8 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



PLANTS OF THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT. 



By the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S. 



These few notes are supplementary to those of Messrs. Ley 

 and W. B. Linton, published in this Journal, 1906, pp. 171-3, as 

 well as to Mr. J. G. Baker's Flora of the Lake District, and Mr. 

 A. W. Bennett's paper in this Journal for 1885, pp. 330-1. 



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They refer to plants observed by me in the district last summer 

 during a first visit, which lasted five weeks and included all July. 

 They also contain a few localities from which ray daughter brought 

 me living specimens. These are distinguished from the rest by the 

 addition of her initials, M. A. R. The lakes, the shores and neigh- 

 bourhood of which I partially botanized, were Windermere, Ulls- 

 water, Grasmere, Thirlmere, and Derwentwater. While examining 

 the general flora as completely as I could at from 300 to 800 ft. above 

 the sea-level, I paid especial attention to the Rubi ; and my full 

 report of these, given below, includes a description of one of the 

 most generally distributed and most constant forms met witn, 

 which is certainly new to our British list, and distinct from all the 

 allied Continental forms represented in my herbarium. For tins 

 I am suggesting the provisional name /?• lacustris. Localities for 

 it, and for all the other brambles seen, are given in detail; but a 

 brief summary of the results may not be out of place here. My 

 R. dusyphyllus (II. pallidum Bab. non Wb. & N.) proved to be far the 

 commonest, a& usually the most luxuriant, frutico^e Rubus through- 

 out the district ; as I believe it to be in the hilly parts of Nortu 

 England generally. At times it was the only bramble seen for 

 nines ; and in most neighbourhoods it seemed at least as abundant 

 as all otiier forms put together. Next after it in frequency came 

 R. Selmeri Lindeb. ; and then, I think, my R. lacustris. ii. pulcher- 

 rimus Neum. seemed to be the only other common bramble; though 

 It Lindeberyii'P. J. Muell, R. Lindieianus Lees, and a few of the 

 Suberecti were fairly frequent locally. Caesians were all rare, and 

 nearly all the glandular forms ; while R. lem-hostachys Sm. was con- 

 fined to two localities, and I altogether failed to find II. rusticcvius 

 Merc, and several other of our frequent south country species. 

 This experience might of course have been considerably modified 

 had I been able to explore the country to the west of Grasmere and 

 Derwentwater, or even to examine more exhaustively the country 

 through which I passed. 



The two counties Westmoreland (Top. Bot. 69) and Cumberland 

 (70) are indicated by their initial letters ; and what I believe to be 

 new records for either have an asterisk prefixed. 



Ranunculus Lenormandi F. Schultz. C. Near Threlkeld, Kes- 

 wick.— ZWZius europaus Linn. W. By Goldrill, about midway be- 

 tween Patterdale and Brothers' Water ; in good quantity. 



Mccouop.sis cambrica Vig. The great abundance of this through- 

 out the district is so remarkable as to justify its claim to be a 

 denizen at least in both W. and C. It occurs by the River Rothay, 



