probably have passed over many which now 
figure in my lists, and should have added 
others which are less familiar to the Scottish 
Botanist, though frequent in the South- 
east of England. 
The first locality I had to examine, was 
Leckby or Lakeby Carr. This lies about 
seven miles from Borough Bridge, and not 
much less from Thirsk. "The intermediate 
village of Topcliffe offers the best station 
from which to visit it. I went in the stage 
from Borough Bridge to Topcliffe, and 
walked from the latter place, a distance of 
hardly two miles. A gravel-pit on the left 
invited me out of the road, and I passed 
through it to a very pleasant little bank of 
wood, rising from the Ure, where I observ- 
ed Ophrys Nidus Avis, and Paris quadri- 
folia. The south-country Botanist will 
also be gratified by finding Campanula 
latifolia, but at this period (19th June) it 
was not in flower. Returning to the road, 
we pass by a moist meadow, which appears 
to have no outlet for the water. This 
abounds with Carex curta, and, in a ditch 
at the lowest part of the meadow, there 
were a few plants of Lysimachia thysiflora. 
Leckby Carr, which is not far from this, 
occupies a similar, but much larger hollow, 
without any outlet, where the drainage of 
the surrounding land originally formed a 
small pool, the memory of which seems to 
be preserved in the name of the neighbour- 
ing hamlet, Leckby or Lakeby, now con- 
i In a little pond 
hear the entrance, there was a small quan- 
tity of the Lysimachia in flower, and it 
was much more plentiful in a ditch which 
Crosses the bog, near where, at the south- 
em extremity, it curves a little to the 
est. The plant is scattered pretty abund- 
antly along the margin of the bog; but it 
was only in these two places that I saw it 
3n blossom. Apparently there was not else- 
"Where a sufficient quantity of moisture, 
3 for, Ih consequence of the dryness of the 
Season, the morass was traversable in all 
“rections, almost without wetting one's 
DE m; and it was perhaps also owing to 
this circumstance, that I was unable to 
Scover a single plant of the Scheuchze- 
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ria, though I spent an hour and a half in 
searching for it in a very limited space to- 
wards the southern end of the bog; the 
precise spot where my friend Mr. Dalton 
had found it on more than one occasion in 
the greatest abundance. Arundo Cala- 
magrostis and Drosera Anglica are both 
plentiful, but I was too early for the flower. 
Drosera rotundifolia also abounds, but I 
saw no plant of D. longifolia. Mr. W. 
Wilson (Hooker's British Flora, ed. 3. P- 
151) has established an excellent charac- 
ter between the latter and D. Anglica ; but 
the size, colour, and tall scapes of the last- 
mentioned species, render it very easily 
distinguishable at first sight. Vaccinium 
Ozycoccos grows in great quantity, and it 
showed abundance of flowers and of un- 
ripe fruit. The fruit is said to be very 
good, as well as plentiful, in the Carr, a 
proof that this plant does not require 
springy ground, or any change of water to 
make it flourish. I observed a good deal 
of Carex filiformis, and Carex curía oc- 
curs also in this station. 
the next morning proceeded to the hospi- 
table residence of the Rev. James Dalton, 
at Croft. Chrysosplenium aliernifolium is 
plentiful in this neighbourhood, but I was 
too late for it, and as much too early for 
the flowers of Cladium Mariscus, which 
grows at Hell Kettles. These kettles are 
two connected pools in a flat meadow, 
crossed by the foot-path from Croft to 
Darlington. They are said to have been 
formed suddenly by the spontaneous sink- 
ing of the ground, about the end of the 
fifteenth century, and to be unfathomable. 
A small stream issues from them; they are 
very cold, and emit, at times, a sulphureous 
smell To get Ribes petreum, you must 
cross the bridge from Croft, and descend 
for about a furlong on the left bank of the 
Tees. There are only four or five bushes 
of it, and of course it was out of flower; 
but there was unripe fruit, which, however, 
it is very difficult to preserve in drying. If 
quite ripe, it would be impossible to pre- 
serve it, so as to retain any vestige of its 
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