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direction of Clapham Bottoms, whilst the other to the left proceeds 

 towards Crummack Dale. When I commenced the survey of this 

 portion of the cart-track I was under the impression that the Arenaria 

 was here an absentee, no plants having been seen by Mr. Farrer 

 between his two stations, either at the time of their discovery or 

 since. Imagine, therefore, my surprise when, after proceeding a few 

 yards beyond the spot where I found the first plant on August 13th, 

 I came across three specimens of the Arenaria inside the cart-ruts, 

 and three more some 20 yards further south, in the same position, 

 all in full flower. In this manner, with but slight variation in the 

 intervals of distance from each other, I traced the Arenaria all the 

 way along the single track, to where it divided into the Crummack 

 Dale and Clapham Bottoms tracks, the plant appearing sometimes 

 singly, and at others in twos and threes, but never in lamer 



numbers, and always in the part between the wheel-ruts, never 

 outside them, the reason being in my opinion that the ground was 

 too grassy for its sustenance. 



The discovery and tracing of the Arenaria upon the single track 

 up to the point of division gave me hope for the exploration of the 

 two branches, and it was with no small amount of this feeling that 

 I first commenced the Clapham Bottoms track. This had not been 

 tollowed more than 10 or 12 yards when two plants were met with, 

 but no more were seen for the next 400 yards or so, the track, 

 during nearly the whole of this distance, being scarcely distinguishable 

 on account of the long grass which here formed the covering of the 

 ground over which it ran. At about this distance, however, a change 

 began, and the track here passed over a portion of bare lime- 

 stone which protrudes above the soil, on which several specimens 

 of the Arenaria were found, whilst on some damp stony ground, 

 adjacent to the limestone, were found several other specimens, some 



even or ten yards from the track itself. From this point no other 

 plants of the Arenaria were seen upon the track until Mr. Farrers 



Nation 2 was reached, when they again began to appear very 

 sparingly in odd places along the stony portions of it for a distance 

 of perhaps 60 or 70 yards, and then again suddenly disappeared at 

 a point 100 yards or so before the track left the hill side and 

 passed through a gate into an adjoining pasture, and thence into 

 Clapham Bottoms, 



With the exploration of the Crummack Dale track, however, 

 for better results in the discovery of the Arenaria were obtained. 

 In the first 240 yards of this track, from the point of division, 

 I counted between 30 and 40 specimens of the Arenaria. all 

 of which were growing between the cart-wheel ruts, 10 of them 



A PnI 1896. 



