4 Petty : Scrophularia balbisii in North Lancashire. 
the streams. Except in the runnels which issue from the peat ) 
mosses in the high basins of the fells, there is little colour in the 
lake water; even after prolonged rains it is always bright and 
sparkling, and brings with it little sand or mu 
With rain in such plenty, and with hollows vale forged in 
these impenetrable rocks, a network of lakes must naturally 
result. But how happy the coincidence! Had the hills been, 
like Ingleborough, built of limestone, or framed in chalk like 
the Wolds and Downs, this heavy rainfall would have worn 
them into mud and clay, and would have hollowed them into 
caverns and gorges, but it would have left us no sweet running 
water, no lonely mountain tarns, no lovely lowland lakes. Had 
these volcanic hills been placed more inland, or in a region of 
little rain, they would have been as waterless and sterile as the 
Esterelles of the Riviera. 
It is this exuberance of water no doubt which has given the 
finishing touches of loveliness to this igneous mountain-group. 
Cast in the fire, an image of wondrous beauty, water has done 
the chisel-work which was necessary for perfection. She has 
smoothed the slopes in contrast with the rugged summits, 
beauty; she has cut out ravines and chasms and strewn the 
glens with rocks; she has curved the ities of the hills and 
has levelled the green valleys, so that the eye loves to rest upon 
them; and still in the clouds that veil the mountains, in the 
brooks that leap down their sides, in the lakes and streams 
a bathe their feet, she remains the pee Goddess of the — 
and. Oe 
pare BOTAN Y. 
Scrophularia balbisii (Hornem.) in North Lancashire. — Some 
: eee res been taken to my statement that I have ‘seen 
aquatica L. itis: impossible. 
s present, and not umbrosa Dum -—S, L. Perry, Ulverston, oth Nov., 1897. 
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