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one were discovered, growing on the sides of the footpath, which at 

 this place consisted of rough stony ground. At the sight of these, 

 my first discovery, I began more carefully and minutely to search 

 the adjoining slope and edges of the ascent on each side of 

 the path, but although I went for above 100 yards in one direction, 

 and between 30 and 40 in the opposite one, not another plant 

 of the Armaria did I see about there. In the evening, however, 

 when returning to the station, a more extended survey of the 

 ground at the base of the slope was made, resulting after a while 

 in the discovery of four more places in which the Arenaria 

 rew. The situation of three of these, like the first one, was 

 alongside of the same footpath, tw r o being on one side and one on 

 the other, whilst the fourth one was right in the centre of the track, 

 the distance from first to last being some 300 to 400 yards from the 

 wicket-gate. In point of character these places differed very con- 

 siderably; the first, on which were about 20 plants, consisting 

 of a large flat piece of limestone rock, partly covered with 

 sandy soil, and bearing one or two juniper bushes, under which the 

 largest plants were found. In the second and third, however, the 

 soil was a mixture of sand and peat, intermixed with small broken 

 pieces of limestone, the place being very moist, as if water had 

 recently lodged there ; and in the last one, the ground was more 

 dry and stony. The number of piants in the second and third was 

 14 and 11 respectively, but in the fourth there were only three. 



In the morning, after leaving the precincts of Sulber Nick, my 

 attention was given to the portion of the cart-track lying to 

 the south of Mr. Farrer's Station L, and extending thence to his 

 second station, at the entrance to Clapham Bottoms, a distance of a 

 mile or thereabouts. 



On emerging through the gateway out of Sulber pasture, the 

 cart-track enters upon a large tract of open moorland, called Long 

 Scar, and during its entire length from Station I. to Station II. it is 

 wholly confined to this pasture, the course of the track being along 

 the more grassy and nearly level portion, this being bounded on each 

 side (east and west) by rocky limestone ridges rising one above the 

 other, from which I suppose the pasture gains its name. On this 

 pasture Mr. Farrer's two stations are situated, at the northern and 

 southern extremities, Station I. occupying the former and Station li- 

 the latter position, connected by the cart-track which runs from 

 Clapham to Selside. 



On entering this pasture, and for about half the distance of 

 its course through it, the cart-track is single, after which it divides 

 into two branches, one of which turns to the right and runs in the 



Naturalist, 



