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Hieracium Friesii Hartm. (Flora, No. 517, pp. 309-10). 

 Ingleborough (coll. F. A. Lees) ; F. J. If anbury in Journ. Bot., 

 1888, xxvi, 205. Mr. Hanbury has identified some plant I sent 

 to him, under another name (probably as gothician or broad- 

 leaved trideiitatwn)^ as being Hartmann's friesii^ about which 1 

 know no more than that Nyman in his Conspectus places the name 

 twelfth in his arrangement, in the Umbellata group, as a synonym of 

 H. rigidiim Htn. The Ingleborough and Settle scars, carefully 

 reinvestigated by patient observers resident in their vicinity, would 

 doubtless add much to our knowledge of the precise names, accord- 

 ing to the modern lights, of the species occurring there, and their 

 range of variation. Information has reached me of new localities 

 for both H. aiigliaim and H. gibsoni on the Settle hills, whilst 

 Gibson's maculate-leaved Hawkweed has turned up on Penhill, 

 Witton, and other spots in Upper Wensleydale (Percival, spns. !), and 

 has been known to me in Summer Lodge Gill near Gunnerside in 

 Swaledale for a couple of years ; and in the present transition state 

 of our hawkvveed-knowledge any species is worth the trouble of 

 carefully gathering and preserving, with full notes, made in the field, 

 of colour of styles, phyllary and peduncle character, etc., however 

 ' common ' the collector may himself imagine it to be. 



Lamium album L. (Flora, No. 643, p. 363). Mr. W. A. 

 Shuffrey avers this to grow near Hesleden (Heseltine) at 900 ft. 

 elevation. This will be, I think, quite the highest point to which it 

 ascends, naturally, in Yorkshire. I do not mean to say it would not 

 exist on the Malham Tarn plateau at 1,200 ft., if put there, but it 

 seems a species that thins out very rapidly as the warm sheltered 

 hedge-banks of the lowlands are left behind. 



Chenopodium bonus-henricus L. (Flora, No. 691, p. 385). 

 Grows plentifully at Halton Gill, 1,000 ft.; W. A. Shuffrey. Surely 

 planted, or out-thrown from farm garden, there ! 



Erythraea centaurium Pers. (No. 547). At quite 800 ft. in 

 Hawkswick Wood ; W. A. Shuffrey. Yes, the 600 ft. limit given in 

 Flora (p. 324) was a slip for 900 ft. I have a note, I find, of having 

 seen it myself on Arncliffe or Hawkswick 'clouder,' along with 

 Poteriuin sangnisorba, Gymnadenia conopsea, etc., at fully 1,000 ft., 

 i.e., clearly into the super-agrarian zone. 



Ophrys muscifera Huds. (Flora, No. 809, p. 430). Near 

 Arncliffe, at 800 ft. ; W. A. Shuffrey. Yes, both this and the 

 Narcissus mentioned below might be regarded as going quite up to 

 the limit of the mid-agrarian zone in our Yorkshire latitude, in other- 

 wise suitable spots, of course. 



Naturalist, 



