MORE ABOUT ARENARIA GOTHICA, 
WILLIAM WHITWELL, F.LS. 
Six stations are now known for the plant discovered by Mr. 
Rotheray in 1889, and as it occurs in fair quantity at each, there is 
no longer any great reason for withholding full particulars respecting 
them, particularly as some peculiarity still attaches to its distribution. 
Only two of the stations have as yet been reported in the-‘ Naturalist,’ 
Mr. Rotheray’s and Dr. Silvanus P. Thompson’s. The other four 
we owe to the botanical ardour of Mr. Reginald J. Farrer, of 
Ingleborough Hall; two were discovered by him in 1894, and two 
during the present year. 
The ‘Journal of Botany’ for November 1894, contained a short 
note by Mr. Farrer, announcing that he had met with the Arenaria 
gothica Fries, at a spot far removed from the two already made 
known. His description was intentionally and properly vague, as of 
course was mine of the Thompson locality, given in the ‘ Naturalist’ 
of September, 1890; and in consequence of this, a suspicion was 
expressed to me that Mr. Farrer had, unknowingly, simply re- 
discovered the station where Dr. Thompson and Miss Thompson 
had recognised the plant. I accordingly wrote to Mr. Farrer upon 
the subject, and he at once replied giving me full particulars— 
supplemented afterwards by personal explanations and examination 
of the Ordnance map together. It was made clear to me, not only 
that Mr. Farrer’s locality was entirely independent of Dr. Thompson’s, 
being more than 1} miles distant from it, but that it would have 
been more properly described as two localities—two spots a mile 
apart having been included under it. Mr. Farrer has kindly allowed 
me to give all details concerning these and his subsequently 
discovered stations. 
All of the six localities are comprised within a narrow district of 
which the two ends, Ribblehead and Clapham, are six miles apart 
on a line drawn nearly due north and south. These ends mark two 
of the localities ; the other four are on the east of this line, that is, 
on the Ribble side of it, and the most distant of the four is not 
more than a mile from the line. 
The first of the six localities is already well known: the railway 
station precincts at Ribblehead consisting entirely of made ground. 
It stands exactly 1,000 feet above the sea. 
The second locality is a little west of Selside, at a spot called 
Font Green. After Dr. Thompson’s observation of the plant here, 
Mr. Rotheray visited it, and kindly supplied me with a full descrip- 
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Sept. 1895. 
