104 BOTANT. 



came to her aid, chased away her enemies and thus delivered her. This 

 lovely little flower said " Linnaeus is her vegetable prototype. Scarcely any 

 painter could so happily imitate the beauty of a fine female complexion, 

 still less couM any artificial colour upon the face bear any comparison with 

 this lovely blossom, I find it always fixed upon some turfy hillock amid 

 the swamps, and its roots bathed by their waters." " In these marshy and 

 solitary places, toads and venomous reptiles abound, the summer comes like 

 Perseus, and drying up the waters which inundate the plant, chase away 

 all her aquatic enemies, then the flower which had before drooped, pensively 

 raises her head displaying her beauties to the sun." 

 Cat's foot, Antennaria Dioicum, 



Ivy crowfoot, Eanunculus hederacea. 

 Sneezewort, Achillea Ptarmica, 



Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, 



foot of damp rocks. 

 Furze, Ulex Namis, 



Cowberry, Vacciniiuu Vitis idcea 



Spotted Hand Orchis, Orchis Maculata, 

 Fragrant Orchis, Gymnadenia Conopsca, 



About a mile and a half below Ogden in the Wheatley valley is the 

 station for 

 Mimulus, Mimulus luteiis, June, 



Naturalized on the margins of streams and in boggy places. A native 

 of America. 

 Water cress. Nasturtium Officinalis, July, Introduced into the 



Wheatley valley from Luddenden, 

 Yellow cress, Nasturtium Sylvestre, June, Banks of rivers & streams. 

 Burdock, Arctium majus. Waste places, 



Lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis. May, Woods. 



This flower occurs on the border of the Woodside plantation near the 

 railway-arch, and the station will in all probability be destroj-ed by the 

 railway cutting, it is the rarest wild flower in the Ovenden valley of which 

 we are aware. 



Shibden-dale having received the greatest share of our attontion over 

 any other locality in the neighbourhood, we have endeavoured to make a 

 list of its flowering plants, which (though far from being complete) we hope 

 will be interesting to the Botanical and other readers of this periodical^ 

 with a view of at some future time rendering it as complete as possible, 



