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such as Hugh, is by no means obvious ; but he had certainly 

 achieved the honour of being a chief citizen." 



The Wall-rue (Asplenium Buta-murariaJ grows luxuriantly on 

 the walls of the Church and on other old edifices about the place. 



Leaving the Church the party, still under the guidance of Mr 

 Forster, started for Aydon Castle, a fortified mansion about a 

 mile and a half N.E. from Corbridge, which, dating from the 13th 

 century, has been recently repaired, and is now inhabited by the 

 tenant of the farm attached to it. As we issued from the town 

 we passed on the left hand several garden allotments, granted by 

 the late Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, to the inhabitants 

 of Corbridge, and believed to occupy the site of one of the three 

 churches once existing in Corbridge, in addition to the Church of 

 St. Andrew which we had just quitted. We soon left the public 

 road, and followed a narrower path along Wain-House Lane, the 

 route followed by waggons, or wains, in conveying limestone 

 from some now disused quarries to the kiln. The lane is sunk 

 between high banks clothed with a'luxuriant growth of bramble, 

 honeysuckle, and wild rose. The botanists of the party picked 

 up along the road and lane, going and returning, Chenopodium 

 Bonus Senricus, Ballota nigra, Plantago media, Galium Mollugo, 

 Tragopogon minor, Betonica officinalis. Origanum vulgare, Cyno- 

 glossum officinale. Reseda Luteola, Hypericum perforatum, and pulch- 

 rum, and Sieracium subaudum, which last is very conspicuous, and 

 at this season a characteristic flower of the district. It was after- 

 wards found in perfection at Dilston, and by a detachment of the 

 party on the following day on the banks of the Tyne at Choller- 

 ford. Leaving the lane we followed a bridle-path through some 

 fields to the lower part of the dean on the west bank of which 

 stands the Castle. In one of the fields grew an amazing profu- 

 sion of the wild carrot, Baucus Carota. The plant stood as thick 

 as if it had been sown for a crop, although we learned that it 

 was regarded by the farmer as a troublesome weed. The path 

 wound through the finely-wooded dean — where we observed 

 Prunus Padus growing — and crossing the rivulet in the bottom, 

 rose by a steep ascent and brought us abruptly in view of the 

 ancient mansion. For a building more than half a thousand 

 years old it presents a wonderfully fresh appearance, having 

 been carefully repaired by the present proprietor. Sir Edward 

 Black ett, Bart., of Matfen. We were most courteously received 

 by Mr and Mrs EoweU, and conducted over the house, where 



