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SOME RARER PLANTS OF BOWLAND. 



JOSEPH F. PICKARD, 

 Leeds. 



During the years 1893 to 1899 I have been working- this district, 

 which is one of the least known in Yorkshire. It lies from 

 Bowland Knotts on the east, to the Trough of Bowland on the 

 west, and the district explored is in the Yorkshire portion of the 

 Hodder valley and neighbouring- fells, ceasing at Whitewell, 

 where the river makes a remarkable bend to the south-east. 



There still remains much work to be done in this wide district, 

 and I believe a much larger list of its Flora could be made, if 

 time could be spent by some botanists in the little known valleys 

 of Whitendale, Brennand, Hareden, Langden, and Bowland 

 Trough. I hope the Y.N.U. will deem it worth their while 

 before long to arrange for another excursion for a length of at 

 least two days, making their centre, say, Dunsop Bridg-e. 



Most of the plants, all the critical ones, have been seen by 

 Mr. F. Arnold Lees. 



Thalictrum flavum. Road-side near the Heaning-, and by the 



Heaning Brook, scarce. 

 Caltha minor. Two specimens in April 1895, 011 Crag Stone 



Moor, behind Stonefold. 

 Trollius europaeus. Frequent in moist meadows and woods 



on the limestone. I have heard one or two residents at 



Newton call this plant ' Publicans.' 

 Meconopsis cambrica. One plant, Dunnow Wood, near the 



lower path, 1895. Gone since? 

 Arabis thaliana. Dry, old walls, near Newton Bridg-e, 1898. 



Scarce and only occurs where very dry. 

 Cardatnine amara. Frequent in damp plantations near Newton. 

 Helianthemum vulgare. Dunnow Cliff, flowering sparinglv 



and only found over about an acre of the cliff top. 

 Viola hirta. Very common on Dunnow Cliff. Occurs also at 



intervals on banks near the Hodder. 

 Stellaria nemo rum. Frequent in mountainous woods. 

 Arenaria verna. Very sparingly on rocks of old lead mine, 



Ashnot Farm, near Storth. 

 Sagina nodosa. Newton Fell, by the Clitheroe Road, and in 



most marshy places in the valley. 



1901 February i. 



