282 Lees : Spring's Pageant i?i Westmorland and Lancashire. 



Myosotis sylvatica (45). Neither so abundant nor so frequent 

 in the copses as I had expected ; but, being- a short- 

 duration perennial, seldom occurring- en masse in a spot 

 three years in succession, it is more easily rendered scarce 

 if not extinct in a district than most other species coveted 

 for the garden border. 



Polemonium (5). In two places by the Kent, but, I believe, 

 Alien, the washed-down out-throw from some garden. I 

 saw no unsuspicious stations although — to make a dis- 

 tinction often lost sight of— many ' suspicious ' ones of 

 species native elsewhere which had established themselves 

 after, natural removal. This must be kept in mind by 

 who would understand the flora of a hill district. If the 

 Jacob's Ladder ultimately turned up, growing near the 

 head of one of the many South Westmorland dales, above 

 steadings, like it does in West Yorkshire over Grassington, 

 then the lower-land by-river sites might be admitted as 

 general proofs of indigenity and submission to dispersal 

 law. As said, ante, Myrrhis is in similar case ; yet it, too, 

 must remain a 'suspect' until found above the highest 

 sheep-fold. 



Veronica montana (89). Beck Mill, Mintdale. 



Linaria Cymbalaria* Ivy-leaved Toadflax. Wild enough 

 now, in the sense of quite at home, ineradicable and 

 spreading — a real ' colonist ' — on rocks and old walls, not 

 only of Kendal Castle, but in away-from-cottage stations. 

 Noted well nigh everywhere in the sheltered dales, with 

 Geranium lucidum, Saxifraga tridactylites for mates ; even 

 at Underbarrow with Ceterach, the black Trichomanes and 

 Veronica Chamcedrys, and with Parietaria on Kendal Castle; 

 in all verity, after a hundred years of acclimatisation, as 

 stickfast as any of them. One likes to see a charming alien 

 hold its own in this way — to point a moral and adorn a vale. 



Pedicularis palustris (no). By Cunswick Tarn. 



[Lathrasa. Not seen; though looked out for.] 



Lamiutn incisum (76). Bank near Haugh's Bridge. 



Lamium maculatum.* Waysides, Crossthwaite, where only 

 did I see L. album, in the hedges. 



Primula farinosa. About Lilymere and Bendrigg. 



Plantago lanceolata (112) var. variegata. A pretty striped 

 form, a cream blade with three green stripes where ribs 

 are, found wild by Mr. Whitwell, of the Serpentine Cottage, 

 was shown to me in his garden. When multiplied sufficiently 



Naturalist, 



