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BACKHOUSE : TEESDALE BOTANY. 



Saxifraga nivalis 



S. Hii'cidiis^ second station / 1843. 



Polenionium cceridetivi 

 The first of these I found. The other tvv^o we 'visited': but they 

 had been previously discovered in these stations by a mining inspector. 



Alsine strida (Wahl.), 1844. — To my late friend, Mr. G. S. 

 Gibson, of Saffron Walden-, belongs the credit of this discovery. We 

 were together, and I believe saw the plant almost at the same 

 moment; but he first said 'What is that?' fixing my attention 

 specially upon it. 



Saxifraga icnibrosa v. crenata. — Two stations for this met with 

 during the same year (on Falcon Glints and near Winch Bridge — the 

 latter doubtless from seed washed down from some higher station). 

 They were apparently the last vestiges in Teesdale. It was probably 

 abundant there at one time ; at least so my father believed, from 

 what he heard in that region when he was young. Three new 

 stations for 61 Hirculus^ also Equisetwn praiense Ehrh. E. umhrosuni 

 Willd., were found during the same year, 1844., 

 Pyrola secunda L. 1847 or 1848. 

 Three stations. 



Poly gala austriaca idigiiiosa R- \ 

 Primida fa7'i7iosa v. acaidis 1 1852. 



Myosotis riipicola / 

 A second station for the Myosotis was found subsequently, I 

 think probably during 1853, though I cannot find a memorandum of 

 the exact date. Its position was 100 ft. or more lower, and some 

 miles distant from the original station on Micklefell. A third station 

 was discovered by my son, William Edward, and myself, many miles 

 distant from both the foregoing, in 1880. The plant is still tolerably 

 abundant in all the three localities. Prof Babington regards the 

 Teesdale plant as specifically identical with M. alpestris Schm. If 

 so, it is very distinct, as a variety, from any that I have seen in, or 

 obtained from. Continental sources. 



Viola arenaria DC., 1862, first discovery. I found a second 

 station, ten miles or more distant, many years later. It was growing 

 in this (second) station when again visited in 1880. 



Epilobium a7iagallidifolium Lam. \^ 

 Saxifr. Hirculus^ in 3 new stations on Micklefell [ 

 Equisetiim arvefise v. alpestre Wahl. / ' 



Cysiopteris alpina ) 

 Mr. Richard Potter, of York, first gathered the Cystopteris when 

 with me in Teesdale, where it is well developed and characteristic. 

 So far as I am aware, it is the only known British locality; the 'old 



Naturalist, 



