FRAGARIA— RUBUS. 29 1 



Fragaria vesca L. British type. Native. Area general. 

 Range 0-500. Common in shaded and grassy places, ascending 

 to Cronkley Scars and the Main Limestone Scars of Punchard's 

 Gill. 



Fragaria elatior Ehrh. Alien. Cultivated and occasion- 

 ally subspontaneous. Richmond, Sinderby, Hobmoor near 

 York, etc. 



Rubus Chamaemorus L. Highland type. Native. Mon- 

 tane. Area 987. Range 400-850. Confined to the western 

 hills. It is frequent upon most of tlie higher summits : Mickle 

 Fell, Great Whernside, Dod Fell, Rogan's Seat, Nine Standards 

 Rigg, etc., and descends to Barningham Moor and the Tees 

 side at U[)per Cronkley. This species, Empetntm nii:;ruin and 

 Lycopodiuin Selago, are the only three of the Montane plants 

 which enter into prominent association with the swamp-heather- 

 land (lorula of the high gritstone swells. 



Rubus saxatilis L. Scottish type. Native. Montane. 

 Sub-xerophilous. Area 987.3. Range 100-550. In Tees- 

 dale upon the scars of Cronkley Fell and Crossvhwaite Beck, 

 and about the stream at the Maize Beck Falls, Winch Bridge, 

 Middleton and Egglestonc Abbjy. In SwaleJale on Whitsun- 

 dale Scars, in Cliff Gill, Gunnerside (iiil, at Kisdon Force, and 

 in several i)laccs lower down about Uownholme and Richmond. 

 In the Yore district at I'ossdale Woods, Widdale, Gayle P'orce, 

 Whitfield Force, Aysgarth Force, etc. In the dales of the 

 eastern calcareous range frequent from the Hambleton Hills 

 eastward to Forge Valley, and occurring also in several places 

 in the Howardian tract. 



Rubus Idaeus L. British type. Native. Area general. 

 Range 0-600. Frecpient in woods and thickets, especially 

 amongst the hills, ascending to Cronkley Scars and in Pun- 

 chard's Gill above the Main Limestone cliffs and waterfall. 



Rubus suberectus Anders. English type. Native. Area 

 8.65. Range 0-200. I have never myself been able to find 

 this in the North Riding, although I have gathered it in Teesdale 



Sept. i88y. 



