EAST YORKSHIRE BOTANICAL NOTES IN 1904. 



THE usual vigilance in the search for plants and for 

 fuller knowledge of their distribution and associations 

 has not at all slackened during the past year, 

 notwithstanding the fact that a special work has been 

 published dealing with the Flora of the East Riding. Rather, 

 we have many indications that certain of our anticipations 

 of its publication have been and are being fulfilled. For 

 example, there is quite an increase in the number of corres- 

 pondents furnishing new records of plants, giving manuscript 

 notes of information that previously had been locked away 

 from the compiler's gaze. The additions to the said "Flora," 

 owing to the above causes, and also as reward to our diligent 

 search in the fields, number something like a score of species. 

 Some of these were included in the addenda, of E.R. plants 

 in the last number of our proceedings. 



For much help rendered, our thanks are due to Rev. W. 

 C. Hey, of West Ayton, who sends us interesting plants from 

 the Filey district, to Rev. E. A. Woodruffe Peacock, for 

 determination of certain alien grasses, to Messrs. Arthur 

 Bennett, F.L.S., H. Stuart Thompson, F.L.S., P. Fox Lee, 

 Miss Jackson, Thearne Hall, and the Rev. F. H. Woods, 

 Rector of Bainton, for various important pieces of assistance 

 in the Botanical Department. 



The subject of Botany has been kept well to the front at 

 the Hull Museum, which is largely due to the practical efforts 

 of Miss Jackson and Mr. William Brumby who have gathered 

 and contributed several hundred species of plants during 

 the season. This is a very practical illustration of how 

 propagandist work may be done in any branch of Natural 

 Science. 



Our Phanerogamic additions are chiefly of alien plants, 

 some dozen or so of new species having been added from the 

 Hull Docks. 



The sedge Carex paradoxa has been found in a new 

 situation, namely, on the north bank of Leven Canal, midway 

 between Leven and the River Hull. 



Two important cryptogamic additions have been made, 

 namely Moonioort from fields at Hornsea Mere (where it has 

 not been seen since 100 years ago, O.B.G.) and the Marsh 



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