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SOME LAKELAND HOST-PLANTS AND PARASITES. 



Rev, HILDERIC FRIEND, 



Author of ' Flowers and Flower Lore,' Chichester. 



It is now upwards of a decade since I first began the study of 

 Lakeland micro-fungi. During - that period I have examined many 

 hundreds of specimens collected by numerous botanists, besides 

 having worked many parts of the district carefully in person, 

 and the following notes are the partial outcome of my extensive 

 observation. Had it been possible I would gladly have included 

 in this list of localities the records of the late Dr. Carlyle, of 

 Carlisle. For many years he had diligently collected the fungi 

 which grow around the Border City, and he had a large list of 

 locai habitats, but the records are not at my command, except 

 such as I was able to make during the three years of my 

 residence in Carlisle, when we frequently went fungus hunting 

 together, or exchanged notes on species and habitats. 



Many methods of cataloguing the leaf parasites have been 

 adopted, but so far as I am aware no English records have 

 been made on the following lines. Often in my amateur days 

 as a collector did I wish for a list of host plants with the names 

 of the parasites which infested them, and many a time have 

 I formed the purpose to issue such a catalogue for the British 

 Flora. The work, however, like many others, is still potential 

 only, and will probably never pass, in its entirety, beyond that 

 mood. The list which I now submit indicates the lines on which 

 I should proceed, and may, perhaps, be the means of helping 

 towards the realisation of the end I have so long had in view. 

 As I have entered no names except such as I can guarantee, no 

 authorities are quoted. I may, however, state that I have 

 incorporated the records made by Mr. Waddell and Mr. Atkinson 

 in the 'Westmorland Natural History Record,' I., pp.6i, 90, as 

 I have had an opportunity, either of seeing the critical species, 

 or verifying the records during my visits to the localities (Kendal 

 and Bowness). What 1 did not personally collect were chiefly 

 submitted to me by Dr. Arminson, of Lytham ; Miss Ripley and 

 Mr. Wyatt, of Lancaster ; Mr. Thomson, of Carlisle ; Rev. 

 C. H. Waddell, of Kendal, and other personal friends. 



I give first the name of the host plant, arranged in the usual 

 order, then the name or names of the parasites with which they 

 may be affected, following the nomenclature of Plowrig'ht in his 

 'British Uredineaj and Ustilagineae.' The parasites named are 

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