145 
Plants found in the Neighbourhood of Settle, Yorkshire, omitting 
some of the very common ones. By Joun Winvsor, F.L.S., 
F.R.C.S., ete. 
In attempting an enumeration of many of the plants growing 
near Settle, m Craven, Yorkshire, I beg leave to offer a few pre- 
liminary remarks. The appearance of the town and surround- 
ing country is one of a very striking and interesting character. 
The former lies under, as it were, a very remarkable and im- 
pending rock, called Castlebar, or Castleberg, behind which is a 
series of hills, called Highhills; and behind these, others, among 
which are Attermire Rocks and Attermire Cove, with other sin- 
gularly-formed Scars around. On the eastern side of these, winds 
along by Stockdale and the adjoining Rye-loaf Hill one of the 
roads to Malham, Gordale, Malham Tarn, ete. If the traveller 
extends his journey a few miles further, he reaches Littandale, 
with Kilnsay Cragg, Grassington, Kettlewell, etc., in one direc- 
tion, and in the other Arncliffe, Hesleden Gill, Penyghent, ete. 
Seated on Castleberg, above Settle, the spectator views im- 
mediately before him the valley of the Ribble. The bridge over 
this river is about half-way between Settle and the contiguous 
village of Giggleswick. By the latter place there is the high- 
road leading under Giggleswick Scars, by the ebbing and flowing 
well northward, towards Clapham, Ingleton, situated at the foot 
of Ingleborough, and Kirby-Lonsdale. 
The rocks, so abundant in the neighbourhood of Settle, are 
generally calcareous, but interspersed with gritstone about Gig- 
gleswick, as at Cravenbank, ete. On the higher mountains 
around, as Fountain’s Fell, Penyghent, Ingleborough, etc., there 
is, I believe, in their constituents a moderate portion of the 
schistose character, as mica-slate, etc. 
It might well be predicted that a neighbourhood so diversified 
in its aspect, and possessed of almost every variety of surface, 
would not be deficient in the number and variety of its plants; 
nor has it been indeed without a succession of botanical in- 
quirers, each of whom may have added something to the know- 
ledge previously acquired. 
Ray, in his ‘Synopsis Stirpium Britannicarum’ (the second 
edition: the one I have was published in 1696), makes not unfre- 
quent mention of this district, which he seems to have visited 
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