HODGSON : DISAPPEARANCE OF PLANTS IN CUMBERLAND. 9 
Leopard’s Bane. (779. Doronichum Pardalianches.) Grew on 
the west side of the fish-pond at Brayton Hall, .Aspatria, for 
many years ; was probably at best a garden outcast, and is now 
considered as extinct altogether. 
Purple Goat’s-beard or Salsafy. (894. Zragopogon porrifolius.) 
In Bishop Nicolson’s MS. list (1690) occurs the following 
entry :—‘ Anglicum non credit Johs. Ray.—About Jose, also in 
the fields about Carlile.’ Rose Castle, about six miles from 
Carlisle, is the seat of the Bishops of the diocese. Born and 
brought up in its immediate neighbourhood, I feel satisfied that 
no such plant exists there now. About 1856 several plants 
sprang up on a newly-dug grave in the churchyard of Aspatria, 
during my residence there. 
Bird’s-eye Primrose. (944. Primula farinosa.) At the close 
of last century was fairly plentiful in the meadows about 
Aspatria, where it is not now to be found. Draining and 
improved systems of agriculture are responsible for the change. 
In the upland valleys of the Lake District it still maintains its 
ground. | 
Calathian Violet. (973. Gentiana pneumonanthe.) According 
to the Rev. John Harriman, whose records as a rule are 
exceedingly reliable, this plant formerly grew ‘in a field between 
Maryport and Flimby ; 200-300 yards from the latter.’ A resi- 
dence of five years at Flimby enables me to say with confidence 
that no such plant exists there now. Probably extinct through 
drainage. I well remember a fine spring of water, overgrown 
with cresses, on the village green, which also has disappeared. 
Bog Bean. (979. Menyanthes trifoliata. Trifolium palustre sive 
paludosum of the older writers, see No. 574.) 
Black Night-Shade. (1016. Solanum nigrum) =S. vulgare 
officinarum. ‘Under the walls at Carlile.’ Now quite extinct 
there, and only sparingly found in any part of Cumberland. 
Now at Maryport ballast-heaps 
Deadly Night-Shade. (1018. Afropa belladonna) = Solanum 
lethale. ‘On and under the walls at Carlile, over against the 
Abbey Mill. Same as the preceding. 
Moth Mullein. (1026. Vexbascum blattaria.) Mentioned by the 
Rey. Jno. Dodd, Vicar of Aspatria in 1800, as plentiful in the 
church-yard there. The plant was quite unknown at that 
station in 1850; but in 1872, when the adjacent vicarage 
came to be rebuilt, and the garden levelled anew, the plant 
____Teappeared in hundreds. 
Jan, 891. 
