﻿copy of the Catalogue, to which is affixed an indication of the 

 purchasers. Fortune's plants were bought by Planchon (for Kew?) 

 for £9 5s. Od.; Daubeny (Oxford) secured "a small collection 

 formed in the neighbourhood of Macao, by John Reeves," for 

 £1 5s. Od., and another by Potts for £1 Is. Od. ; Bentham obtained 

 Parks's specimens for £4 10a. Od., and these will probably be found 

 in the Kew Herbarium. 



Dr. Bretschneider's remarks on Alexander and Anderson sug- 

 gested to me the possibility that these names represented oi 1 • oi i 

 person, and this view was confirmed by the fact that in Wilson's 

 herbarium the new species described by him in the paper last 

 referred to are written up as from Alexander. To clear up the 

 matter, I have made enquiries at the Admiralty, and Lord Walter 

 Kerr kindly informs me that the medical officer (assistant-surgeon) 

 of H.M.S. Plover — the surveying vessel in the East Indies and 

 China in 1845-6— was William T. Alexander. Anderson therefore 

 disappears. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



THE BOTANY OF HIGH-CUP NICK, WESTMORELAND. 

 By J. G. Baker, F.R.S., and E. G. Baker, F.L.S. 

 High-cup Nick is one of the most remarkable places amongst 

 the mountains of the North of England. It is a lonely mountain 

 glen which opens out on the western side of the great Pennine 

 ridge five miles east of Appleby, and penetrates the ridge for a 

 length of from one to two miles. The upper part is girdled on 

 each side by a long range of basaltic cliffs, so steep that it is only 

 possible to climb them in a few places. This basalt, like that of 

 Teesdale, is intercalated in the midst of the carboniferous lime- 

 stone, which is the prevalent rock of the surrounding ridges and 

 slopes. The stream that rises on the plateau at the head of the 

 glen, and runs down between the crags, is a branch of the Eden, 

 and from the hills there is a fine view across the Eden valley of 

 the Lake mountains from Saddleback to Shap Fell, High Street, 

 and Wild Boar Fell. The head of High-cup Nick is only a short 

 distance across a low ridge from a curve of Maizebeck, the stream 

 which flows into the Tees just below the Caldron Snout, one branch 

 of which forms for some distance the boundary between West- 

 moreland and North Yorkshire. Along the foot of the steep 

 hiU-escarpment facing west, runs the great Pennine Fault, by 

 which the new red sandstone is brought into immediate proximity 

 with the older beds of the carboniferous limestone, the millstone 

 grit, coal measures and magnesian limestone being entirely lost at 

 the surface. 



Very little has been placed on record about the botany of thi3 

 part of the Pennine range. Mr. Leach and Miss Heelis, of Appleby, 

 have worked it, and the former has recently written a paper in the 

 Naturalist on the plants of the whole Appleby district, which it ia 



