thy the attention of those who employ their leisure in botanical pursuits. Lysimachia vulgaris[1], and Cicuta virosa, on the banks of the Tyne at Low Park End; Pyrola secunda, in Ramshaw Wood; Ornithogelum luteum, and Orobranche either ramosa or minor, in Simonburn Dean; Meum athamanticum, on a hill near Throckrenton; Cholora perfoliata, at Honeycleugh Crag; and Tormentilla reptans, on the top of Great Waney House Crag. The former six of these the Editors have not been, able to re-discover, and the places where the three latter are mentioned as growing, they have, never had an opportunity to visit. They have also sought the rocks of Shewing Shields in vain for Lonicera Xylosteum, and Cistus marifolius; and the vicinity of Howdon Pans for Sonchus caeruleus; and they suspect that Crithmum maritimum has never been found near Alnmouth. Yet notwithstanding the author of the History of Northumberland may have been mistaken in some few plants, they have
- ↑ This plant, though of common occurrence in the south of England, is extremely rare in the north.
