not only in number but in rarity of species, will be noticed by the most cursory observer to predominate in that part of the district: In the future researches of botanists, they therefore recommend the investigation of the west and north-west of Northumberland,—a tract of country hitherto but slightly explored, and of course the most likely field for new discoveries: . They must not however expect, that even Cheviot and its surrounding hills will ever be found to vie with Teesdale, whose mountains are in a great measure composed of extensive limestone ridges, which are well known to be propitious to the growth of alpine plants.—Cheviot on the contrary is a porphyritic mountain, densely clothed to its summit with coarse grass and rushes, to the total exclusion of more delicate vegetables.[1]
The following habitats, which are given in Wallis's History of Northumberland, are worthy
- ↑ The herbage of Cheviot is composed of the following plants:—Scirpus caespitoses, called by the Shepherds Deer Hair; Juncus articulatus, Spart; Juncus quarrosus, Black Bent; Nardus stricta, White Bent; Ergophorum vaginatum—its leaves Ling, its flowers Moss.
