THE FYLDE : PHYTOGEOGRAPHY 



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OEnanthe fistulosa 

 Bidens cernua .... 



Bidens tripartita 



Hottonia palustris 

 Typha angustifolia 

 Sparganium neglectum ... 

 Lemna gibba 

 Potamogeton obtusifolius 

 Scirpus lacustris... 

 Glyceria aquatica 



Water Dropwort. 



Bur Marigold. 



Three-cleft Bur Marigold. 



Water Violet. 



Lesser Reedmace. 



Long-beaked Branched Burr-Reed. 



Gibbous Duckweed. 



Obtuse Pondweed. 



Bulrush. 



Reed Poa. 



Area VII. 

 (The inland area around Kirkham.) 



We are now left with the region east of that last dealt with. Geologically, 

 the Kirkham neighbourhood consists of Triassic Pebble Beds, and Tnassic 

 Marl, overlain by deep deposits of glacial drift and Boulder Clay. The 

 country around Catforth and Inskip was, together with Region Vila., i.e., 

 that now drained by Woodplumpton Brook, extensive bog. The species of 

 interest are bog survivals and plants of the ditches : — 



Potamogeton obtusifolius .... Obtuse Pondweed. 



Sparganium simplex Simple Burr-Reed. 



Scirpus sylvaticus Wood Scirpus. 



and 



.... Common Meadow Rue. 



Water Dropwort. 



Three-cleft Bur Marigold. 



Farming in this district is probably the most varied and most successful 

 in the Fylde. 



Thalictrum flavum 

 OEnanthe aquatica 

 Bidens tripartita... 



THE PEAT MOSSES OF THE FYLDE 



BY 



F. WALKER. 



The peat mosses of the Fylde form one of the most interesting features of the 

 physical geography of the district, and there have been frequent references 

 to them since the mediaeval period. 



At the foundation of the Lytham cell at the end of the twelfth century the 

 position of a great moss in south-west Fylde was used in dividing land between 



