Io HODGSON : DISAPPEARANCE OF PLANTS IN CUMBERLAND. 
Tooth-wort. (1091. Zathrza sqguamaria.) 1 take leave to intro- 
duce this species for the purpose of stating that I have reliable 
evidence of its tendency to abandon its stations in a temporary 
fashion, as it were; only to make its appearance afresh after 
an interval of 30 or 4o years. This peculiarity was first 
mentioned to me by my late venerable friend, the Rev. Robert 
Wood, vicar of Westward, near Wigton, for upwards of 60 years. 
The late vicar was an excellent and reliable botanist. 
Catmint. (1128. Mefeta cataria.) =‘ Mentha cataria, nep or cat- 
mint. In the Abbey grounds, and under the walls at Carlile.’ 
Motherwort. (1147. Leonurus cardiaca.) ‘Inter rudera, as in the 
Abbey at Carlile.’ At Flimby. The only place where Mother- 
wort now exists near the city is in the church-yard at Grinsdale. 
Black Horehound. (1155. Ballota nigra.) ‘About the walls at 
Carlile.’ This, like the two preceding species, is no longer in 
evidence at or near the city of Carlisle. At Workington Marsh. 
Sand Plantain. (1169. Plantago arenaria.) This alien was 
noticed growing abundantly in a flax crop at Flimby Woodside 
Farm in 1884, associated with Adonis autumnalis The seed 
Portland a Sipe (1256. Euphorbia portlandica.) In most 
old plant lists this species is marked as growing on the coast 
between Maryport and Workington, and especially on the beach 
at Flimby. Like Crambe maritima, it has become extinct, and 
from the same cause. A single plant was noticed in 1888, close 
to Flimby Railway Station, which disappeared after a high tide. 
Pellitory of the Wall. (1269. Parietaria officinalis.) ‘On the 
walls of Carlile, copiost.’ Now extinct. The ancient city 
walls have been pulled down—only a very small portion 
remaining. Torpenhow Churchyard wall. 
Yellow Star of Bethlehem. (1419. Gagea fascicularis) = 
‘Ornithogalum luteum, sive coepe agraria. In Willie’s Wood 
plentifully.” Willie’s Wood (Great Salkeld) was visited in 
1889, and on the site was seen a young and dense plantation 
of spruce and silver firs; no trace of Gagea, or indeed of 
any vegetation, apart from the young timber. A very rare 
plant in the county now. 
Autumnal Meadow Saffron. (1421. Colchicum autumnale.) 
Until about 1864 was fairly abundant in a large meadow, 
Naturalist, 
