384 Notes on the Flora oj Eskdale and Wasdale. 
the very local Lycopodium inundatum is plentiful in stony 
bogs, Ranunculus Flammula variety pseudo-reptans is found 
and Drosera wmtermedia grows with the round-leaved species. 
Potentilla fruticosa grows in Devil’s Sledgate, a ravine of the 
Screes, and is reported from near Ulpha, which locality may 
possibly be in Lake Lancashire. 
I found a large quantity of Stachys ambigua, a well-known 
hybrid, in one locality near Boot, and a form of one of its 
parents Stachys palustris, with paler flowers, affecting dryer 
ground than the usual ditch loving form, in the same vicinity. 
The slopes of Scawfell were too dry, above 2,000 feet, for 
Alpines, though small specimens of Saxifraga stellaris occurred 
as hgh as 3,000 feet. This and S. aizoides were the only two 
species observed in the district. Oxyria reniformis, and dwarfed 
Alchemulla alpina occurred, while according to Rev. E. S. Mar- 
shall, the rare form of Deschampsia cespitosa var. alpinus = 
var. brevifolia was found at 2,4co0 feet. Two Euphrasias also 
examined by him are E. Rost oviana and E. stricta from 
Wasdale Head. One feature was the abundance on Scawfell’s 
summit ridge at 2,600 feet, of Vaccinium Vuitis-id@a, barren 
examples only, an inch or two in height, with rather narrower 
leaves than usual and more pointed, though evergreen, suggest- 
ing at first sight the Arctic Willow which occurs under similar 
conditions on Scawfell Pike and Helvellyn. Parsley Fern 
descends to Boot village at 300 feet, and is reported from Black 
Combe at nearer sea level. 
Mention must be made of the mountain tarns, where many 
interesting species occur, and especially of Birker Tarn, a mere 
pool under Green Crag and east of the road from Boot to Ulpha. 
Its elevation is about goo feet. It contains Menyanthes, Phrag- 
mites, Equisetum limosum, Sparganium affine, while S. minimum 
and one or two Carices grow in the stream watering it from 
the moss. Isoétes, Littorella lacustris, and Lobelia all occur 
here, and in many other tarns, and I have little doubt some 
still more valuable discoveries might be made rather earlier in 
the season. 
Two solitary Yews, old trees, can be seen high up the Esk 
Valley, reminders of the famed Seathwaite, Borrowdale, and 
Duddon examples, the three localities in practically a straight 
line from north to south. 
When in Eskdale on this occasion I was unaware that Mr. 
Percy H. Grimshaw contributed some ‘notes’ on this very 
district to The Naturalist ot Nov. 1890. His observations were 
wholly made, however, in early June, with the result that 
many species he saw were ‘ over’ when I was there; per contra, 
many of those I noted, being late or autumnal in their maturing, 
may fairiy be regarded as usefully supplemental to the already 
published very full list. 
Naturalist, 
