1 82 Greenfield. 



Lycopodiums that now exist with us, only that everything 

 was immensely large and luxuriant. As for the earthy de- 

 posits that covered all up, they are manifestly the sediment 

 of great seas during the lapse of unfathomable ages.* 



Starting by the London and North-western line via 

 Staleybridge to Huddersfield, we presently come to 

 Mossley, and are then in the midst of the mountains. 

 A fine walk hence is to Chew Brook. The next station 

 beyond Mossley is GREENFIELD, whence we may initiate 

 another up to the celebrated mountain-wilderness called 

 " Seal-Bark," first ascending the hill, which has a deep 

 valley upon the right, and Greenfield-brook hastening 

 along the bottom, on its way to join the Tame, the little 

 river that waters Haughton Dale, and flows past Arden 

 Hall. The slopes are capital places for mountain botan- 

 ising, there being not only the accustomed whortleberry 

 and crowberry, Em'petrum ni'grum, but abundance of 

 that pretty little English " everlasting" called Anten- 

 na' ria dioi'ca, with pink blossoms, and in the boggy 

 ground near the pastures, Hyper 'icum Elo'des. Less 

 than half an hour's moderate progress from the station 



* By the kindness of Mr John Plant, of the Peel Park Museum, 

 I am enabled to give the names of the principal fossil vegetables of 

 the Manchester coal-measures, or such as may be found upon the 

 waste-heaps and in the grit-quarries. They include species of Lepi- 

 dodendron, and of its fruit, called Lepidostrobus ; Sigillaria; the roots 

 of the latter, called Stigmaria ; Catamites, and their fruit ; Ulo- 

 dendron; Poacites ; Sphenophyllum ; Asterophyllites ; Neuropteris ; 

 Sphenopteris ; Pecopteris; and Cyc lopteris. Specimens of all of these 

 may be seen at Peel Park, and in the museum of the Manchester 

 Geological Society. 



