306 ROTHERAY : FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF ARENARIA GOTHICA. 
occurrence in such sparse numbers so far pointed to its not being at 
all abundant in this part of the track; so after proceeding a short 
distance further a return was made to the point of division in order 
to explore the right-hand portion of the track, together with the 
space of ground lying between them. 
Here the conditions of moisture and composition of surface 
formation varied very much from that of the other track, for whilst 
the latter was comparatively dry and stony, this one, as well as the 
intervening space, was very wet, the ground in many places being 
completely soaked by the streams of water that gushed from the 
base and sides of the ridge along which the left portion of the track 
was continued. As in the other track, so also here, the Avenaria 
was discovered in but scanty numbers, the ground generally being 
too wet and unsuitable for it. 
After a most thorough examination of the place, the right-hand 
track was further continued along the pasture, but as no signs of the 
Arenaria appeared upon the grassy surface so far as it was followed, 
weit search upon it was abandoned, a renewed examination being 
en to the higher and left-hand one, at the point where it was 
saesiekds left. From here the track was followed to where it 
forward to the gateway leading into the next pasture, the Avenaria 
still appearing here and there along the track as before. A short 
distance, however, before reaching the gate it vanished, but re- 
appeared on the other side of the gate in the next pasture, and still 
continued to do so, while the track remained upon the ledge, on 
which it had so long kept its course. After leaving here the track 
joined again the level pasture, when the Avenaria finally disappeared 
on this track, but as suddenly reappeared in the next pasture on 
quite a different track, which ran almost at right angles to the one 
that had last been followed. In this third pasture, as in the other 
two, the track after a short course of some twenty to thirty yards 
over a grassy surface, suddenly changed to a stony one, and here for 
about fifty yards the plants of Avenaria appeared sparingly upon it, 
some of them being the finest I had seen during the whole day. 
Thus, the three stations in the three pastures above quoted, viz-, 
Sulber, the next to it, and Borrins, constitute the three places in 
which I claim to have made further pela of Arenaria gothica, 
these being additions to those already kno 
With respect to the companion aahiawk this was characteristic 
of all the other stations I had. seen, except that here Luphrasia 
officinalis was the most common plant. Along with it were Gentian 
amarella, Sagina nodosa, Arenaria verna, Linum cathartitum, 
: Naturalist, 
