12 Resume of Field Meetings. 
The fortieth meeting was at BARTON-ON-HUMBER on 
May 29th, 1904. This meeting was specially arranged to verify 
and obtain further specimens of Alopecurus bulbosus, Gouan, a 
species peculiar to unenclosed estuarine alluvium. It was 
found in plenty on the river side in South Ferriby. The 
flora of a wide series of soils was taken off. Many aliens 
were found in the lower and middle chalk quarries, Lactuca 
muralis being the best native species. Helix nemoralis proved 
almost absent; while Helix cantiana could only be found on 
Urtica dioica and Barbarea vulgaris. 
The forty-first meeting was at HOLYWELL on June 24th. 
The following plants were found :— Ranunculus parviflorus, 
Alyssum calycinum, Astragallus glycyphyllos, Hippocrepis comosa, 
Geum intermedium, Alchemilla vulgaris, Viburnum lantana, Cnicus 
eviophorus, Speculavria hybrida, Anagallis carulea, Gentiana 
amarella, Lithospermum officinale, Echium vulgare, Atropa bella- 
donna, Hyoscyamus niger, Linaria elatina, L. spuria, Veronica 
polita, Melampyrum pratense, Scirpus caricis, &c., in all, three 
hundred species and varieties. The soils were very varied, and 
resulted in the largest list ever made at a Union meeting. 
The forty-second meeting was at SPILSBY on July 28th. On 
the Spilsby sandstone the following species were taken :— 
Potentilla argentea, Salvia verbenaca, Ballota nigra flove albo, 
Poa compressa, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum, A. trichomanes. On 
the chalky boulder clay Paris quadvifolia, Pimpinella saxifraga 
dissecta flove voseo, Sanicula euvopcea, Calamintha clinopodium. 
On the Kimeridge clay Silene cucubalus puberula. Helix memoralis 
tenuis was taken by Mr. Stow, and at the meeting the same 
member exhibited the albino variety of Helix lapicida. 
The forty-third meeting at RIPPINGALE Station, on the rst 
of September, was a failure on account of the weather. About 
two hundred plants were noted, but all were species quite 
common on similar soils in other parts of the county. ‘This is 
a district which must be visited again. 
The forty-fourth Field meeting of the Union was held at 
LOUTH on Thursday, June 1st, 1905. Under the leadership of Mr. 
Carter, the chalk and boulder clay pits of Elkington, and the 
chalk quarries at Boswell and Fotherby, where the upper chalk 
