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including Weathercote Cave. In addition to this, the small party 

 above-mentioned had worked about the Moorcock Inn, near 

 Hawes Junction, thence over Baugh Fell, down the Rawthey 

 Valley to Sedbergh, then over the Howgill Fells, round Cautley 

 Spout, and back again to Sedbergh, thence to Dent, through 

 Deepdale and up the western slope of Whernside to the summit, 

 the descent being made through Kingsdale to Ingleton. There 

 were not a large number of flowering plants seen, for, in addition 

 to the early time of the year being against the observance of a 

 large number, the protracted winter had hardly yet left the 

 district, all the hill-tops being more or less covered with ice and 

 snow. Representatives of all the kinds of soils mentioned in 

 the supplement to last year's report were met with in this 

 ramble, and a large number of the plants enumerated as charac- 

 teristic of these soils were seen. A larger number of cryptogams 

 were noticed than phanerogams — an occurrence at our meetings 

 without a precedent — only 121 of the latter class being seen, 

 whereas 157 of the former were noticed. Among the rarer 

 vascular plants seen were several which are found nowhere else 

 in the West Riding, as Alchemilla alpina on the Howgill Fells, and 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia on Ingleborough. Among the other rare 

 plants observed were Drab a ^nuralis, Alsine verjia, Ruhus 

 Chamamorns, Saxifraga atzoides, S. hypnoides, Taxus baccata and 

 Sesleria carulea. Vascular cryptogams were plentiful, the rarer 

 being Hymenophyllum unilaterale, Cryptogramme crispa, Asphnium 

 vtride, Lycopodium clavafum, L. Selago, L. alpinum and Selaginella 

 selaginoides. 



Mosses were gathered in great variety and luxuriance. Oriho- 

 trichiim. diaphanum occurred near Hawes Junction, Baugh Fell 

 yielded Andrecza falcata, Orthoirichum saxaltle, Mnium sfellare, 

 Eretitelia arcuata and Polytrichum strictum, while the Rawthey 

 Valley produced Ulota intermedia, U. Bruchii and Fissidens 

 bryoides ; but the richest gatherings were made on the curiously 

 shaped Howgill Fells, where the Silurian formation was noticed 

 to produce quite a change in the flora. Andrecea petrophila, 



