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NOTES—BOTANY. 
Ray’s and Nicolson’s och Cumberland preg ptaaete amo 
readable notice of eee: s Petiver and his Collections,’ in t ohne 
sts coy 1899, p. 12 and seq., Me ‘G. ti — tells us shat “the tine 1695 
endl Fetiver’ s first appearance as an author, as in that year was issued 
Gibs son f Camde ns torwhich Bativer contetuibad the list of Middlesex 
plants. “Says Mr. Apperson :—‘ Ray contributed these lists in every case 
a 
botany, but as a sam sou abpanas iF ore ar of a north country 
ple 
matter.—S. L. PETTY, Livesaions el April 
Parable of the Mustard -—I have ee a reprint from the 
‘Thirsk and District News’ (no date) of a lecture by Mr. William Foggitt, 
f Thi Jog a ry of the Bi Wit i 
matters our journal o business, but some portions Yorkshire 
botanists may be ‘terested: Speaking of ae paces af. the mustard seed, 
he says that in his young days he had never seen the plant more than two 
or two and a half feet high, but a few years ago, in 1 oke’s, 
one mile south of Thirsk, he saw a number of plants, with stout stems and 
strong, spreading branches, which he recorded as four and a fer feet high, 
and two years hegre, tly he saw some taller still, in any o 
called ‘fowls heaven’ could have lodged. It must have hee a good 
“saree judging from the range of topics and the known ability of the 
. ie sie is a far cry to’—we _ ron Sigaedrrrprs! man to the Unicorn, 
cepa s milk’ on the way, f -are told that ornithagalum bears 
Rae ianecaretation —S. L. Petty, Ulverston, ye pril 1899. 
Blea nar: Watendlath Tarns in Baker’s ‘Flora of the Lake 
District.’ e April number of ‘The Naturalist’ Mr. Waterfall re 
‘Flo 
attention ap some unc ertaitity in the naming of these tarns in the 
as the sniewend of certain ts. 
Mr. Bak aks of ‘Blea Tarn’ (p. 24), ‘Blea Tarn, 500 yds.’ (p. 142), 
‘Little Langdate e Blea Tarn’ (pp. 173 and 215), ‘Blea Ta ne Watendlath’ 
(pp. 197 and 247), ‘ Upper ‘Watend- 
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ntry: 0 
(612 ft.), another in Eskdale above Boot (700 ft.), and a third at the head of | 
the Watendlath Valley sais ft.). There is also Blea Water (1,584 ft.) in 
High S ds.,’ 
Mardale under Hig’ reet. Sipe is likely to be the ‘ Blea Tarn, 500 yds., 
because the Watendlath "Blea rn is distinguished elsewhere by name, but 
ittorella. 
There is only one Watendlath Tarn (847 ft.): this is prow Baker's 
‘Lower Watendlath Tarn.’ By the ‘Upper Tarn’ I feel sure that Dock 
r 
Tarn (1, t.) is meant. This is usually reached from Water lath Tarn 
and hamlet, to which place, although draining into another vane it lies 
ch nearer than does Watendlath’s own mother tar i 
especially mentions (p. 24) that the White Waterlily is very fine the — 
‘Upper Watendlath Tarn,’ and I have never seen this noble plant in ein reater 
perfection than in Ww it o ies a great part of the centre 
of the water, i beautiful crescent-shaped ga It h 
g y isit it in July, when it is is 
a long journey to July, fale) Dock Tarn 
unusually sheltered in its high position, lying deep Borctignet eric eaolls: 
Watendlath Blea Tarn (which can be the only other competitor Sie the 
ar 
name ‘ r ) es, on the other hand, bleak and bare r- 
lily certainly does not flourish there, for few plants 
waters, although under their shallower margins Subularia and Jsoetes lacustris 
take re uge i in great abundance, and probably al SO J obe z 
Littorella, 
ania t Leeds, 7th. April 1899. 
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