6 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



Castle Eden: Joseph Backhouse, Esq., Consett Hall; and G. W. 

 Stable, Esq., Jesmond. 



The Sixth Field Meeting was appointed to be held at Hartle- 

 pool, September 5th. The weather was wet, and only two or three 

 members attended. They proceeded as far as Castle Eden, and 

 there, being joined by one or two more, spent the day with the 

 Rev. H. B. Tristram; walking in the dene, and examining Mr. 

 Tristram's collection of rare birds, and enjoying his hospitality. 

 Rowland Burdon, Esq., Castle Eden, was elected a member of the 

 Club. 



To Mr. Storey, our assiduous Secretary, and to Mr. Thomas 

 Belt, I mainly owe the botanical part of the reports of our summer's 

 excursions just concluded. To Mr. Storey, again, I am indebted 

 for the following interesting communication, relative to the pro- 

 ceedings of our botanical friends, in the intervals of the meetings 

 of the Club :— 



" During the past year, very considerable attention has been 

 paid to the botany of this immediate vicinity. Within a circuit 

 of five miles, round Newcastle, the following species have been 

 noticed, and the habitats recorded : Ononis spinosa, Peplis Portula, 

 Silauspratensis; Daucus Carota, plentiful; Pulicaria dysenterica, 

 Lycopus Europceus, Mentha rubra, Sm. Potamogeton perfoliatus, 

 P. pectinatus, Sparganium natans, Typha latifolia, and, in con- 

 siderable abundance, T. angustifolia ; Scirpus lacuslris, Nastur- 

 tium terrestre, and Myriophyllum spicatum have been met with 

 near Blaydon ; and, in Ravensworth woods, CalUtriche peduncu- 

 lata, DC. and Quercus intermedia, Don. both new to the Flora of 

 Durham. By the side of the Team, Scrophularia aquatica, of 

 luxuriant growth ; some of the plants being about six feet in height. 

 On the banks of the Blyth, about fourteen miles from Newcastle, I 

 collected very beautiful examples of Juncus maritimus, and in the 

 same locality, Fceniculum officinale, a species which had been intro- 

 duced in ballast, was growing in great quantity. On the alluvial 

 deposits of the Blyth, T observed, what will probably prove to be 

 the Zostera angustifolia, Reich. ; but, as the season appeared to be 

 too far advanced for procuring fruit, the plant could not be, with 

 certainty, determined. 



