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NOTES on FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Callitriche autumnalis in Lake Lancashire: a Correction.— 



Mr. Martindale, of Staveley, Kendal, writes me that the station I gave in 

 the December f Naturalist,' p. 362, for Callitriche autumnalis is not in Lake 

 Lancashire but in Westmorland. I am very sorry to have led you to publish 

 this error, but I certainly took it lor Lake Lancashire. — A. Bennett, 143, 

 Hig-h Street, Croydon, 5th December 1901. 



This makes for geographical precision, but makes no difference to topo- 

 graphical botany, inasmuch as Westmorland and Lake Lancashire are 

 combined to form Y.C. 69. —Ed. Xat. 



Silver-leaved Holly at Barrow-in-Furness. — Early in' 1900 a Holly 

 tree (Ilex aquifolium), about six feet high, flowered profusely in my front 

 garden, and during the summer the berries went through four of the 

 prismatic tints in reverse order, viz., green, yellow, orange, and red. 

 On 28th September 1900 the berries were assuming- a red colour. About 

 Christmas 1900, as the tree is planted near my front gate, some knaves 

 were attacted by the large quantity of berries and stripped the branches off 

 one side of the tree. In the year 1901 the tree did not flower and made 

 little new wood. The same berries which grew during the summer of 1900 

 are still (18th January 1902) on the tree, and most of them are as brilliant in 

 colour now as they were at Christmas 1900. About a dozen to a score of 

 berries still remain on man}' of the small branches. In some cases the 

 berries have withered and the small branches on which they grew have died. 

 Is this a common occurrence? I enclose a small branch for inspection. — 

 Harper Gaythorpe, ClaVerton, Prospect Road, Barrow-in-Furness, 18th 

 January 1902. 



Botanical Finds near Carlisle in 1901.— The following is a list of 

 some of the plants found during the summer of 1901 in the neighbourhood 

 of Carlisle : — 



At Monkhill Lough, Potamogeton gramineus var. obtusifolius, Zanni- 

 chellia palustris, Alisma ranunculoides, Scirpus acicularis, Scirpus lacustris. 

 Near Warwick, Botrychium Lunaria. 



At Upperby <Brick-Ponds, and at the old canal bed, Kirkandrews-on- 

 Eden, Ranunculus sceleratus. 



At Silloth, Trifolium filifdfme, Pastinaca sativa, Rumcx pulcher, Gypso- 

 phila porrigens (this species was also found near Carlisle in a different 

 locality from that recorded for 1900). 



At Dalston, on a piece of waste ground near the' railway station, 

 Verbascam thapsus, Antirrhinum niajus, Valerianella dentata, Dipsacus 

 sylvestris. 



Near Rockcliffe, Rumex aquaticus. 

 0 Right bank of Eden, opposite Beaumont, Gilia capitata, Neslia panicu- 

 Tata. 



Near Grinsdale, Parietaria officinalis, Ranuncuhts arvensis, Phacelia 

 tanacetifolia, Echinospcrmum lappuld, Lythrum Grcefferis Fenore. 



Near Carlisle, Thalictrum fnajus, Pyrus communis, Carduus nutans, 

 Ceutaurea calcitrapa, Borago officinalis, Lithospermum arvense, Polygonum 

 minus; Lepidium ruderale , Diplotaxis muralis, Erysimum cheiranthoides , 

 Cochlearia officinalis, Camel ina sativa, Caucalis daucoides, Caucalis laiifolia, 

 Galium tricbrne (found also at Skinburness), Linum usitatissimum , Plantago 

 psyllium, Anagallis ccerulea (plentiful), Claytonia perfoliata, Cephalaria 

 syriaca, Lathyrus octuus DC., Setaria viridis, Panicum glaucum , Hordeum 

 niarUimum , Hordeum jubatum, Lolium temulentum, Bromus unioloides. 

 ' It should be mentioned with reference to the aliens in the above list that 

 some of them were represented only by. single specimens. 



The most interesting find of the season was the discover}- of Ranunculus 

 reptans by Mr. T. S. Johnstone (recorded in a previous number of 'The 

 Naturalist') on the left bank of the Eden, quite close to Carlisle. Mr. 

 Johnstone also found Lepidium virginicum and Xahthium spinosum on the 

 ballast heaps at Silloth.— W. Thomson, Carlisle, November 1901. 



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