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 URTICACEÆ OR NETTLE ORDER.

Humulus Lupulus               Hop Urtica pilulifera             Roman nettle Parietaria officinalis        Common Wall-pellitory

SALICACEÆ OR WILLOW ORDER.

Salix argentea                Silky Sand Willow "  repens                   Dwarf Willow Myrica Gale                    Sweet Gale

IRIDACEÆ OR IRIS ORDER.

Iris Pseudacorus              Yellow water-iris

AMARYLLIDACEÆ OR THE AMYRILLIS ORDER.

Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus    Common Daffodil Galanthus nivalis             Snowdrop

ALISMACEÆ OR WATER-PLANTAIN ORDER.

Butomus umbellatus            Flowering-rush Alisma ranunculoides          Lesser Thrumwort

POTAMOGETONACEÆ OR PONDWEED ORDER.

Ruppia maritima               Sea Tasselgrass Zannichellia palustris        Common Lakeweed

ORCHIDACEÆ OR ORCHID ORDER.

Orchis morio                  Green-winged Orchis "  pyramidalis             Pyramidal      " Epipactis latifolia           Broad-leaved Helleborine "  palustris               Marsh          "

JUNCACEÆ OR RUSH ORDER.

Juncus effesus                Soft Rush "   filiformis              Threadrush  "    squarrosus              Heathrush Narthecium ossifragrum        Bog Asphodel

ARACEÆ OR ARUM ORDER.

Lenna minor                   Lesser Duckweed

CRONTIACEÆ OR SWEET-FLAG ORDER.

Acorus Calamus                Sweet-flag

CYPERACEÆ OR SEDGE ORDER.

Carex limosa                  Mud Sedge "  flava                    Yellow " "  arenaria                 Sea    " Eriophorum polystachyon       Broad-leaved Cotton-grass

EQUISETACEÆ OR HORSETAIL ORDER.

Equisetum arvense              Corn Horsetail "    variegatum            Variegated Horsetail

rises in the hills of Wyersdale and Bleasdale; running in a south-westerly direction and passing the towns of Garstang and Church Town, it arrives at St. Michael's, from which point its tortuous course is continued almost due west as far as Skippool. Thence winding past the