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district, much might be said. The spring and early 

 summer carpet of buttercups, daisies, and cowslips, mingled 

 with the meadow loving orchids — O. Morio, in many shades, 

 and 0. ustulata — afford visions of beauty that cannot be sur- 

 passed anywhere else. 



Finally, a few remarks may be added on the remaining 

 area, the Chalk Wolds, which, in their turn, have another 

 and quite characteristic group. The beech, to the North of 

 Yorkshire, always a cultivated tree, is most probably here 

 quite native, and exceedingly fine are the woods of the 

 same, which are scattered over and frequently top the wolds. 

 Underneath the beech in several places grows the only 

 ericaceous plant on the wolds, the yellow bird's nest, a 

 pale bleached looking parasite (Hypopitys) of extreme interest 

 to the biologist and microscopist. The deadly night shade 

 (Atropa belladonna), the beautiful and uncommon bee orchis 

 (Ophvys apifera), Orchis pyramidalis, Campanula glomevata, 

 drop wort spiraea (Spiraa Filipendula), and many others of 

 equal interest are also characteristic of the chalk. 



Such is a sample of the vegetal productions of our little 

 known corner of England. A very small selection truly, 

 of the one thousand and thirty odd flowering plants and 

 ferns that are to found recorded in the writer's " Flora 

 of the East Riding of Yorkshire," but sufficient, we submit, 

 to show that the opening statement of this chapter is unfair 

 and ill-conceived. On the contrary 



" Our life, exempt from public haunt, 

 Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

 Sermons in stones, and good in everything." 



