76 Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



Vaccinium ridge 



Eriophorum moor ; 



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Calluna heath '>— Vaccinium edge 



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Festuca grass-heath / Molinia grass-heath ^Derelict pasture 



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Woodland Farmland 



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From the edge of the moorland plateau down to sea-level the woods 

 occur^ the oak being the domuiant tree throughout. Only three types 

 of wood are readily distinguished; oak, mixed Iowland (with beech), and 

 pine, and only the first of these is dealt with in the present paper. Three 

 types can again be distinguished: l.Clough thicket or wood is deve- 

 loped in the gorges, formed by the moorland waters in the preclpitous 

 edge of the Millstone Grit; it consists of trees or shrubs, not very den- 

 sely crowded together. but forming a loose thicket or scrub. In places 

 it may be swampy and contain a considerable number of moisture-loving 

 plants. 2. The Upland Oak Wood occupies dry rocky slopes defi- 

 cient in humus on the Millstone Grit Area; the oak is usually dominant, 

 but may in places be replaced by birch. 3. TheLowland oak woods 

 are common in the wider Valleys and in lower altitudes. The sycamore 

 and wycheim are frequently as abundant as the oak here. This type of 

 wood is best developed in the Dearne district around Barnsley; it fre- 

 quents damp, shaly places, rieh in humus and hence the associated flora 

 is abundant. 



The Farmland or Area o? Cultivation presents two distinct types of Vege- 

 tation, uncultivated and cultivated lands. Amongst the former are included 

 patches of land, which, never cultivated, have remained more or less primi- 

 tive, although human influences have affected them e. g. dry heaths of the 

 Millstone Grit Area, the Goal Measure Common (Brierley Common) and 

 the Permian Common (Hook Moor). The aquatic and marsh Vegetation 

 of the lowlands is different from that of the high moorlands and is typi- 

 cally developed in the stagnant or slow-moving waters on the Goal 

 Measures. — A large proportion of the farm-land is now left permanently 

 as grass. F. E. Fritsch. 



Sprague, J. A., N e w o r N o t e w o r t h y P I a n t s. Eriostemon 

 affinis Sprague sp. nov. (The Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 Vol. XXXIII. 3rd series. 1903. No. 855. p. 307.) 



This species is closely allied in floral structure to E. myoporoides, 

 but differs in the leaves being grouped towards the ends of the branches, 

 in their more linear shape, in the smaller flowers and in the narrowing 

 of the ovary above the loculi. It has been cultivated at Kew for some 

 time as E. linearifoliiis D. C, but a re-examination of the type of the 

 latter species has confirmed Bentham's reduction of it to the genus 

 Geijera, causing the recognition of the Kew plant as new. 



F. E. Fritsch. 



