LEES : WEST YORKSHIRE FLORA. 



Epipactis palustris Crantz. (Flora, No. 817, p. 434). A fresh 

 specimen sent August i6th by Mr. R. E. Leach, from Ingleton — 

 ' Both sides Beesley's Woods ' — to show it still exists in that neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Narcissus pseudo-narcissus L. (Flora, No. 823, p. 438). 

 Plentifully at about 900 ft. near Arnclifife ; JV. A. Shuffrey. This 

 doubles our previous information as to its range. 



Colchicum autumnale L. (Flora, No. 841, p. 448). At 800 ft. 

 near Arncliffe ; W. A. Shuffrey. This is astonishingly high, though 

 clearly well within the upper limit of middle zone. Probably it 

 nowhere in England runs up higher, or as high, finding here in 

 Wharfedale-head the lime-soiled pasture and climatic protection it 

 needs, coexisting conditions which show it not to be a 'cold-fearer' 

 if in other respects a ' weak ' species. 



Asplenium adiantum-nigrum L. (Flora, No. 1006, p. 504). 

 An untypical non-fruiting frond sent from the Ingleton neighbourhood 

 by Mr. R. E. Leach, with somewhat the facies of robust Asplenium 

 pseudo-germanicujji Milde, turns out on inquiry to have been gathered 

 in Lancashire^ outside our Riding limit, on the road between Ingleton 

 and Kirkby Lonsdale. [I may here say that the first three miles of 

 this road, going from Ingleton, is in West Yorkshire, the next three 

 miles crosses that tongue of Lancashire which, here wedged in, forms 

 Leek Fell; and the last mile of the highway is in Westmorland.] 

 Ceierach officinaruni^ sent at the same time, is in the same case : it 

 was from a spot within Lancashire bounds ; whilst five other species — 

 Seduni tekphiujn, Daphne mezereon, Epipactis latifolia^ Eriophoruni 

 latifolium^ and Nephrodiuni aculeatiun var. lonchitidioides — were all 

 from Ingleton. 



Aspidium lonchitis Sw. A fresh specimen-frond just 

 beginning to fruit, has been sent me by Mr. R. E. Leach (since the 

 above lines were written). It was got off a scar or fell 'near Feizor 

 {not Moughton) on the right going from Austwick east, and the hill 

 faces Ellersbridge," which would be Oxenber Wood Scar, the eleva- 

 tion of which is under 1,000 ft. This seems a very low station — I 

 might write suspiciously low — but the plant is right. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum L. (Flora, No. 1028, p. 515). 

 Found as high as 1,100 ft. near Litton; W. A. Shuffrey. A con- 

 siderable extension of its West Yorkshire range : INIr. Baker gives its 

 upward limit for North Yorkshire at 150 yds., i.e., 450 ft. I have 

 seen it at 850 ft. at Hawes. 



Botrychium lunaria Sw. (Flora, No. 1029, p. 516). This 

 grows near Arncliffe ; W. A. Shuffrey. An addition for the Wharfe 



Oct. 1888. 



