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sometimes for \ears. I watched a charming- sunset from the 

 steep edge of the Clouders, overlooking Cowside Beck, and 

 with one late blooming double-petalled mountain Drvus, pure 

 as the driven snow, at my feet. 



One of the most interesting plants of the \ icinitv of Arncliffe 

 is the pale yellow and graceful Welsh or Craven Poppy {.\fecon- 

 op.sts cdnibn'ca), which is found growing plentifully in at least 

 one station, a wood amongst limestone scree, side by side with 

 Geranium liwuiiitn and Thalictniin /noidatiuni^ siu-ely native ? 

 and as such one of the rarest Yorkshire plants. True, it is 

 seen in the valley in gardens, but more likely to have been 

 brought hither than carried thence. 



Arnber Scar fields the dull pvn-ple Helleborine Orchis 

 {Epipacfis atronihrus), Solomon's Seal {Polygonatum officinale)^ 

 Lily of the Valley in its adjoining copses, Galium borcalc in fine 

 masses on many a jutting crag, together with a profusion of 

 Blood Geranium, and Melancholy Thistle, and many trees of 

 Pyriis rupicola^ so typical of this limestone country of West 

 Yorkshire. Here, too, the Jacob's Ladder [Polcmoniam 

 ccFnileum) is line and plentiful, and ver\- handsome it looks 

 lining the cliffs with its blue purple spikes. I was glad to see 

 Draba mitralis, both here and on the Cowside Scars, where also 

 Yew is abundant, and there is a small montane form of Myosofis 

 sylvalica, the same mentioned in ' Speight's Craven Highlands ' 

 as growing at Malham, but not the true M. alpes/ris of Mickle 

 Fell. Near Cowside Beck, in calcareous bogs, grows Eriophorum 

 lafifoliiim, and nearer .Arncliffe Sccfum vi/losiim occurs. 



Hesleden Gill, beyond Litton, perhaps the wildest glen in 

 West \'orkshire, is the home of the serrate-crenate and wild 

 form of Saxifniiid iimbrosa (the London Pride), and not far from 

 its habitat Pibcs pctrcvum and Actcca spicata may be found. 

 Polygonum viviparum is plentiful on moist lands under 

 Fountains Fell, and at the head of the gill where the stream 

 pours out of the rocks, and falls in a succession of cascades, 

 there is a small quantity of the Purple Saxifrage {S. opposilifolia), 

 perhaps washed down from Penyghent, but possibly bird-sown 

 (except for the fact that the seeds are \ery minute), from the 

 western crags of the mountain, as it is not to \^^\ knowledge 

 found on the eastern cliffs, and nowlurc elsr in Wiiarfedale. 

 Mr. F. ,\. Lees records in his ' I'lora of West \'orkshire ' a few 

 stunted Junipers in the swallow holes at Hesleden Gill Head, 

 the only station in the dale. It was ln-re also where 1 watched 

 for ten miiiutcs, a Heron, wading in mid-stream, within filtcen 



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