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about 3000 feet, gone to fruit ; Crepis lampsanoides 

 (Froel.). After spending a short time by the lake, I 

 strolled quietly back to Luchon, and so ended my last 

 day in the Pyrenees. Next morning early I took train 

 for Bordeaux via Tarbes and Mont Marsan, and from 

 thence returned through Paris to Liverpool, having 

 had a most enjoyable holiday. Now, if anyone, 

 induced by these few notes, be tempted to take a 

 holiday in the Pyrenees, I am certain they will not 

 regret it ; the scenery is lovely, the people and places 

 interesting, charges moderate, and as far as my 

 experience of the weather went, it could hardly have 

 been improved on ; lastly the botanist will find a mine 

 of wealth to work at, which will take him some time 

 to exhaust, and will afford him, I am sure, a most 

 enjoyable botanist's holiday in the Pyrenees. 



A. E. Lomax. 



THE FLORA OK THE BANKS. 



THE locality known as the Banks is pleasantly 

 situated near the river Ribble. Starting from 

 Clitheroe railway station, we go along the road lead- 

 ing to Waddington until near Brungerley Bridge, 

 then turn to the left along the footpath over Knunck 

 Knowles, noticing the pretty flowers of the vernal 

 whitlow grass (D. vulgaris) which are very abundant. 



Fig. 90. — Fcnestella plebeia. 



Behind the hill I have seen the barren blade of the 

 adder's tongue (O. vulgatum) but have not succeeded 

 in getting the fertile spike in this locality. From 

 here we are soon on the top of the quarry, and with 

 another step we are in the Banks. It is a pretty 

 place consisting of miniature hills and dales caused 

 by quarrying operations in former years. These 

 during four months are carpeted with treasures of 

 the floral world. Standing on one of these hills 

 the view is fine, green fields and pretty woodlands 

 stretching from the bank of the river, away to a 

 long line of moorland. 



Referring to page 14, "Geology of the Burnley 

 Coal-field," I find : " The Carboniferous limestone of 

 the Clitheroe anticlinal is concealed or very obscure 

 all along the northern border, and the many folds 

 into which it has been thrown, have rendered its 

 boundaries difficult to map with accuracy. On the 

 south of the arch, however, we have a succession 



Fig. 91. — Fcnestella nodulosa. 



Fig. 92. — Common Encrinite {Poteriocrhtus crassus). 



of very good rock exposures, which afford facilities 

 for its study. It contains two very distinct members. 

 The lower consists of very black and pure bituminous 

 limestone, and sometimes contains beds of black 

 calcareous shale. It is almost always very distinctly 

 and evenly bedded, and forms in its range a very 

 straight and very well-marked ridge, which com- 



