BOTANY 
results therefore are but meagre and incomplete. Would that some zealous worker, with 
youth on his side, would undertake its further exploration and development. 
The following are the most noteworthy species recorded from this area as at present 
known, viz. : Ranunculus fluitans, Lam., a flore pleno variety, occurs in the river Eden, near 
Carlisle ; the type is also reported from the river Cairn, near Heads Nook ; Berberis vulgaris, 
Ls near Rosehill, Gilsland, in hedgerows as a substitute for Crategus Oxyacantha ; Cheiranthus 
Cheiri, L., walls of Lanercost Priory ; Draba muralis, L., nursery grounds a mile north of 
Carlisle ; Lhlaspi alpestre, L., everywhere common about the lead mines at Alston, along with 
Arenaria verna, L. (J. G. Baker); Althea officinalis, L., on the cliffs at Rockcliffe; Radiola 
Linoides, Roth, near Long Meg, Little Salkeld ; Rhamnus catharticus, L., hill near Gilsland ; 
Vicia Orobus, DC., ‘Circa Great Salkeld copiose, sed presertim apud Blencarn, nostratibus 
“Horse Pease,”’” Bishop Nicolson’s MS. 1690 ; Rubus saxatilis, L.,lower Nent Force, Tynehead, 
on limestone rocks, J. G. Baker ; Rubus Chamemorus, L., Christenbury Crags, Knoutberry Fell, 
over Nenthead ; Rosa sfinosissima, L., Westlinton to Scaleby and round Gamblesby under 
Cross Fell ; R. mollis, Sm., very fine about the outskirts of Solway Moss to Netherby Moat, 
Penton, etc. ; R. tomentosa, var. d. scabriuscula (Sm.), by the river Irthing beneath Burdoswald ; 
Sedum villosum, L., Hartside Fell (Ray) ; Drosera intermedia, Hayne, abundant on Solway 
Moss ; Epilobium alpinum, L., springs at the east end of Cross Fell, over the Cashwell mine 
(600 to 700 yards) J. G. Baker; Carum verticillatum, Koch, Kingmoor, northward of 
Carlisle ; Caucalis nodosa, Scop., gravel bed on the river Eden, opposite Grinsdale village, 
below Carlisle, associated there with Asperula arvensis, L.; Valeriana pyrenaica, L., in a wood 
between Oakbank Farm, Longtown, and Solway Moss in great plenty ; Erigeron acre, L., on 
an old wall at Gelt woods, Brampton ; Cnicus heterophyllus, Willd., by the Solport burn, near 
its junction with the river Lyne; Vaccinium uliginosum, L., at Gamblesby, six miles from 
Penrith (Ray) ; Centunculus minimus, L., Kingmoor, over Carlisle ; Mentha rotundifolia, Huds., 
waste ground east of Rockcliffe station ; Galeopsis versicolor, Curt., near Cumwhitton ; AZyrica 
Gale, L., Solway Moss, Longtown ; Salix purpurea, L., banks of the Esk, Longtown ; 8. rubra, 
Huds., by Brunstock Beck, near Drawdykes Castle; Elodea canadensis Mich., pool by the 
river Eden, a little way above Lazonby Bridge ; Habenaria conopsea, Benth., extremely fine 
in meadows from Soalmaine to Kirkcambeck ; Alum Schanoprasum, L., near Edward the 
Sixth’s wall at Wall Town; near Gilsland on the Roman Wall; Butomus umbellatus, L., 
associated with Elodea canadensis, near Lazonby Bridge; Rynchospora alba, Vahl., Bolton Fell 
and other northern moors ; Carex pendula, Huds., Lyneside woods, below Racks Bridge ; 
also by the Liddle at Penton Linns, where also C. remota, L., abounds; C. vulpina, L., estuary 
of river Eden, near Rockcliffe ; Deschampsia flexuosa, Trin., very abundant about the edges of 
the Scaleby and other northern peat mosses ; Avena pratensis, L., limestone rocks near Ashgill 
Force, Alston ; Cryptogramma crispa, R. Br., very luxuriant on Cross Fell ; Phegopteris Dryop- 
teris, Fee., Geltside woods, near Brampton ; Botrychium Lunaria, Sw., < fields ’twixt! Glassenby 
and Gamelsby,’ Bishop Nicolson, 1690; Equisetum maximum, Lam., luxuriant in woods and 
hedgerows by the river Cambeck ; E£. variegatum, Schleich., on rocks by river Irthing near 
Gilsland Spa; Selaginella selaginoides, Gray, limestone of High Mains and Windy Brow, 
Alston. 
List of plants of more or less rarity to be found in Division IV. being the most northern 
portion of the county, the botany of which has been less carefully investigated than the 
remaining divisions, principally owing to the lack of resident students of the science :— 
RanuncuLACcE FuMaRIACEE 
Thalictrum collinum, Wallr. Neckeria lutea, Scop. 
— flavum, L. 
Ranunculus fluitans, Lam. CruciFEr& 
— sardous, Crantz Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. 
Trollius europzus, L. Nasturtium palustre, DC. 
Aquilegia vulgaris, L. Arabis hirsuta, Scop. 
Aconitum Napellus, L. Draba muralis, L. 
Beneeniwex Cardamine amara, L. 
Cochlearia alpina, H. C. Wats. 
Berberis vulgaris, L. ; 
Bre — Armoracia, L. 
NyMru maces Lepidium latifolium, L. 
Nymphea lutea, L. Thlaspi alpestre, L. 
PapavERACE Teesdalia nudicaulis, R. Br. 
Papaver Argemone, L, Raphanus Raphanistrum, L. 
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