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extensive steam corn mills the following- species were noted. 

 Conspicuously abundant were examples of an alien species, 

 Ambrosia trifida, not previously seen there before 1899. A 

 workman told us that the seeds winnowed from grain imported 

 mostly from California were thrown upon the bank close to the 

 mill, as food for the small birds during winter. Three other 

 species belonging to the same order have been remarked in 

 years preceding the present, viz.: — Ambrosia mar -itima, Amar- 

 antJius alba, and A. retrofiexus. On the same bank was 

 abundance of Camelina saliva, while in smaller quantity grew 

 Medicago saliva, Potenttlla recta, and some others. Passing 

 along to the end of the mill premises, w T e found a heap of 

 decaying straw and other material, on which we saw in plenty 

 examples of Vlcta lutea (Rough-podded V etch), Delphinium Ajacis, 

 Alyssum calyclnum, Lepldlum campestre, Lactuca Scariola, Silybum 

 Marianum— the finest I ever saw — Scandtx Pecten -Veneris, 

 Cnicus arveusls var. setosus (differing in outline somewhat from 

 the specimens noted at the Derwent Tin Plate Works at 

 Workington), Asperula arvensis, Raphanus marittmus (seedling' 

 plants), and medicks of several species, also vetchlings. Nearer 

 the sea, and at the opposite side of the dock basin, Nasturtliun 

 terrestre and Neslla pantculata, the last a remarkably fine speci- 

 men. 



Passing along shore northwards to Skinburness, we found 

 in an inclosure used for the purpose of a market garden several 

 species, native as well as foreign, which avowedly derived their 

 introduction from material brought from the Silloth mill-yards 

 for manurial purposes. The species included, among others, the 

 following, viz. : — Trtfollum fraglferum, T. striatum, Lactuca 

 scariola, Galium tricorne, Herntarta hirsuta, and a singular 

 looking medic, which, when stretched at length, was found to 

 support a number of large and curious looking seed vessels, 

 resembling- nothing so much as the shells of the Helix nemoralis 

 (Banded Snail). This has since been identified as Medicago 

 scutellata , and, on the authority of Anne Pratt, is said to be 

 a native of Corsica, Sardinia, and other Mediterranean islands; 

 also Trtfollum Jilt forme, a plant which 1 had never be tore 

 gathered, and more examples of Amaranthus alba. Outside 

 and beyond the inclosures, near the beach, were growing Rosa 

 canina var. Reuteri, Rubus rhamntfoltus , and rooting deeply 

 among the drifted sand were Sea Holly and Triticum var. 

 llttorale. This completed our gathering on a most lovely summer 

 day. 31st December /goo. 



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