180 Review: Botany of Sedbergh. 
list, but a full one, of the wild flowers of Dentdale, Garsdale, 
and Luneside, without exact habitats for fear of the rapacity 
of collectors—a wise practice, not, alas! the general custom— 
and for a local list bears internal evidence of discrimination and 
caution. We have few demurrers to make: one only, in fact, 
and two other statements to query. TJrienéalis grows both at. 
Brimham and on Swill Hill, Halifax, as also about Grindleton 
Fell, near Clitheroe—all three considerably to the south of 
Sedbergh. This coming spring it would be well to make sure if 
the Potentilla ‘verna’ of the rail-bank near the Rawthey Bridge 
is. really that species, and not the more likely adpestris; the 
Malham and Dunnow Cliff species belong to the latter; and 
also, I believe, the early Bakerian record for Waldendale in 
ey. The fine large Agrimonia odorata should occur ; it 
likes rough bushy ground below scars on disintegrated limestone 
or silurian soils, occurring in both Weardale and Wensleydale 
under such conditions. In the north it is not often very odorific, 
and ¢wo nuts are not invariably found in the burr—only in the 
larger, earlier ones. I fear it is not a very ‘good’ species. 
There is a probable error in the statement that in Ravenstone- 
dale a prickly shield fern (Aspzdium riser grows which 
‘seems a cross between this and the Lonchitis’; how can that 
be when the Holly i is not on record at ‘all ? Hybrids 
between ferns are almost unknown; and the variety is probably 
_ that named pi ARE because it simulates Lonchitis in 
physiognomy. Perhaps the most interesting name in the list is 
that of Gentiana campestris, about which, however, no informa- 
tion is given. ne observation is worth quotation for the 
insight it gives into the unconscious trickery growing out of 
pseudo-mimicry. Of Genisfa tinctoria (Dyer’s Greenweed) we 
are felicitously told that ‘ Bees alight on the keel of the blossom 
looking for honey, but find none; they set the pistil free’ (off!) 
and the pollen is shot out in a shower! True, and amazing 
to who observes it for the first time. Draba muralis, put on 
record for Garsdale in 1666 by Chr. Merritt, was confirmed by 
Dr. H. F. Parsons in 1879. Though the booklet is tiny, it is 
charming : one could discourse for long on the allusive texts its 
items suggest. The mysterious presence, or in the case of this 
tract absence, of Juniper, on the fells, wants clearing up: no 
shrub has a queerer distribution; it likes slate, it grows on 
limestone, yet is non est very often where it ought to be; and, 
again, is where it eeDF not, oT soils are a factor in its 
ce ba apr i‘, : ene F. ARNOLD Lees. 
Naturalist, : 
