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them. The following plants grow either upon or near the Shawl 



or amongst the debris of the quarries : 



Vicia sylvatica 

 Galium sylvestre 

 Sanilmcus Ebuliis 

 Hieracium C(zsium 

 Orobanche 7-ubra 



Helleborus viridis 

 Tees da Ha nudicaulis 

 Aretiaria tenuifolia 

 Sagina ciliata 

 Linuvi perenne 

 Euonymus europceus 

 Trifoliwn striatum 



Gagea lutea 



Festuca pseudo-inyurus. 



We must now return to Hawes and take the south side of the 

 dale. In this direction, as stated before, the branch dales are 

 broader, deeper and altogether more important than those of 

 the north side of the river. In the spinney just below Hawes 

 the Reed Grass {Calamagrostis eptgejos) grows abundantly, in its 

 highest Yorkshire station. Along the line of watershed on the 

 south the ridge of hill which separates Yoredale from Wharfe- 

 dale scarcely declines anywhere from the head of Widdale 

 eastward to the peak of Great Whernside, a distance of at least 

 ten miles in a straight line, below the limit of the Upper Zone 

 and along the whole length of this ridge the Main Limestone 

 reaches a height of 600 or 650 yards. 



The ridge which bounds Widdale on the east culminates in 

 the peak of Dodd Fell, 2189 feet in height, with a cap of grit- 

 stone nearly 300 feet in thickness over the Main Limestone. 

 Amongst the heather here at over 2000 feet, Melampyrum mon- 

 tauum grows with Rubus Chaiiiceiiiorits in plenty. In the swal- 

 low holes of Ten End — the northern extremity — Epilobium 

 angustlfoliuni flourishes profusely with Distichiuni capillaceum 

 and Encalypta ciliata on the low scars. The slope of this hill 

 is very little diversified by rock, and the ascent is easy and the 

 view from the summit very fine. On the north is Hawes and the 

 broad branching Wensleydale hollow, with Lovely Seat and the 

 woods of Hardraw in the background. East and west, immedi- 

 ately beneath the ridge, their streams 1000 feet below it, are 

 Widdale and Gayledale. Dodd Fell forms one corner of a square 

 of which Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent are the other 



