LIST OP THE PRINCIPAL 



FLOWERING PLANTS, FERNS, AND MOSSES 



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 WINDERMERE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



The banks of Windermere afford many objects of interest to 

 the lover of British wild flowers ; so numerous and various, indeed, 

 are the more or less rare plants to be found in the lake itself, — 

 in the mountain tarns, streams, woods and bogs, and on the fells 

 and heaths, that it is difficult to give a satisfactory account of 

 them in the space of a short chapter. A general description of 

 the Flora of the district may, however, be of some use to the 

 tourist who, in passing through the country, wishes to secure 

 anything which may be worthy of a place in his herbarium or 

 garden. The writer proposes to enumerate the least common 

 plants which have been found within about three miles of the 

 lake, occasionally noticing objects of peculiar interest which are 

 found at a greater distance. 



Of the order Ranunculacsee, Thalictrum flavum is not uncommon 

 about the margin of the lake ; T. minus is also found ; the beau- 

 tiful gljbe-flower TroUius europceus is abundant in various 

 situations ; Helleborus virdis occurs in two situations near 

 "Windermere terminus, and H. foeetidus grows near the road 

 between Bowness and Kendal j it is very probable that both 

 these are introduced ; Aquilegia vulgaris is found in numerous 

 places. 



Of Nymphoeaceoe, Nymphoea alba and Nuphar lutea are frequent 

 in the lake and many of the mountain tarns. 



Of Papaveracese, Meconopsis cambrica is not uncommon, and in 

 some places, such as near the Ferry Inn and other parts of 



