo of the Bishop’s list ; located by him in Mr. Richardson’s 
Birch Close at Great Salkeld, near Penrith, of which parish 
his Lordship was rector prior to his elevation to the See of 
Carlisle. On inquiry last year on the spot, I was informed by 
an aged farmer that within his own recollection Birch Close had 
been drained, and Sundew, Bog Bean, White Rot, etc., had all 
vanished. 
Venus’s Comb. (643. Scandix pecten-veneris.) Near St. Nicholas, 
Carlile (Bishop Nicolson). Streets and railways now occupy the 
position indicated. 
Fistulous Water-Dropwort. (651. Gnanthe fistulosa.) Until 
about 1874, grew on the edge of Salta or Saltom Moss, near 
Allonby. Has not been seen for four or five seasons, and 
seems to have perished altogether ; cause unknown. 
Spignel or Bald-money. (661. Meum athamanticum.) Grew 
formerly at Fell-End, in Ennerdale, on the left bank of the 
river Ehen ; now, however considered as extinct. No cause 
assigned. 
Small Blue Fleabane. (733. Ericeron acre.) Grew very sparingly 
upon the village green at Dalston, near-Carlisle; but a new 
highway formed across the green some six or seven years ago, 
entirely destroyed the station, and slight hope is entertained of 
the plant’s re-appearance. 
Naturalist, 
