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fine, and most luxuriant. All the road sides and ditches 

 near Middleton were quite overgrown with this handsome 

 plant, and several were gathered pure white. 



Another plant was very ahundant in this district of 

 Teesdale, viz.. Primula farinosa. It is one of the commonest 

 plants of the district. It may be mentioned also that 

 Poterium officinale was very common in most of the fields 

 in this part of Teesdale. 



In the woods around Middleton was gathered Stachys 

 Betonica. 



The members of the Club who had not previously visited 

 this interesting district were particularly struck with seeing 

 so many Alpine plants growing so low down, as at Winch 

 Bridge, only 856 feet above the sea-level, plants that are 

 only met with in Scotland high upon the mountains, such 

 as Ba7'tsia alpi7ia, which in Teesdale grows abundantly in 

 all the meadows, whereas in Scotland it is only found spar- 

 ingly on alpine ledges ; so too with Tojieldia palusiris and 

 some others. 



The next day, Tuesday 29th July, our excursion was 

 to Widdybank Fell and Falcon Glints. After breakfast 

 we drove in a waggonette about 8 miles, passing on our 

 way the High Force, a beautiful waterfall, where the 

 River Tees makes a leap of 69 feet. We did not pause to 

 examine the rocks and woods around this waterfall, under- 

 standing that the grounds were strictly private. We took 

 our carriage as far as Langdon Beck, a small stream which 

 after its union with Harvvood Beck runs into the Tees. 

 Shortly after leaving our waggonette we came on a bank 

 literally covered with Peucedanum OsfrutMum, commonly 

 called Masterwort — an umbelliferous plant formerly much 

 cultivated for its medicinal properties. It was, however, near 

 a farm-house, and had evidently been introduced, although 

 quite naturalised. This plant is not indigenous to Britain; 

 it is a native of mountain pastures in Central Europe. 



Our course next lay along the Langdon Beck, and after 

 crossing the Harwood Beck we entered on the marshy 

 ground at the north-east of Widdybank Fell. Here and on 

 our way to the summit we gathered the following plants : — 

 Scahiosa Columbaria, Bartsia aljnna, Prinuda farinosa, 

 Polygonum viviparum, Listera ovata and cordata, Tofieldia 



