16 HUDDERSFiELD PLANTS. [January, 



mileSj the plants enumerated should all be found within a line 

 or imaginary ring which is less than three miles distant from the 

 town. Three miles radius will be a diameter of six miles, and, 

 according to Cocker, the area will be QxQx -7954, or about 

 twenty-eight square miles. But the distance to the localities of 

 many of the plants is at least double or triple three miles, and 

 therefore the area must be considerably above sixty square miles. 

 Longwood is called an easy walk. Longwood Edge is still further. 

 Three miles is not what a young man would call an easy walk. 

 " A stretch of four miles brings us back to Huddersfield.'^ An 

 equal distance in the other or opposite dii^ection will give a 

 diameter of eight to ten miles, and an area of between sixty and 

 seventy square miles. 



Is EUand^ famed for the urbanity of its male and female popu- 

 lation, only four miles from the market-cross, or even from the 

 modern boundaries of the present town ? Is Kirklees only four 

 miles from the town ? Are the moors where Hurtberries and 

 Cowberries grow only four miles off? 



We are informed that the following plants do not grow there, 

 and we take the author's word for this, because he surely knows 

 more about what grows there than we do : — 



" Malva sylvesti'is has not yet been found in the neighbourhood 

 of Huddersfield, so far as I am aware ; neither have Geranium 

 sylvaticum, G. pratense, and G. pusillum. There is not a single 

 plant of Lythrum Salicaria on the banks of our streams; its 

 place seems to be usurped by Valeriana officinalis. Hieracium 

 vulgatum and Carduus lanceolatus should be inserted. Centaurea 

 nigra has been shown me in a dried state, but the authority is 

 not reliable. Aira praecox you will find on reference to page 

 130. I have not yet heard of Equisetum Telmateia being found. 



" In addition to the list I can now include — Draba verna and 

 D. incana, found by Mr. William Guthrie, at Ainley; Hypericum 

 Androsmmum, Myriophyllum verticillatmn, and Salix viminalis. 



" C. C. HOBKIRK." 



After all the explanations given as above, and the additions 

 made, we do not think the Huddersfield Flora a rich one. Our 

 comparison is with the South of England, where there is a 

 greater number of species than in the middle or the north of 

 England. 



But, from personal experience of the results of botanizing, we 



