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also were a fair amount of the prominent flowers of the alternate- 
leaved Golden Saxifrage. Other plants noted were Hairy 
Bitter Cress, Hemlock Water Dropwort, Water Crowfoot, 
Water Capitate Mint, Yellow Flag, Marsh Thistle, Valerian, 
and Tufted Hair Grass. The slopes of Wet Carr Wood, wherein 
the chief tree is Oak, had a dominant ground vegetation of 
Holcus-Bracken-Bluebell, with sundry patches of Wood 
Anenome, Red Campion, Wood Sanicle, and Broad-leaved 
Garlic. Near Sawley Hall was Sweet Violet, Dog Violet, 
Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Tuberous Moschatel, Cuckoo Pint and 
Toothwort. Along the road to Sawley were Purple Dead 
Nettle, Jack-by-the-Hedge, Primrose, Foxglove, and Ground 
Ivy. The Cowslip is abundant in the pastures. Honeysuckle, 
Blackthorn, and Gooseberry are conspicuous in the hedgerows. 
The Common Polypody and Wall Rue are not uncommon ferns. 
Mr. Margerison adds that he has noted over 200 species of 
flowering plants and ferns in the Sawley district. Herb Paris 
occurs below Eavestone Lake; Monkshood and Snowdrop, 
both species probably only naturalised, occur on the Sawley 
side of Spa Gill. The Lily of the Valley grows in Calf Haugh 
Wood, where the Oak and Beech Ferns have also been noted. 
The autumn Crocus is abundant in a field outside the Sawley 
Township towards Ripon, and the Daffodil occurs sparingly 
in a few fields. The Bird Cherry known locally as ‘ Heg- 
Berry,’ is not uncommon. 
BryoLtocy.—Mr. C. A. Cheetham writes :—The selected 
route through Picking Gill promised well but the results were 
disappointing, the gritstone woodland seemed comparable with 
the woods by the Strid at Bolton and mosses known there were 
to be expected. There is no lack of either mosses or hepatics, 
but greatly restricted in variety of species. Commencing at the 
head of the Gill, the ponds gave a few common types, Hypnum 
cuspidatum, Bryum pallens, B. pseudo-triquetrum, etc. The 
rocks here were dry. Duicranum fuscescens, D. scoparium, 
Campylopus flexuosus and Dicranowetsia cirrhata were found, 
these being general on the drier rocks throughout. Further 
down on the Black Dyke, a subsidiary streamlet, the moister 
rocks were better, Tetraphis pellucida, T. Browniana, Plagio- 
thecium undulatum. P. denticulatum, Leucobryum glaucum, 
Dicranum majus, etc., being added. The streamlet bed is 
dominated by hepatics and one moss, Hyocomium flagellare 
this in a varied series of forms from the finely pinnate to the 
almost simple and extremely robust, and in shade to the very 
complanate forms, for one unused to this moss it is an excellent 
place to study it. Mnium hornum, which is perhaps the best 
distributed moss in the area, was found on rocks in the stream 
occasionally. Time interfered with us here, and the next 
streamlet, even more promising, had to be left unworked, a 
Naturalist, 
