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Inula dysenterica. Hedge-bank of one lane off Bare towards 
Matsicacis salina Bab. N.C.R. This handsomest of the 
+ gathas’ or ‘False Marguerites,’ with neat foliage and 
a disproportionately large anthodes, grew in clumps on the 
f pebble beyond Scalestones Point ; with a bold condensed 
form of Linaria vulgaris almost meriting the term ‘speczosa,’ 
but that its ‘fat’ leaves were only one-nerved. The salinity 
ii of the air seems to dwarf the fodder and enlarge the 
blossoms of many plants, so that, weedy inland, they 
become posy-worth by the sea. 
Achillea Ptarmica, with full rosy blossom heads, grew by a 
ditch in one spot inland, and on a bank near it the common | 
Yarrow was of a fine red also. The Eyebright of the turf 
showed a disposition to empurpling of the corolla as well. 
This may be an exceptional seasonal influence, for the ~ 
Convolvulus Sepium of the hedges was. pinked, too, in places; 
and the dykeful Mints were purple-bronze of leaf everywhere; 
likewise the Black Bryony and Bindweed foliage. Nowhere 
in the district, either, did the writer notice an albino, a white 
Harebell, Bugle, Betony Basil, or Self-heal, such as are 
me years so very frequent. 
Gentiana Amarella. On sea bank turf north of Bare, sparingly, 
with Scabzosa Columbaria, rayed Centaurea nigra, Erythrea 
Centaurtum, and Lycopsis arvensis, Bare, one plant only. \ ae 
ae Clinopodium Spenn., N.C.R., we rather “a5 
common (go vice-counties) high-census species. This was 
sada on dry, bushy banks in three other spots. 
Verbascum Blattaria.* Moth Mullein. N.C.R. Three plants 
in bloom of this fine biennial grew in a poultry-run on.a 
waste strip of ground near the Elms Hotel at Bare. _ 
Possibly alien, but harder than usual to decide, as Verbascum — 
Thapsus grew near it, and in several other places, even on 
the shingles by the seaa little to the north. The Verbascums, 
too, are everywhere uncertain visitors, and their seeds are 
amongst those which can lie, viable yet ungerminating, in 
soil for considerable periods. This Moth Mullein, too, has, 
I see from Petty’s Lake Lancashire Flora, turned up occa- 
sionally in gravelly places in Furness and Cartmel, at least 
Since 1843, the date of the first record. In the north at 
any rate—and now seldomer than ever—are these biennial 
Mulleins grown in gardens as border flowers. 
Tee 
