278 Lees : Spring's Pageant in Westmorland and Lancashire. 



the compass. I made seven, in differing- directions, during- my 

 stay, none of them exceeding- a sixteen miles ' out and home ' 

 round, each one further fixing- the impression of a most diversified 

 flora. Nowhere in England can the contrast between slate-rock 

 and limestone vegetation be better studied by reason of juxta- 

 position. As a matter of course little specific record was added 

 to Mr. Baker's compact and masterly ' Flora of the English 

 Lake District.' Fifteen years' work by resident botanists since 

 its publication have, I understand, only added four species to 

 the Westmorland county flora. 



As the list which follows is only a discursive and personal 

 one, embodying little beyond what mine own eyes saw, and 

 including no ' critical ' species, the authorities for the specific 

 names need not be given. Nearly all the stations come within 

 Martindale's district 2 : a very few are in ' 3 '—the Lune basin, 

 and where so the fact is noted in the text. The numerals in 

 parentheses after the names merely give the census number for 

 Great Britain from the London Catalogue (9th ed.) — the order 

 and nomenclature being followed. 



Ranunculus penicillatus (77). What I so call, a drawn out 

 floating-leafless state of R. peltatus, is common in the Kent 

 where less rapid from a mile above Kendal downwards. 

 What I could gather was not R. fluitans Lam. ; though 

 from its bushy collapsing tassels some botanists might con- 

 sider it the puzzling pseiido-flaitans of Hiern's monograph. 



Trollius europwus (63). By the rivers Mint and Sprint above 

 Kendal, and down-carried to Haugh's Bridge under Natland. 



\Paeonia. Among the allotment gardeners I was surprised to 

 hear Paeonies (single and double) called ' Magpies ' — as at 

 Horsforth and Harewood, near Leeds. I don't know the 

 origin of the name, unless it be indicative of the showy, 

 dandy-like contrast foliage and flower, or anthers and petals 

 furnish when in bloom.] 



Nymphsea lutea (91). In Cunswick Tarn. 



Castalia speciosa (88). Mrs. Cottrell-Dormer's Lily Mere, 

 which drains into the Peasey beck joining the Beetha, near 

 Whasset, and thence flowing by Dallam Tower into the 

 Kent estuary. 



Meconopsis cambrica (14). Laneside, Blakebank, near Cross- 

 thwaite, Gilpin basin ; but I have little faith- in the indigenity 

 of it here — indeed I never saw an unsuspectable station in 

 Westmorland. I call it an acclimatised colonist, originally 

 of garden origin, but otherwise on quite the same footing 



Naturalist, 



