6o baker's north YORkSrilRte. 



sylvaficum, Bromus asper, Melica nutans, M. uniflora, Carex 

 digitata, C. glauca, C. sylvaiica), and in lesser quantity 

 Aquilegia and Actcea, Viola hirta, Hypericum hirsutum and 

 If. montanum. Upon the opposite side of the gill the soil is 

 damper and more loamy and Lathraa and Neottia may be found, 

 upon the stones abundance of RhyncJiostegiinn murale, and upon 

 the lower edge of the wood Polypodium Dryopteris and Bil- 

 berry, Blechnum boreale and Calhcna. 



There is no stream till we reach the surface of the Oxford 

 Clay. 400 feet below the top of the plateau, and then a bright 

 clear little brook gushes out and soon gathers to a rivulet of 

 tolerable size, fed by springs the outpouring of which trickles 

 through oozy plashes rich with bright green and purple moss 

 (notably Hypnuju condensaium and also Brymn ventricosum, H. 

 cuspidatum, H. revolvetis, Camptothecium nitens, Mnium affine and 

 Bartramia calcarea), and diversified by swamp Carices {C.fulva, 

 C. flava, C. dioica, C. pulicaris, C. stellulata), Eriophorum 

 latifolium, Primula farinosa, Lychnis Blos-cuculi, Caltha, and 

 Epipactis palustris. In one place there is a swampy thicket 

 filled with bushes of Salix Andersoniana. At the lower part of 

 the gill there is a space of pasture-land on both sides of the 

 stream, and some of the woods upon its slope consist of planted 

 Coniferae. It is altogether about three miles in length and 

 opens out at the town of Helmsley.' 



' Ro?nbald^s Moor and the Cow and Calf Rocks over Ilkley. — 

 Between the two dales (Wharfedale and Airedale) there is a ridge 

 of hill which is here some three or four miles across, which 

 rises at the centre of the ridge to a height of 1300 feet, and over 

 the edge of the dales is from 900 to 1000 above the sea-level, 

 600 to 700 feet above the main streams. Everywhere from the 

 watershed to the dale edges sweeps a continuous surface of undu- 

 lated turfy heatherland, over the sandstone a thinner or thicker 

 covering of soft rich brown peat and everywhere that same so 

 well-known gregarious heatherland vegetation. Far away it 

 sweeps, miles to eastward along where the ridge grows lower 



