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the people there call it, is a lofty rock forming the summit or 

 crest of the hill. Queer names Englanders employ ! there is a 

 deep hollow near Dudley, barely a mile from the town, which 

 is called the Wren's Nest, The summit of the Foalfoot is called 

 " a vast expanse of table-land, not much less than a mile in cir- 

 cumference." When we were there, our companion told us that 

 it had been a race-course ; but the single round made, in racing 

 phrase, only a short heat. 



About the Ribble, which is hereabout but a tiny brook, the 

 botanists collected T7'ollius europmis, Primula farinosa, one of 

 the most elegant of the Primrose tribe ; also Pinguicula vulgaris, 

 the marsh Valerian ; Saxifraga granulata, and S. tridactylites. 



A few weeks in summer might be very pleasantly and profit- 

 ably passed in rambling among these Yorkshire gills, climbing 

 the hills, enjoying the extensive prospects, and now and then 

 plucking a plant and floweret as a memento of the place and 

 period. It is not agreeable to be on Ingleborough, or even at its 

 foot, when the snow covers and conceals every blade of grass, 

 every hedge, and every tree. May is an uncertain month ; bitter 

 cold has been the weather this season, 1861. The end of July, 

 or the beginning of August, is the botanical season for Ingle- 

 borough ; and for fine weather's sake, so conducive to personal 

 enjoyment of fine scenery, and irrespective of herborizing pur- 

 poses, we should prefer the end of August, or the beginning of 

 September, when the temperature is more equable, and the at- 

 mospheric changes less sudden and severe. We wish our lively 

 chatty tourists better weather the next time they go to Ingle- 

 borough ; and like John Gilpin's poetic historian, we wish that 

 " when they next set out to ivalk, may we be there to see." 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 

 Cumbrian Botany. 



Having occasionally wandered over the interesting district so correctly 

 described by Mr. Edwin Green in your March number of the present 

 year, I feel some pleasure in being able to add a few names of plants by 

 no means common here, to be found within the limits he points out ; and 

 which appear to have escaped his notice. 



Euphorbia portlundica grows sparingly along the Drigg shore, between 

 the ordinary high-water mark and the high spring-tide mark ; and E. I'a- 



