1 68 baker's north Yorkshire. 



village grow Equisetiwi variegatuin and Blysmiis compressiis. 

 Two miles from the Yore is a lake measuring between two 

 and three miles in circuit, which is called Semer Water, 

 and which is the only lake of even a moderate size of which 

 North Yorkshire can boast. Bare, steep, grassy hills rise with 

 much abruptness from its eastern and western shores, and 

 beyond the lake there is a little village with a rustic church, 

 and broad branching glens with woods and scattered farm- 

 houses, and numerous gills which penetrate into the recesses 

 of a long steep limestone ridge which runs like a wall along 

 the line of watershed on the south. The rarer plants of the 

 lake-side and surrounding crags and gills are : 



Polygonum viviparum 

 Juncus diffusus 

 Scirpus aciciilaris 

 Sesleria ccerulea 

 Lycopodium selaginoides 



Hutchinsia petrcea 



Draba i?ica7ia 



Pote7itilla verna 



Hippuris vulgaris 



Sedmn villosum 



Peuceda?iu7n Ostruthium 



Crepis succiscBfolia E7icalypta ciliata 



Lathrica squaJ7iaria Webe7'a elo7igata 



Plantago 77iariti77ia Zieria julacea 



Alis7/m 7tatans Hyp7iu7n lycopodioides. 



From Hawes past Bainbridge and Askrigg the fall of the 

 main stream of the Yore is very gradual, when the elevation 

 above the sea-level of its bed is considered. The Juniper grows 

 on the Yore bank near Askrigg station, one of its few stations 

 in Wensleydale. At Aysgarth, in a deeply excavated rocky 

 channel with a wooded bank rising steeply from it upon 

 either side, it begins to form a series of picturesque rapids 

 which are continued for about a mile. Fed by the waters 

 of the wide-branching dales which one after another have 

 poured their contributions into it, the stream is now a fine 

 river. Margined by the long winding scars of the Lower 

 Mountain Limestone and interpolated plate beds it flows down 

 this pleasant Aysgarth glen, its dark peat -stained waters 

 hemmed in upon both sides by shelving reaches of moss-fringed 

 grey limestone rock, and above them there rises a steep bank 



