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covered rock, in a field between the road and the lake, Mr. Farrer 
has here found the plant again, in some quantity: his first find of 
1895. This spot is only 650 feet above the sea-level. 
The foregoing—the first five—stations are, singularly, all along 
a line of more or less occasional travel. But the sixth, and final one 
hitherto, differs in this respect. On the third of July Mr. Farrer 
or track, plentifully on broken flags about quarter of a mile above 
Sulber Nick. The plant here grows much more erect, with Sedum 
villosum, Arenaria verna, A. serpyllifolia, Sagina apetala, and S. 
nodosa, ‘This is a remote spot almost on the (actual) moors, where 
it surely cannot have been introduced.’ This last locality is at an 
elevation of 1,250 feet. It is on the direct line of ascent of the 
mountain, and the nearest track to it is that which, as already stated, 
crosses the head of Sulber Nick. 
By the kindness of Mr. Rotheray, Miss Thompson, and Mr. Farrer, 
I have specimens from all of the six localities, and those from 
the last do show a more erect and slender habit than the rest. 
But Mr. Farrer says that he has observed somewhat similar ones 
elsewhere. The difference, however, is not great. 
Leaving Ribblehead out of the question, the five quite natural 
stations for the 4. gothica are very similar in their characters. ‘The 
tract occupied by them is entirely one of the carboniferous limestone. 
They are spots where this forms small level plateaux of irregular 
surface, with a scanty supply of earth in their frequent hollows. 
Sagina nodosa and apetala, Arenaria verna and serpyllifolia, Linum 
catharticum, Cerastium vulgatum, and sometimes common grasses, 
form the companion vegetation. To these must be added Primula 
Jarinosa at Sulber Nick, and Sedum villosum at the higher moorside 
location. 
Considerable search has been made for this Avenaria in other 
parts of the great limestone district of Craven and Ingleton ; by Mr. 
Rotheray and Mr. Farrer on the Penyghent or eastern side of the 
Ribble Valley, and by Mr, Fatrer on the hills above Ingleton, on 
Moughton Scar and the hills between it and Helln Pot, on the 
limestone tracts above the Pot, and on the Malham plateau. But 
hitherto, it has not been met with outside of the narrow region west 
of the Ribble, which I have indicated. 
The earliest date of which I have any knowledge of the A. gothica 
flowering is given by a specimen received from Miss Thompson, in 
full bloom, gathered by her on the 6th May, 1890. Mr, Farrer 
obtained flowering plants on May roth this year, and he observed 
them in 1894 as late as December 3rd. 
Sept. 1895. 
