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Glaisdale Ridge (lower end). Nardus Moor. 

 Freeborough Skirt (east of the hill). Molinietum 



(Flying Bent) on large scale. 

 Bloworth Beck. Extensive Junceta. 

 Easington and Girrick Moors. Junceta and wet 



Calluna Moors with Molinia varia. 

 Cold Moor. Bilberry Slopes. 

 Stockdale. Woodland Vegetation and Bilberry 



Slopes. 

 Cranimoor. Bilberry Slopes. 



Besides the above, notes were taken of the Bilberry and 

 Bracken Slopes in Westerdale, Danby Dale, and Baysdale. 

 A hitherto undetected feature was the difference to be ob- 

 served in slopes facing north and south respectively ; the 

 former being almost invariably wetter with Junceta and much 

 Bilberry ; the latter being much drier and more dominated 

 by Bracken and Calluna. Observations. were also made on 

 the plant life of thick peaty moors other than Eriophoreta. 

 No Sweet Gale was found within the areas investigated, a 

 circumstance confirmatory of its restriction to the south 

 eastern moorland region probably to the south east of a line 

 drawn from the north of Robin Hood's Bay to the village of 

 Hutton-le-Hole. 



Peat Beds. 



Several Peat Beds have been examined with special refer- 

 ence as to their containing the remains of trees with results 

 confirming previous conclusions, viz. : — that the higher 

 moors were never forest or woodland, and that the slopes and 

 slacks were formerly clothed with Birch and Oak. The 

 following are the peat deposits in question : — 



Slopes of Kempswithen. Trees, Altitude, 775 feet. 

 North of Danby Beacon. Trees, Altitude, 900 feet. 

 Pike Hill Moss. No trees, Altitude, 1,050 feet (see 



illustration). 

 Stony Ridge. No trees, Altitude, 1,400 feet. 

 Eastern Head of Farndale. Trees, Altitude, 



1,200 feet. 

 Seavy Hill (near Trough House). No trees, Altitude, 



1,390 feet. 

 The Swang, St. Helena, Danby Dale (on ledge on 

 side of valley). Trees, Altitude, 1,000 feet (see 

 illustration). 



