1 70 baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



The rarer plants of the woods and crags and fields of these 

 dales are : 



Draba incana 

 Potoitilla alpestris 

 Agrimo?tia odorata 

 Peucedanum Ostruthium 

 Galium sylvestre 

 Hieracium ccesiwn 

 Atropa Belladonna 

 Mentha sylvestris 

 Habenaria albida 

 Ophrys apifera 



Ophrys muscifera 

 Allium Scorodoprasum 

 Eriophorum latifoliutn 

 Sesleria ccerulea 

 Polypodiuni calcareum 

 Allosorus crispus 

 Asplenium viiide 



Encalypta ciliata 

 Zieria julacea. 



Pursuing our course still further towards the east we come 

 next to the ridge which separates Waldendale from Coverdale. 

 It runs from Buckden Pike towards the north-east and termin- 

 ates in Penhill (1817 feet), a fine broad massive heathery fell 

 which stands boldly out into the main dale of Yore and forms 

 a very conspicuous object in the view from Leyhurn and the 

 Vale of Mowbray. Coverdale is twelve miles in length, its 

 upper part being guarded by high hills upon both sides. Oppo- 

 site Buckden Pike there is Great Whernside* (2310 feet), an 

 undulated grassy hill which commands beautiful views down 

 Wharfedale and Nidderdale and over the lower summits to the 

 east of it and across the Vale of York. This peak is the ter- 

 mination on the east of the long ridge of high moor that runs 

 along the line of watershed between the Yore and Wharfe and 

 upon its eastward slope the Nidd has its course ; and looking 

 from Thirsk westward it is the highest point upon the line of 

 the horizon. From Great Whernside and Little Whernside 

 (1985 feet) the peaks decline gradually along the ridge towards 

 the north-east, Rover Crag, which guards the entrance to the 

 dale opposite Penhill, being 1552 feet in elevation. The ground 

 about the lower part of the course of the Cover is open and well 

 wooded. The town and massive old castle at Middleham 

 stand upon the slope of a spur of Penhill not far from the 



* This must not be confounded with the better-known and higher Craven Whernside, 

 which is due north of Ingleborough and south-west of Hawes. 



