BOTANY.— 
Flowering Plants. — Mr. J. F. Pickard writes that there is much scope for the 
botanist and a large extent of comparatively unworked ground, especially in the 
northern and eastern portions of the dale. In some of the sparsely-wooded gills 
about Slaidburn and under Bowland Knotts possibilities are great, and it is a 
curious phenomenon that where the Yoredale shales border on the grit under 
Whelpstone Crag and about the Halstead beck, plants of such strongly contrasted 
soil- preference as Cytisus, Convallaria^ and Polypodiuf/t dryopUris grow very near 
each other. 
The head of Whitendale is but little known botanically and in it there is ground 
suitable for some montane rarities. Filmy-fern needs looking for in the doughs, 
as it has been found in West Lancashire in similar places not many miles away. 
Stags' horn Club-moss, locally known as "Shepherd's crook," grows on the stony 
slopes, and Parsley Fern is plentiful in one locaHty. There is at least one bush of 
Juniper, so rare on grit, in Whitendale, and on Botton Head Fell Rubus 
chamccmorus abounds. 
Wahlenbergia hederacea, so very local in Yorkshire, occurs on the banks of 
the stream nearer Dimsop, and at Sykes, along with Drosera roiundifolia, and near 
about the shooting lodge there is apparently a little limestone and one or two fir 
plantations, where some useful exploration might be done. 
One of the most characteristic plants of Bowland is Andromeda^ which is found 
in good plenty in many localities, and ascends to near 1500 feet near the "Trough," 
but always occurs on the level mosses, where also is likely ground for Alalaxis, 
hitherto sought for in vain I Listera cordata is known profusely in more than one 
station, the two Vacciniums, V. viiis-idcca and V. oxycoccos flowering abundantly, 
and on Waddington Fell (to the South) there is a patch of Trienialis, amongst the 
bilberry but producing smaller blooms than usual. 
A form of Caliha minor, I think rather approaching the species C. radicanSy 
was discovered by myself above Stonefold in moor bogs, in 1895, but as two 
specimens only were preserved, and it has not since been re-discovered, any fresh 
information about it would be valuable. 
About Newton, on the limestone, Trollius, Thalictrittn Jlavum (rare among 
the hills), Arenaria verna. Genista tinctoria, Helianthetnum vulgare, Saxifraga 
granulata, Carduus hetcrophylliis, Primida farinosa^ Menyanthes, Epipaclis 
palustris, Botrychinm, and Ophioglossiim^ may be met with, and in wet meadows 
near The Heaning an Orchis ericetorutn and O. incarnata, with intermediate forms, 
any fresh gatherings of which would be acceptable to Rev. E. F. Linton. 
The narrow low-lying creeks, locally termed the Old Hodder, between Slaid- 
burn and Newton, need well working. They have produced a number of usually 
more lowland species, and Starganiioii simplex with narrower leaves and pedicels, 
possibly a liybrid, has been found here. Viola carpattca Borbas (Teste Dr. Drabble), 
an inland form approaching V. curiisii and known previously to Messrs. Wheldon 
and Wilson in West Lanes., was first found by me in Old Hodder as a V. tricolor 
form in r894, and seen again in fair quantity last summer. 
The Dunnow Estate, with its deep scar and wooded scree slope, contains many 
local species, Potentilla alpesiris being one of the most unusual. There is a large 
coarse form of Agrimony with more resinous-scented foliage and likely to produce 
in autumn twin-seeded nutlets, which grows on the south slope of the Lesser 
Dunnow and needs further examination. Verbascum thapsus gxo^s handsomely on 
the scars, and Sediim fabaria is in rich profusion in almost inaccessible places, 
along with the bright green fronds ol Hartstongue and numerous bushes of 
Rhamnus cathatticus and Euonymus. 
It should be added that Miss Peel, of Knowlmere Manor, has made many 
interesting finds as additions to the local list. Also that any new records will Ije 
•acceptable for the forthcoming supplement to Lee's Flora of West Yorkshire. 
