PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



20 1st Ordin"a.rt M^EETmo, 8th December, 1897, at St. Albans. 



William Whipaker, B.A., F.KS., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. DonaW Harvey Attfield. M.A., M.B., CM., D.P.H., 

 Ashlands, Watford ; Mr. Thomas Morgan Harvey, Bohun Lodge, 

 East Barnet ; Miss Geraldiue Keating, Cannon Mill Cottage, 

 Cheshara ; Mr. George Pearson, Brickendonbury, Hertford ; and 

 Mr. Henry J. Worssam, Marlborough House, St. Albans, were 

 proposed for membership of the Society. 



The following paper was read : — 



" British Parasitic Flowering Plants, with a List of the Species." 

 By James Saunders. {Transactions, Vol. X, pp. 44-48.) 



The paper was illustrated by specimens of the parasitic flowering 

 plants which were described by the author. 



Mr. a. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., drew attention to an interesting paper 

 on the distribution of the oxlip in Britain read before the Linnean 

 Society by Mr. Miller Christy.* It was stated that the oxlip 

 occurred within two sharply -defined areas in the eastern counties, 

 one of which included small portions of Hertfordshire east and 

 north-east of Bishop's Stortford. Our county was thus only 

 affected to a slight degree. Mr. Gibbs gave some of Mr. Christy's 

 conclusions and referred to the care with which his investigations 

 had been conducted. 



A map showing the areas in which the oxlip occurs, kindly lent 

 by Mr. Christy, was exhibited, 



Mr. Hopkixsox remarked that with the exception of the alkane'' 

 (Anchiisa officinalis) which had lately been found at Barley by the 

 Rev. J. Frome -Wilkinson, but was merely a casual, the oxlip was 

 the only species which had been added to the county flora since the 

 publication by the Society of Pryor's ' Flora of Hertfordshire.' 



* " Primula elutior in Britain : its Distribution, Peculiarities, Hybrids, and 

 Allies." 'Journ. Linn. Soc.,' Botany, vol. xxxiii, pp. 172-201, pi. xi 

 (1897). Distribution in Herts, p. 184. 



VOL. X. — PART VII. 



