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quite outside the limits of the Nick, the wall being an effectual 
barrier which divided the one from the other. During all the length 
of the track before indicated, the Avenaria appeared sparingly and 
not ‘in abundance,’ on both the track and sides, until before 
arriving at the gate leading into Sulber pasture, it entirely 
disappeared within a few yards of it. 
By the time this spot was examined, it was past noon, so that if 
anything more in the way of investigating other portions of the track 
or the vicinity was to be done, it would be utterly impossible for me 
to return a mile on the back track in order to examine Mr. Farrer’s 
second station at the entrance to Clapham Bottoms. 
From the head of Sulber Nick the cart-track, by a somewhat 
winding route, leads on to Selside,-and this portion, therefore, 
I decided to explore ; so, quitting Mr. Farrer’s Station 1, I passed 
through the gateway into Sulber pasture. Hitherto the track had 
been single, but after proceeding a short distance beyond the gate- 
way, it suddenly divided into two branches, one turning diagonally 
to the left, whilst the other (a continuation of the single one) kept 
on in a direct but downward course along the level of the pasture, 
closely hugging the base of a small flat terrace some ro or 12 feet in 
elevation, up and along which, a short distance after division, the 
left-hand track ascended and ran. 
For some 30 yards or so, after leaving the gate, no sign of the 
Arenaria was seen, but by-and-by single plants began to make their 
appearance upon the track, sometimes between the cart-wheel ruts, 
at others close on the outside of each, but never in a continuous 
line, the number varying with the formation and composition of the 
ground. In this manner the division of the two tracks was reached, 
the ground having changed within the distance from a grassy nature 
to one of broken stones intermixed with scant soil, and then from 
that to patches of bare limestone overgrown in places with moss 
and soil, the two latter being the most fruitful in specimens of the 
Arenaria. 
On arriving at the point of division, the left-hand portion of the 
track was the one first followed and examined. Like the other 
patches between and along each side of the wheel marks. In these 
places sometimes a single plant was found, and sometimes two or 
three were noted close together, but it was very rarely, and at long 
intervals in distance, that a larger number was discovered. Its 
Peaaeeeece 
E Noy, 1895. 
