THE PHYTOLOGIST. 



No. XL. 



SEPTEMBER, MDCCCXLIV. 



Price Is. 



Art. CCXXXIII. — Notes of a Botanical Ramble in Yorkshire, 8fc. 

 in the Summer of 1844. Communicated by James Backhouse, 



JUN. 



On the 28th of 6th Month (June), our party, consisting of John 

 Tatham jun., of Settle, James Backhouse, James Backhouse jun., and 

 Silvanus Thompson, of York, and G. S. Gibson, of Saffron Walden, 

 left York for Darlington ; and thence proceeded by way of Bishop 

 Auckland, to Crook, where we left the railway, and took the road for 

 Wolsiugham, distant about six miles, up the valley of the Wear. On 

 the wooded banks of the river we found Rosa villosa, Myrrhis odorata, 

 Arenaria venia, Geranium sylvaticum, Salix nitens and Stellaria ne- 

 morum. These plants, with the exception of the two latter, were 

 frequently met with in subsequent parts of our excursion ; and they 

 may be considered common plants in this district. We were struck 

 with the large quantity of Myrrhis odorata ; and we found it so often 

 in places remote from cultivation, that we could not doubt its being 

 indigenous, though supposed by many botanists to be an introduced 

 plant. 



Leaving the main river, we turned up one of its southern branches, 

 the Bollihope, in order to visit Bishopley Crags, a series of limestone 

 cliffs between which the river forces its way. Here we saw Hiera- 

 cium murorum {Bahington), Crepis paludosa. Campanula latifolia, 

 Asplenium viride, Myosotis sylvatica, Festuca calamaria, &c. ; these 

 also, with the exception of the last, are not uncommon plants in 

 Teesdale. 



On the moor above the Bollihope, we observed Festuca rubra, F. 

 oviua, y. tenuifolia, Viola lutea var. amoena, Empetrum nigrum, My- 

 osotis repens &c. ; and on Middleton Fell, Saxifraga stellaris, Rubus 

 Chamaemorus, Carex intermedia, Eriophorum vaginatum, &c. By 

 keeping too far to the south of the ridge separating Weai-dale from 

 Teesdale, we had to ascend several steep hills covered with ling, and 

 cross the intervening valleys, which, at the end of a long day's jour- 

 ney, was very fatiguing. After a walk of about twenty-seven miles, 

 we arrived late in the evening at the High Force Inn. The country 



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