OBSERVATIONS. 



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We surely cannot cull this ''abun- 

 dant." 



It is evident, tlien, that we cannot 

 really become aquainted with the 

 Flora of our portion of Britain or 

 even of this great County of York by 

 means of these " British Floras." It 

 is by means of local lists, and local 

 lists alone, that any real knowledge 

 of the distribution of x^lants can be 

 obtained. 



I shall make no apology then for 

 troubling you with the result of our 

 Saturday's tour, deeming what I 

 have said a sufficient excuse for so 

 doing. 



I may add that we found many 

 plants besides those named in this 

 list ; but I thought it unadvisable to 

 insert them here, as they seem to 

 be common over a very large district. 



The following is a list of plants 

 collected, excluding the more com- 

 mon : — 



Sagittaria sagittifolia. Canal near 

 Walton; plentiful. 



OrnitliopiisiJerpusillus. A few plants ; 

 very local. Kailway side. 



Trifoluim procumhens. Bather local ; 

 Canal side, Walton. Plentiful. 



Polygala vulgaris. 



Melampyrum pratense. Howe Park ; 

 plentiful. 



Hypericum humifusum. Few plants ; 

 Eailway side, near Wakefield. 



Potamogeton natans. Barnsley canal. 



Pianunculus aquatilis. New Miller 

 dam. 



Veronica motttana. 



Alisma plantago. Barnsley canal. 



Skerardia arvensis. Abundant ; 

 New Miller dam. 



Asperula ofZoraia."Abundant; Howe 

 Park. 



Spergula arvensis. 



Parietaria officinalis. New Miller 

 dam. 



Sanicula europea. Howe Park. 



ClierophyUum sylvestre. 



Conium maculatum. 



Orchis maculata. 



FERNS. 



Lastrcea Filix mas. -j Everywhere 



L. spinulosa, \ abundant. 



Athyrium Filix-fcemina. Howe 

 Park. 



AspleniumTncliomanes. New Miller 

 dam ; a very few plants. 



Aspjlenium Ruta-muraria. Do. 



I have found a very few plants of 

 Polygonatum multijiora, in a wood, 

 near Lofthouse ; and on a railway 

 embankment at the same place, a 

 few plants oiPolypodium Dryopteris.— 

 J. Hepworth, Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



The Hawfinch Breeding in Nor- 

 folk. — A splendid pair of Haw- 

 finches, Fringilla coccothraustes, in 

 full summer dress, was shot on the 

 2nd instant at Weston, a village 

 about eight miles from Norwich ; 

 from information I received they 

 bred and reared their young in that 

 neighbourhood, the nest being placed 

 in a thick hawthorn hedge a few 



