2 Hodgson: Occurrence of Rare Plants in Cumberland. 
-Rumex maritimus L. Golden Dock. During the same 
month of July 1897, while visiting the ballast heaps at Maryport, 
I found about a dozen examples of this dock, a species new to 
me, growing in a moist hollow, associated with about an 
equal number of plants of Chenopodium polyspermum , and 
Ch. opulzfolium, and.a single specimen of Bromus schraderz, 
a South American brome grass, probably the offspring of a 
number of that species discovered close to the same place in 
1890-91. The dock has not made its appearance this year, and 
only a few plants of the fig-leaved goosefoot of exceptional size 
now mark the spot. 
_ Trientalis europea 1. European Chickweed Winter : 
Green. Not many days ago I was informed by Mr. Harold 
Adair, of Foxhouses, Whitehaven, that the Chickweed Winter 
Green had been discovered in Upper Eskdale, in the south-west 
of the county, by Miss Edith Pearson, of Wigton, while staying 
in that valley during the month of June in the present year. 
She did not know the plant, but my correspondent, who also 
was staying in Eskdale at the same time, and knew the plant 
well, explained to her—what the lady herself had no conception 
of--that the chickweed-looking specimen was of uncommon 
rarity in these parts, and indeed was not very plentiful where 
— found 
Vicia orobus D.C. Wood Bitter Vetch. Mr. Harold 
_ Adair also informed me at the same time that he had found the 
Wood Bitter Vetch high up in the same valley beyond the 
highest railway station, ‘The Boot,’ where it is quite plentiful 
_ about the edges of meadows. Up to the date of my friend’s 
discovery all the records respecting this plant were confined to 
. the district of Cumberland lying between the river Eden and the 
_ Pennine Hills, or as Bishop Nicolson puts it in his MS., ‘Great 
Salkeld copiosé, sed presertim apud Blencarn—nostratibus 
= se.’ I recollect Mr. P. H. Grimshaw having some 
Aue finds in the same valley a few years ago. 
_ Chrysanthemum coronaria. Alien. Found growing on 
"some poultry runs on the south side of Silloth Dock, in August 
of the present year, 1898. I had noted it on some household 
refuse at Risehow, Maryport, in 1886. 
Xanthium spinosum L. Alien. A few stray specimens of 
the above species have appeared during twelve successive 
_ Seasons, including the past year, on the south side of the dock 
at Silloth. They have in no instance been known to. ripen seed 
Seah and ous there is no ravens diminution in number. The 
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