PETTY: NORTH (OR LAKE) LANCASHIRE FLORA. 85 
Mr. James Atkinson. Ina field on the Old Hall estate, near 
Ulverston, said by the tenant: there to have come with ashes 
from the town. In this case a large area is covered by it. 
Fields about Springfield, near Ulverston, said by a gardener to 
have been introduced by ‘ throwing onto the land the sweepings 
of the potting-shed,’ which contained bulbs that had been forced 
and so useless, that is from a gardener’s point of view. But, 
if so, why have no white or yellow varieties survived? Aiton 
(1843) records it from ‘near Swarthmoor Hall.’ From this 
locality I have not seen or had it reported. But as Springfield 
and Swarthmoor are adjoining estates, it may be Aiton’s 
locality. Fields about the Lund. This may be Aiton’s (1843) 
locality, ‘Field at Dragley Beck, near Ulverston.’ But it is 
difficult to say now, as this portion of Ulverston has, of course, 
changed since 1843. 
“Narcissus major (Linn.), and N. major fl. pl. (Curt). 
Naturalised in many of the old orchards in Furness, and but 
seldom escaping. See Watson’s Top. Bot., 1883, p. 398, last 
paragraphs of Marcissus pseudo-narcissus. 
*Narcissus poeticus fl. pl. Thoroughly naturalised, on the bank 
of a stream in a field at Ashlack Hall. So far as is known the 
plant is not, and has not been, grown in the garden there. It 
is no exaggeration to say ‘abundant.’ Known there for 40 
years, I am told, and plentiful then. In a meadow near the 
Duddon ; a few plants only now. Although far away from any 
house or garden, it is an escape. Known in this locality for 
the last 25 years. The person who found it, a relation of 
mine, told me that ‘there were plenty then,’ i-e., 25 years since. 
Mr. Baker wrote—‘ Evidently double Poeticus.’ 
Galanthus nivalis. In a wood near Broughton Mills. In a 
wood near Broughton-in-Furness. A few plants in a field near 
Bortree Stile, Ulverston ; probably carried with rubbish from 
garden there. I have seen the double cultivated form on the 
hedge bank, on road-side, outside a farm-house garden, from 
whence it had escaped. I give it so that it may be entered as 
most certainly a garden plant, and by no amount of imagina- 
tion can it be called naturalised. 
_In regard to these bulbous plants, it may be stated that I am 
‘quite aware of, and agree with, what Mr. Lees says in his Flora of 
West Yorkshire about their dispersal and their claims. 
: In conclusion, I have seen Aides sanguineum in a hedge on a road- 
side, and Phalaris canariensis on ballast on railway ; but these plants 
cannot be included. | 
FCA 1892, 
