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WINDERMERE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.
The banks of Windermere afford many objects of interest to
the lover of British wild flowers; so numerous and various,
indeed, are the more or less rare plants to be found in the
lake itself,- in the mountain tarns, streams, woods and
bogs, and on the fells and heath, that it is difficult to
give a satisfactory account of them in the space of a short
chapter. A general description of the Flora of the district
may, however, be of some use to the tourist who, in passing
through the country, wishes to secure anything which may be
worthy of a place in his herbarium or garden. The writer
proposes to enumerate the least common plants which have
been found within about three miles of the lake,
occasionally not icing objects of peculiar interest which
are found at a greater distance.
Of the order Ranunculaceae, Thalictrum flavum is not
uncommon about the margin of the lake; T. minus is also
found; the beautiful globe-flower Trollius europoeus is
abundant in various situations; Helleborus virdis occurs in
two situations near Windermere terminus, and H. foetidus
grows near the
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