328 J. GILBERT BAKER : CUMBERLAND BOTANY. 



Rosacese. — Primus spinosa, everywhere common in woods and 

 thickets. P. Avium, banks of the stream below Naworth Castle. 

 P. Padus, everywhere common in woods and hedges, reaching the 

 size of a tree 30 feet high, with a naked trunk, on the banks of the 

 stream below Gilsland church. Spircea Ulmaria, common. Agri- 

 mojiia Eupatoria, Combe Crags and by the Irthing near the Popping 

 Stone. Sanguisorba officinalis and Poterium Sanguisorba, north bank 

 of the Irthing beneath Burdoswald. Alchemilla arvensis, sandy fields 

 over Talkin Tarn. A. vulgaris, common. Potentilla Tormentilla, 

 common on the moors. P. Fragariastrum, reptans, and anserina. 

 Comarum palustre, moory bogs. Fragaria vesca, common. Rubus 

 Idceus, universal in woods, thickets, and hedges. No suberect Rubus 

 seen. R. affinis Bab. non W. & N., common about Brampton and 

 less frequent higher up the valley at Low Row and Nether Denton ; 

 a form with leaves densely hairy below at Over Denton. R. rhamni- 

 folius, once seen, near the Irthing above Naworth Bridge. R. villi- 

 caulis, once seen, at Denton. R. mucronatus, once seen, at Burdoswald. 

 R. umbrosus, everywhere common in thickets and on the edge of the 

 moors. R. Radula, Red Beck and road-side near Nether Denton. 

 R. infestus, frequent in hedges and thickets from Gilsland all down 

 the valley to Brampton. R. pallidas, the universal bramble of the 

 woods, from Gilsland all down the valley to Brampton : very plentiful 

 in the Naworth woods. R. corylifolius, frequent, especially about 

 Naworth and Lanercost. R. ccesius, woods and hedges at Burdoswald 

 and Denton, all the robust variety agrestis W. & N. Rosa mollissima, 

 abundant in the woods and hedges, very conspicuous in September 

 with its bright red drooping globes of fruit ; very fine near the 

 railway crossing at Over Denton and by the Irthing beneath Burdos- 

 wald. R. tomentosa, frequent. Var. scabriuscula, by the Irthing 

 beneath Burdoswald. R. rubiginosa, apparently wild on the north 

 side of the Irthing beneath Burdoswald. R. canina, common ; many 

 curious forms of the subcristatae, including subcristata, coriifolia, 

 Watsoni, and marginata ; a form of subcristata with glaucous leaves, 

 hispid peduncles, and glandular sepals, in hedges at Over Denton. 

 Cratcsgus jnonogyjia, everywhere common in woods and thickets. 

 Var. laciuiata, by the Irthing at Lanercost. Pyrus Mains var. acerba 

 and P. Aucuparia, both common in the native woods. 



Onagraceae. — Epilobium hirsutum, seen only once, on the banks 

 of the stream below Naworth Castle. E. parviflorum, obscurum, and 

 montanum, common. E. palustre, rills on Spade-adam waste. 

 Circcza lutetiana, frequent in woods. 



Haloragiaceae. — Myriophyllum alter Jiiflorum, Talkin Tarn. Calli- 

 triche stagnalis, runnels and ponds, frequent. 



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