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Page 144:-
Orchis bifolia, maculata, and conopsea, one to two miles from Keswick, on the Penrith road; the last on Hartley hill, Buttermere. Epipactis latifolia, Listera ovata, and L. Nidus-Avis, under Wallow Crag.
Geranium sylvaticum, and pratense, in St. John's Vale; the same, with Campanula latifolia, Lysimachia vulgaris, and Senecio sarracenicus, in Howray near Keswick. Geranium phaeum, near Wasdale Screes. G. sanguineum, and Erodium cicutarium, near Flimby; Geranium dissectum, molle, lucidum, and robertianum, near Keswick.
The rare Pyrola secunda and the Pyrola media have been found among the rocks near Keswick, and the Pyrola minor, near Ambleside.
Impatiens Noli-me-tangere grows near Ambleside; Eupatorium cannabinum, near Low Wood Inn and in Wasdale; Bidens tripartita, near Keswick. Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis, on an island in Windermere. Anchusa sempervirens, at Bowness and Long Sleddale.
The great Burnet, Sanguisorba officinalis, common in fields. Upland Burnet, Poterium Sanguisorba, on Kirkhead near Kent's Bank, and on Kendal Fell. The Cowslip is common in calcareous soils, but rarely found among the lakes. The yellow Primrose ornaments the edges of woods and thickets. Spignel, Meum Athamanticum, on Bristow Hills near Keswick. One Berry, Paris quadrifolia, near Stock-gill Force, on the road side near Bannerigg,
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