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[pro]fessed collectors [1] may aid the destructive progress
not a little, even to the total extermination of some
plants. Still, such a range of variety is found between the
littoral and alpine extremes of West Cumberland as may
fairly gratify the wishes of the true botanist.
It must be understood that these remarks, and the following
list of plants and localities, relate almost exclusively to
the Cumberland limits of the district; and that the
botanical resources of that district have been tolerably
well explored by the writer for a lengthened period. His
endeavours have also been aided by several friends (whose
names are quoted); but it is still possible that some of the
floral treasures may have been overlooked, or may yet remain
undiscovered. Those will be but few, and of course valuable
when their localities become known.
Many common plants are omitted from the list, under the
impression that what is open to every one's eye needs no
record; and numerous localities are also left out as
redundant.
Perhaps no district, of the same limited extent, furnishes a
more numerous assemblage of Cryptogamic plants;- that least
explored, but very beautiful department; and which may be
not inappropriately called winter-botany.
A great proportion of the singular system of bloom-
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[1]
Only a year or two ago, one of this class being told of the
habitat of the rare Grammitis Cetarech, went and
picked out of the wall in which it grew, with the point of a
knife, every plant! Fortunately, some seeds had been
deposited, and they have restored the treasure.
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