18 ON THE GORMiRE EPiLOBiuM. [January, 



Polystichum aculeatum, j3, lobatum. (Winskill Wood^ Mr. John 

 Tatham.) I have several specimens which I had previously 

 collected near Settle^ some approaching to^ if not quite^ Po- 

 lystichum angulare. 



Cystojiteris fragilis. Not uncommon on walls, etc. near Settle. 



Cystopteris fragilis, var. 7, C. angustata (Sm.). (Catterick Force, 

 Mr. J. Tatham.) 



Athyrium Filix-foemina. Lodge Gill. Wood below Cavehole. 

 Crags, etc. 



Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum. Kendal's Gill, Giggleswick. Wall 

 on the right-hand side of Ingleton Brow. 



Asplenium Trichomanes. On walls at Langcliffe, etc. 



Asplenium viride. On rocks called Beacon Scar or Wordell 

 Knotts, nearly opposite Attermire Cave. Rocks on the 

 roadside between Stackhouse and Feizor. Rocks between 

 Darnbrook and Arncliffe. Also between Settle and Mal- 

 ham, and in a hole by the lead-mines near Stockdale. 



Asplenium Ruta-muraria. Wall near Giggleswick School. Kel- 

 cowe, etc. 



Scolopendrium vulgare. Kelcowe. Giggleswick Scar, etc. 



Ceterach officinarwn. In 1801 (the first year of my botanical 

 studies), I found this plant in tolerable plenty in the fissures 

 of the impending rocks a little east of Malham Tarn. 



Blechnum horeale. Kendal's Gill. Wall between Wordell and 

 Roome. About Giggleswick, etc. 



Pteris aquilina. Woods, etc. Common. 



ON THE GOEMIRE EPILOBIUM. 



By J. G. Baker. 



Below the edge of the moorlands, five miles to the east of Thirsk, 

 five hundred feet below the precipitous scars of Whitstoncliffe, is 

 a picturesque lakelet, about a mile in circumference, known by 

 the name of Gormire, which has been formed in the hollow caused 

 by a slip of the inferior oolite ; to the botanist affording a con- 

 venient repository from which to select a varied range of weeds : 

 — paludal and lacustral from the depths ; Potamogeta and Cha- 

 racece fi^om the margin ; Heliosciadium inundatum and Pilularia, 

 Mnium affine and Sphagnum contortum, Potentilla comarum and 



