Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide
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160 ANCIENT AND<br />
PHYSICAL TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
fiotang.<br />
<strong>York</strong>shire is rich in botanical treasures. The Flora of<br />
the county,* contains a catalogue of 1002 flowering<br />
plants, of which three are peculiar to <strong>York</strong>shire, viz.<br />
Arabia hispida. Dryas octopetala. Juncus polycephalus.<br />
One, not peculiar to the county, flowers no where else in<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong>, viz.<br />
Cornus suecica.<br />
Twelve attain in <strong>York</strong>shire their southern limit, viz.<br />
Actsea spicata<br />
Saxifraga hirculus<br />
Potentilla fruticosa<br />
Gentiana verna<br />
Rosa sarmentacea<br />
Bartsia alpina<br />
Sedum villosum<br />
Rinanthus major<br />
Kibes petraeum<br />
Trientalis Europtea<br />
Saxiiraga umbrosa<br />
Toficldia palustris<br />
Thirty-seven attain in <strong>York</strong>shire their northern limit, viz.<br />
Anemone Pulsatilla<br />
Campanula rapunculoides<br />
Hutchinsia petrrea<br />
Scrophularia vernalis<br />
Dianthus Caryophyllns<br />
Galeobdolon luteum<br />
Silene Otites<br />
Stachys germanica<br />
Silene nutans<br />
Mentha acutifolia<br />
Arenaria tenuifolia<br />
Nepeta cataria<br />
Radiola Millegrana<br />
Teucrium Scordium<br />
Hypericum Androssemum<br />
Orobanche minor<br />
Trifolium ornithopodioides<br />
Hippophae rhamnoides<br />
Lathyrus latifolius<br />
Scheuchzeria palustris<br />
Rubus rhamnifolius<br />
Crocus nudiflorus<br />
Rubus leucostachys<br />
Ornithogalum umbellatum<br />
Rubus macrophyllus<br />
Typha angustifolia<br />
Rosa micrantha<br />
Acorus calamus<br />
Sedum dasyphyllum<br />
Lemna gibba<br />
Sedum sexangulare<br />
Lemna polyrrhiza<br />
Cotyledon umbilicus<br />
Cuscuta Epithymum<br />
Campanula patula<br />
Epipactis palustris<br />
Campanula hederacea<br />
<strong>York</strong>shire (observes Professor Philips, whose valuable<br />
<strong>and</strong> volumnious work, illustrative of the geology of this<br />
district, contains all the information a student can desire<br />
on the subject,) is one of the few counties of Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
which are defined by natural boundaries. On the west it<br />
* See the admirable work of Henry Raines.