120 FLORA OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. 



542. Scabiosa columbaria, L. Native. Xerophilous. 

 English type. Range 1. Cliffs and dry banks. Confined to 

 the limestone. 



C. Nethertown near Egremont. — (J. Robson.) Slapestones 

 How, Penrith. — (W. Hodgson.) Hensingham Quarry. — 

 (Whitehaven Cat.) 



W. Plentiful at Cunswick Scar near Kendal, and on the 

 limestone hills about Whitbarrow and Arnside ; limestone 

 quarries at Clibburn and Great Strickland. — (B.) Closes 

 between Waterfall Bridge and Melkenthorpe near Penrith. — 

 (Lawson.) About Shap and Shap Abbey, up to 350 yards. — 

 (Watson, B.) 



L. Rocks of Yewbarrow over Grange. — (W. Foggitt, B.) 



543. Knautia arvensis, Coult. (Field Scabious). Native. 

 British type. Range 1. Dry banks and cultivated fields. 

 Frequent in the lower zone; ascending to 300 yards in lime- 

 stone quarries in Shap village, and as high over Coniston by 

 the road up the Old Man. 



ORDER COMPOSITE. 



544. Tragopogon pratensis, L. (Goat's Beard). Native. 

 British type. Range 1. Grassy places. Frequent ; ascending 

 to 250 yards near Shap. — (Watson.) Abundant on the rail- 

 way embankment near Corkickle station. 



Tragopogon porrifolius, L. (Salsify). Alien. 



C. Workington. — (W.Dickinson.) Fields about Rose Castle 

 and Carlisle. — (Nicholson.) Came up on a newly-dug grave 

 in a corner of Aspatria churchyard in 1854. I never saw it 

 near Rose Castle, within half a mile of which I was born. — 

 (W. Hodgson.) Modern confirmation wanted. 



