368 Notes on Flowering Plants. 



Peponocranium ludicrum Cb. Plentiful on furze and heather 



— Haltwhistle, Ravensworth, etc. 

 Oxyptila trux Bl. Holywell Dene ; Thorneyburn ; Haltwhistle. 

 Tibellus oblongus Walck. Walltown Moss ; Whitfield. 

 Ocyale mirabilis Clk. Whitfield. 



Trochosa cinerea Fabr. Sandy places by the river — Bywell ; 



Haltwhistle. 

 Lycosa herbigrada Bl. Gibside ; Slaley. 

 Neon reticulatus Bl. Haltwhistle, fairly common. 



It will be seen that my collecting- has been confined to the 

 valley of the Tyne. More workers are greatly needed ; cannot 

 our clubs and societies do something to popularise this branch 

 of natural history ? I will gladly assist in the identification of 

 specimens. 



NOTES on FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Carex filiformis in Lancashire. — This Cdrex (C. ■ filiform is L.) is 

 recorded from Lake Lancashire by Mr. W. Matthews, in the Botanical 

 Record Club Report, pag-e 111, 1887, but the county number is printed '6c' 

 instead of 69. The locality given is 'Low end, Coniston-water, near Lake 

 Bank.' Under the name of C. Icevigctta Sin., I possess a specimen of 

 C. filiformis, gathered by Mr. G. E. Hunt, . June 1865, from ' Stalyhinslv, 

 Lancashire.' I can find no such name in my Gazetteers. Perhaps some 

 reader can kindly supply the information as to which vice-county of 

 Lancashire this is in ?— Arthur Bennett, Croydon, iSth October 1901. 



Peucedanum palustre in Lake Lancashire. After reading Mr. 

 Bennett's interesting proof of existence (ante 267) of a North Lancashire 

 specimen of P. palustre, sent by Withering-, probably, to Winch, I wrote to 

 Mr. Bennett for a copy of the label. This he has kindly sent me. From 

 the copy below it will be seen that Hall sent the roots of this and probably 

 others to his friends, and so aided its extirpation. Label : ' Sent by Mr. 

 Hall, from Naston, near Cartmell, Lancashire, where it grows wild. The 

 root he sent was cultivated at Perry Hill, July 10 1785.' 



The preface to the second edition of Withering- is dated Aug-ust 1787, 

 and two volumes were issued in that year. In Vol. I., p. 282, is the record 

 of the species: — 'Found in 1779 or 1780 by Mr. Seatle, at Cannon Winder, 

 near Flookburgh, Lancashire, in the ditches near the sand side, not very 

 plentiful; and I have since found it round the sides of Ayside Tarn, three 

 miles north of Cartmell — Mr. Hall. Brought to. me and Mr. Crowe, when in 

 Lancashire in 1781, by the Rev. Mr. Jackson — Mr. Woodward.' Now as 

 to the truth of the assertion on the label. There is no place called Naston 

 in North Lancashire. What was meant is Newton-in-Cartmel, where Hall 

 was born in 1756, and died 16th May 1815. Cannon Winder is a house on 

 the shore. Newton a village high up, beyond Grange, with, so far as 

 I know, not even a village pond to make an imitation marsh, but it is some 

 years since I was there. It is a pity that neither Withering or Stokes 

 mentioned the existence of the specimen, or perhaps specimens, distributed 

 by Hall. So far as I know Seatle is forgotten. Jackson died not long- 

 after as Vicar of Ulverston. Crowe and Woodward no doubt left herbaria; 

 have they been examined for Peucedanum palustre? I sought for the plant 

 at Ayside in vain some years ago. — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, 23rd Sept. 1901. 



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