124 Field Meetings, 1906. 
The dull day was not congenial to insects so few were seen 
Small Copper, Small Heath, Cinnabar, -and on the grasses and 
rushes the pupe of Five Spot Burnet were numerous. 
The fifty-first meeting of the Union was held July 31st, at 
DUNSBY Wood near RIPPINGALE. 
From a botanists point of view the visit was a success. The 
President and the Rev. W. W. Mason had thoroughly worked 
Dunsby about 12 years ago and little remained to do but verify 
their facts, nearly every species that they had formerly recorded 
were rediscovered, Vicia sylvatica being the only important excep- 
tion. Anglica sylvestvis was not so common as formerly. The 
rare grass Agvopyyon caninum was again in evidence, Calamagrostis 
epigeios was in its old place. Campanula trochelium was all-over 
the Chalky Boulder Clay, along with Carex sylvatica in the wood, 
Chelidonium majus was only found in Rippingale village, along 
with Sedum album, Centranthus vubex and Matricaria Parthenium. 
Cornus sanguinea and Euonymus were local. Cnicus acaulis 
sporadic, and C. eriophorus very rare, only one plant was found on 
this occasion as on the last. The wood form of C. palustris was 
common enough. Corylus was covered with nuts, and the 
squirrels were there waiting for them. Dipsacus sylvestris was 
taken by a ditch on the Cornbrash. The Epipactis again could 
not be found in flower, but careful reconsideration of all circum- 
stances makes it out to be media, Evythraea centauvium made the 
wood bright along with the inconspicuous flowers of Circaea 
lutetiana and the fruit of Fragaria vesca. Festuca elatiov was on 
the Cornbrash. Galium Apavine was unusually rare, but G. 
Witheringii conspicuous in the wood and ditches. Hypericum 
perfovatum was on the clay and the variety angustifolium on the 
Cornbrash. Leontodon hivtus and hispidus were also found on the 
more solid or lighter soils in the same way. Malva moschata was 
on the Boulder Clay where it was brashy as well as on the Corn- 
brash. Melampyrum pratense was found just outside of the wood, 
but not in flower. C:nanthe fistulosa was common in the isolated 
field ponds. Pimpinella major onthe Cornbrash. The Polygalaon 
both sides was typica, The hybrid Potentilla veptans x silvestris” 
