WEST SWALE DISTRICT. 1 55 



Jiinciis obtusiflorus 

 Carex divulsa 

 Arutido Calamagrostis 

 Equisetiim hyemale 



SphcE-rangmni muticum 

 Pleuridhwi nitidum 



Gymnostomum tenue 



„ microstotnum 



Mniufu cuspidatuvi 

 Eurhynchium pumilum 

 Rhynchostegium tenellmn 

 Hylocom ium breviro strum. 



For five miles more the Swale pursues a winding course to- 

 wards the east. Three miles below Richmond it receives 

 Gilling Beck, from the north-west. The limestone from the 

 neighbourhood of Rokeby sweeps round the head of its dale, 

 and above are gritstone slopes, the gritstone on the east of it 

 attaining an elevation of 686 feet in Gatherley Moor. Here 

 Ulex Gallii grows ; and the woods of the upper part of the dale 

 yield Euonymus, Rites alpimini and Hieracium corymbosum ; and 

 the low marshy ground about Skeeby Ranunculus fluitans, 

 Epipactis palustris, Salix nigricans zxi^ S. phylicifolia, Schcenus 

 nigricans and Eriophorum latifolium. At Catterick Bridge the 

 Magnesian Limestone just shews itself and the remainder of the 

 district is included in the Central Valley. 



In the Central Valley the river flows with many windings for 

 twenty miles towards the south-east before it joins the Yore. At 

 Kiplin it receives a little beck from Moulton and Middleton 

 Tyas which rises amongst the limestone. The following rarer 

 plants grow near Catterick Bridge and the lower part of this 

 last-mentioned streamlet : 



Helleborus viridis 

 Turritis glabra 

 Sisymbrium Sophia 

 Spircea Filipendula 

 Bidens cernua 

 „ tripartita 



Atropa Belladonna 

 Scrophularia vernalis 

 Limosella aquatica 

 Teucrium Scordium 

 Marrubium vulgare 

 Polygonum mimis. 



In the Central Valley, here as is usually the case elsewhere, 

 the country is everywhere mapped out into meadows and culti- 

 vated fields, and the highest elevations do not exceed 200 or 

 250 feet. Grimscar Beck on the west is a stream of tolerable 

 size. It flows past the town of Bedale and drains a considerable 



Sept. 1888. 



