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INTERESTING BOTANICAL FINDS IN CUMBERLAND. 
WILLIAM HODGSON, A.L.S., 
Workington, Cumberland. 
In the course of the last few weeks several finds of plants not of 
common or everyday occurrence have taken place, chiefly in the 
immediate neighbourhood of Carlisle. These finds are due to 
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for inspection and corroboration or otherwise of the finder’s own 
ideas as to their identity. I am glad to report that these ideas 
have in the main proved quite accurate. One of the most 
productive stations examined by Mr. Thomson appears to have 
been a gravel bed by the river Eden, opposite the village of 
Grinsdale, and on the right bank of the river. This gravel bed 
was mentioned to me some years ago by Mr. W. Duckworth, of 
Ulverston, during his abode in Carlisle, as a favourite hunting 
ground in his time, and Mr. Thomson’s recent forays go to verify 
Mr. Duckworth’s high opinion of its attractiveness in the eyes 
of a student of botany. The following, with other species, ae 
been gathered there recently, viz.:—Raphanus sativus, Asperu 
arvensis, Saponaria Vaccaria, Scandix Pecien-veneris, Sar 
latifolia, Caucalis nodosa, Stlaus pratensis, this last at King 
Garth, a fishery station belonging to the Carlisle Corporation, 
where also he gathered specimens of Thalictrum minus var. 
montanum, a lakeland species which I had met with long years 
ago, growing at the foot of the cliffs a pp eget in the 
Ullswater district of Westmorland. It i ‘far cry,’ surely, 
from the latter station to King Garth. Mr. Thomson further 
noted the occurrence of the Knotted Hedge Parsley on the 
' opposite bank of the river, near the Caledonian railway bridge. 
Erigeron acre and Arabis sagittata were found on a garden wall 
near the Gelt Woods, between Carlisle and Brampton; Pulicaria 
dysenterica on the Eden banks nearly opposite to the village of 
Kirkandrews. This plant was formerly reported from Etterby 
Scar, nearly opposite to Carlisle city, but it is questionable, in 
the estimation of the Rev. H. Friend, whether it any longer 
cillatum, which is also a confirmation of previous records by 
Mee OMe. Duckworth and Mr. T. C. Heysham, at one time Mayor 
- October 1899. 
