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Geographical Distribution of Vegetation in Yorkshire, by Dr. 

 W. Q. Smith, Yorkshire Colleye, Leeds, and C. E. Moss : Part i (from 

 the ' Geog'raphical Journal,' April 1903), 27 pa^es, 8\o., with a map and 

 9 photographs. 



This is an eminently sug'g'estive paper, which should be 

 studied carefully by all who are interested in local botanv, and 

 especially by those who are likely to write upon the subject. 

 The map relates to the southern half of the West Riding- of 

 Yorkshire and shows, by means of diflferent colours and mark- 



Walshaw Dean. Grass heath in the moorland valley of a stream. Cotton-grass 

 moors on distant heights. 



inifs, how the different classes of plant-station are distributed 

 througfh the district. They are divided primarily into four 

 g-roups, viz., (i) Moorland, (2) Transition Moorland, (3) Wood- 

 land, and (4) Farmland. Each of these is subdivided into three, 

 four, or five subordinate classes. In the present area farmland 

 with wheat, and farmland without wheat, together take up 

 three-fourths of the whole space. In the southern half of the 

 West Riding cultivation does not reach nearly so high as it 

 does in the limestone regions of North Yorkshire and South 



1903 June i. 



