IV PREFACE. 



training up a new generation of observers, who cannot 

 obtain access to the botanical periodicals and older 

 works of a general character, and, even if they could, 

 have no fair chance of understanding the gap which, 

 from a scientific point of view, separates Watson and 

 Borrer from Richardson and Hutton. I have con- 

 sidered the district which I have included as extending 

 northward and eastward to Allonby, Wigton, Penrith, 

 and Tebay, but have not always strictly kept to an 

 exact limit in those directions. Broadly speaking, there 

 are two wide tracts of country included in Watson's 

 Lake Province not here dealt with, the low- lying 

 northern half of Cumberland, often called the Plain 

 of Carlisle, and the western slope of the Pennine Chain 

 through Cumberland and Westmoreland. The Lake 

 District, as here treated, is a mountainous tract with a 

 distinct physical individuality of its own, and with a 

 distinct botanical individuality, both in respect of the 

 plants that are present and those that are rare or 

 absent, the details of which I have endeavoured here 

 to record as faithfully as I could. So many people 

 have botanised at one time or another at the Lakes, 

 that I doubt not this record will fall into the hands of 

 many who will be able materially to modify it and add 

 to it, and I shall be glad to receive any notes on the 

 further range of species, with a view of using them in 

 a new edition. 



J. G. BAKER. 



Kew Herbarium, 

 Feb. 1885. 



