THE PHYTOLOGIST. 



No. XLI. 



OCTOBER, MDCCCXLIV. 



PllICE Is. 



Art. CCXXXVII. — Notes of a Botanical Ramble in YorksJiire S^c. 

 in the Summer of 1844. Communicated by James Backhouse, 

 Jun. 



(Continued from p. 1069). 



On the 4tli of 7th Month we finally quitted our quarters at the High 

 Force, and sending our luggage round by the turnpike road, we 

 crossed the moors separating Teesdale from the valley of the Lune. 

 Crossing the foot-bridge below the fall, we took a southerly direction. 

 Near a farm house just above the bridge, we gathered a few specimens 

 of Peucedanum Ostruthium. For several miles we walked over high 

 moor-land, presenting little variety : we noticed Sedum villosum, Cal- 

 tha palustris, |3. minor, and Potamogeton plantagineus. In the bed 

 of a stream near the head of Lunedale, we found Galium pusillum, 

 which we have not yet noticed in Teesdale. On reaching the road 

 from Middleton to Brough, we followed it for several miles, till we 

 came to the head of Swindale, a precipitous glen beautifully wooded 

 on both sides. Having heard that Asarum europium had been found 

 in this neighbourhood, several years ago, we were very desirous of 

 meeting with it, but our time was so limited, and the woods were so 

 extensive, that we soon saw there was little probability of our finding 

 it. We made our way along the bottom, over the rough rocky bed of 

 a mountain torrent, and were repaid for our toil by discovering ano- 

 ther locality for Equisetum umbrosum, the more interesting as it was 

 in another county (Westmoreland). We also noticed Hieraciura mu- 

 rorum and Lawsoni, and in the lower part of the glen we gathered 

 Equisetum hyemale and Epilobium an gusti folium, both of which were 

 very abundant. Regaining the high road we passed through the lit- 

 tle town of Brough, which is situated near the foot of a ragged lime- 

 stone scar, and took the road for Kirkby Stephen, where we stopped 

 that night. 



The following morning we took the Hawes road, and entered the 

 deep glen of Mallerstang, which is bounded on each side by lofty hills 

 attaining to 2330 feet in height. Soon after leaving Kirkby Stephen, 

 we found Stachys ambigua in small quantity. From the length of the 

 journey before us, we had not time to examine the craggy sides of the 



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