300 WEST : LOCALITIES FOR WEST RIDING PLANTS. 



Ornithopus perpusillus L. This is fine in old quarries E. of 

 Doncaster. 



Poterium sanguisorba L. is one of the commonest plants on 



Hawkswick Ciouder, Wharfe drainage. It is also common from 



Skipton to Malham. 

 Alchemilla alpina L. descends below i,ooo ft. at Cautley Spout ; 



certainly to 800 ft. 

 Potentilla procumbens Sibth. I gathered fine specimens of this 



at Greenfield, in August 1880. 

 Comarum palustre L. is plentiful in Malham Tarn Bog. 

 Geum intermedium Ehrh. is common in great variety between 



Bell Busk and Airton. I have gathered it also in Heaton 



woods. 



Geum rivale L. is fairly abundant about Esholt, quite away from 

 the river. 



Dryas OCtopetala L. This was as abundant as ever in its old 

 station in 1887 ; my sons and I saw hundreds of flowers. 



Ly thrum salicaria L. I have seen specimens of this from Helks 

 Wood, Ingleton, gathered by Messrs. Soppitt and Butterfield. 



Epilobium roseum Schreb. I gathered several fine plants of this 

 a few years ago at Frizinghall, in waste ground. 



Epilobium tetragonum L., mentioned (and properly bracketed) 

 from Bingley, was given under the collective name of Bentham's 

 Flora ; the plant was E. obscurum Schreb. 



Epilobium alsinifolium Vill. comes down to about 800 ft. at 

 Cautley Spout. 



Myriophyllum spicatum L. I have seen very fine plants of this 

 species in the pools at Goole. 



Myriophyllum alterniflorum DC. This is abundant in Austwick 

 Beck above Wharfe, between Moughton Fell and Ingleborough, 

 as well as in Dale Beck, towards Chapel-le-Dale. 



Hippuris vulgaris L. This plant is in plenty in the ditches of 

 ^Malham Tarn Bog, at 1,250 ft. I noticed it in the stream 

 between Hambleton and Bishop's Wood, and mentioned its 

 occurrence on the occasion of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 meeting there in 1878. 



Sedum villosum L. occurs on shales on ascending Baugh Fell 

 from Hawes Junction. 



Saxifraga hypnoides L. This occurs plentifully at about the 

 highest elevation given on the flat top of Ingleborough, and 



Naturalist, 



