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Sherardia (109). In fine mats on the bare lime-rock by the 

 road over Kendal Fell to Scar Nick. Baker gives ' culti- 

 vated fields,' but I never saw it wilder or lovelier than here, 

 in lavender patches a foot across, where its only competitors 

 were Sedum acre and Sesleria ccerulea. 



Valeriana dioica (73). Cunswick Wood and Mintdale. 



Antennaria dioica (86). In the benty turf of Bradley-field 

 Allotments with Arenatia verna. 



Chrysanthemum Parthenium* . Road banks, Underbarrow. 



Petasites officinalis (105). Meal bank, and lower down Mint. 



Crepis paludosa (62). Wet banks by the larger becks down 

 to Haugh's Bridge. 



Hieracium caesium (19). Rocks in the Mint above Black Mill, 

 probably down-brought from Bannisdale. 



Lobelia Dortmanna (38). Loughrigg and Lilymere Tarns. 



Vaccinium uliginosum (19). Sparingly, with Cranberry, on 

 Whinfell above Hollowgate. 



Pyrola minor L. (68). This does grow in Westmorland at 

 Stockghyll, seen by myself (also in the plantations near 

 Lilymere, in District 2). On the 24th June 1869 (cfr. 

 ' Science Gossip,' 1870, p. 91) I gathered only the robust 

 globe-flowered media, but on visits to Ambleside, in at least 

 two subsequent years, I found only the button-bloomed 

 minor on dripping shelves amongst the cascades. Certainly 

 both species do or did grow there. A note in Journ. Bot. 

 for March 1900 mentions Crosfield Herb, specimens of 

 minor, also from Stockghyll, gathered as far back as 1843 

 by a guide's daughter — possibly the very man who in 1869 

 informed me I was ' very fortunate ' when I showed him 

 my ?nedia, he not differentiating. Guides, alas ! assist in 

 exterminating: the Journal's note mentions a whole 'sheet' 

 of specimens. 



Vinca major.* Road-side between Scar-foot and Underbarrow. 



Vinca minor (73). In shrub-wood above the Mill Colony, 

 Crossthwaite, over a large area, and appearing 4 wild ' 

 enough now. Baker styles it 'Alien,' but surely it has as 

 much right to the rank of Denizen, as Helleborus fa fid us or 

 Inula Helenhim, better than either of which it lias made 

 good its hold of the soil. It is censussed and not italicised 

 in the last edition of the London Catalogue. 



Symphytum asperrimum.* A mile out of Kendal on the 

 Windermere road, persisting, from original cultivation — as 

 I was told. 



ukh) September i. 



