EAST YORKSHIRE BOTANICAL NOTES IN I906. 3OI 



found near the River Hull, this strange plant is a hybrid 

 between them. For other plants, although very significant 

 and instructive, one can only claim new stations, and perhaps 

 the best of these is Astragalus danicus which was found at 

 the Driffield excursion on 16th June, growing on the canal 

 banks. Mr. R. H. Philip was the first to note the plant east 

 of the Wolds, viz. at Brandesburton (Coneygarth). Since 

 then one of your recorders discovered it on the roadside 

 gravelly hillocks between the Sykes Monument and the 

 village of Garton-on-the-Wolds. 



Yet another locality for the Bee Orchis has been added to 

 our list by the secretary, Mr. T. Stainforth. This is not far 

 from the western-most extension of our Hull Docks and on 

 the Humber bank ! 



The Autumn Crocus was this year not only known at 

 South Dalton, but also by the River Ouse near Barlby, 

 where also grew great quantities of Pimpinella magna and 

 Campamda glomerata, together with a few spikes of C. 

 latifolia. 



The plants at Skipwith were the usual ones — and deserve 

 mentioning, for the time may arrive and at no distant date, 

 when all will have vanished before the plough. Hypericum 

 elodes, Drosera rotundifolia , Rhanmus Catharticas (in red 

 and black berries), Salix argentea, Stellaria palustris, and 

 Gentiana Pneumonanlhe. The sight of the last as it ex- 

 panded its deep blue Campanulate corollce in the brilliant sun- 

 shine of September 1906, and, dotted as it was in profusion 

 amongst the grass and heather, over acres of the Skipwith 

 Common, was a sight such as one gazes very seldom upon, 

 even in a life time, and which, once seen can never be 

 forgotten. 



One of our corresponding members, Miss Piercy of Tib- 

 thorpe, on the Wolds, sent for our inspection, plants of 

 Pyrola minor, which she had found in a wood last July, 

 not far from her residence. Previously this plant was 

 known in very few localities in the East Riding of Yorkshire. 



Aira precox, a tiny grass, was first seen on our coast 

 at Flamborough Head, at the excursion of the Y.N.U. on 

 Whitsuntide last. 



The Sedge, Carex remota, not at all common in our vice 

 county, was found growing in two or three very big and 

 graceful tufts in Beverley Long Lane, in the beginning of 

 June. 



Mr. Philip and the writer had a most wonderful vision 

 of floral profusion in Carey Chalk pit on 18th August 1906. 



