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



naturalists should have an over-Sunday gathering there, 

 by special permission of the late Mrs. Cottrell-Dormer's 

 executors and the other landowners, when important results 

 might be expected. 



Carex paludosa (77) ; acutiformis. By the Kendal Canal 

 towards Natland. 



Aira praecox (in). Seen only on slate rocks in the grounds 

 of the Crossthwaite 'Commune.' 



Avena pratensis (76). Bank over Kendal towards Bradleyfield. 



MeJica uniflora (96). One of the commoner grasses about 

 Kendal on damp banks, with Sesleria on the dry. 



Koeleria cristata (89). Turf edge near Underbarrow, not 

 plentiful. Apparently not before on record for Westmor- 

 land at all ! 



CRYPTOGAM I A. 



Ceterach (68). Kendal Castle wall. Several plants on a high 

 farmhouse wall, Underbarrow. 



Phegopteris polypodioides (76). Beech Fern. North end of 

 Park Spring Wood. Bank of lane leading from Cross- 

 thwaite ' Colony ' to Gilpin Mill. 



Asplenium Adiantum=nigrum (107). Crumbling bank of road 

 between Scarfoot and Underbarrow. 



Osmunda (89). In most of the gardens at Kendal reaved from 

 the 'moss' thickets about — where now, alas! non est. 

 This, and that, told me how they had got it ' so many ' or 

 \ so many ' years back : the noblest-looking of cryptogamic 

 ferae naturae. 



Ophioglossum (87). Adder's Tongue. Beyond Underbarrow 

 Post Office in the most singular and unexpected station. 

 It was positively rank in the half-dry lime-mud water- 

 channel by the highway side ; somewhat stunt but fruiting 

 freely — hundreds of specimens, in fact the only green thing 

 in the gutter, there ! 

 Among the Mosses I noted almost nothing that is new. 

 Ditrichtim fiexicaule in the grassy turf at Scarfoot ; Dicranum 

 scoparium near the same place ; Grimmia apocarpa, Kendal 

 Fell ; Philonotis foiitayia, Lilymere ; Neckera crispa, Kendal 

 Fell ; Anomodon viticulosus, rocks by road to Scarfoot from 

 Kendal ; and Climacium de?idroides by Cunswick Tarn ; with 

 Homalothecium sericeuni abundant on walls, Hypnum molluscum 

 on banks, and H. squarrosum amid grass. Hyloco?nium tri- 

 quetrum, too, was in plenty at Scarfoot. 



Naturalist, 



