V35 
CORNUS SUECICA ON THE YORK MOORS. 
HAROLD J. BURKILL, M.A., F.R.G.S. 
Tuis plant is recorded in Mr. J. G. Baker’s ‘North Yorkshire ’ 
as occurring in three localities, v7z. Hole of Horcum, Cross Cliff 
Banks, and near Hackness. Mr. Gordon Home’s ‘ Yorkshire 
Coast and Moorland Scenes,’ published some two or three years 
ago, gave (erroneously) the Hole of Horcum as the only locality 
for the plant south of the Cheviots. 
In may therefore be of interest to Yorkshire botanists to 
place on record the notes on this plant I have been able to 
make during the past fifteen years, partly from information 
supplied by others, and partly from my own observations. 
(1) From information given me by the two authors mentioned 
above, I should say that the records for the Hole of Horcum 
possibly refer to the same patch of Cornus which is inside the 
Hole. In neither case, however, has the recorder seen the plant 
growing there. 
(2) Cross Cliff Banks. This locality, mentioned by Mr. Baker, 
is probably identical with the one well-known to some members 
of the Scarborough Field Naturalists’ Society, where there is a 
small bed of the plant, the precise position of which is carefully 
kept secret, and observations made every year by the society. 
In spite of these precautions, this patch may be in danger of 
extermination from ruthless collectors, as when I visited it in 
August 1904, a considerable amount of damage had been done 
to the plants by someone a few days previously. It was, how- 
ever, fairly plentiful in 1905. 
I have not heard the term ‘Banks’ applied to this part of 
Cross Cliff, but as this is by far the best known habitat of the 
plant, I have no doubt it is the one reported some years ago to 
Mr. Baker. 
(3) Near the Derwent towards Hackness. This locality 
given by Mr. Baker is not one that I can identify. There are 
some likely places near Langdale End Village, and again lower 
down the valley on the hillside to the west of the stream, but I 
have not heard of the plant from this neighbourhood. Mr. 
Baker himself cannot give further information about this spot 
than he has in his book, and Mr. Wilson, the Hackness school- 
master, who has succeeded in instilling a love of botany among 
his pupils, told me in 1905 he did not know of it in the district. 
(4) The largest patch of the plant I know of is between the 
1907 April r. 
