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Woodhead : Botany of Cautley and Tehay. 



C. fimbriata, and padding large spaces between the stones were 

 dead clumps of the moss, Rhacomitrium canescens ; these were 

 the early invaders, and contributed a soil which accummulated 

 between the damp stones below. Growing in the shelter of 

 hollows and behind banks of stones, the Parsley fern {Crypto- 



Photo by] []■ Bradley. 



Parsley Fern on the Screes at Cautley Crag. 



gramme crispa) flourished luxuriantly, and was the most con- 

 spicuous of the vascular plants. Other rhizomatous scree- 

 binders were Bilberry, Limestone Polypody, and Bracken, 

 the dead fronds and rhizomes of the latter being abundant 

 among the stones. On the masses of parsley fern and growing 

 in the humus which it forms were Vernal grass. Hair grass. Bent 

 grass, Lady's Bedstraw, round-leaved Bellflower {Campanula 

 rotundi folia) and Foxglove {Digitalis purpurea). Invading the 

 edges were the Soft grass {H. mollis), Bilben-y and Bracken. 



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