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were also found. The best beetle taken was Donacia bidens. 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., took Cychriis rostratus at Bull- 

 clifife Wood. Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., noticed the almost entire 

 defoliation of hazel trees in BuUcliffe Wood by various species of 

 geometer larvse, and remarked that it was a question upon which 

 there was some speculation as to how the hungry caterpillars would 

 procure sufficient food to maintain themselves until they are full 

 grown. He also recorded the great abundance of Abraxas idmata 

 on the wing in BuUcliffe Wood. 



For the Botanical Section, Mr. P. Y. Lee, Phanerogamic 

 Secretary, stated that the day had been very successful and that 

 most of the plants put down in the circular with several other 

 uncommon ones, had been observed — one at least of these, a sedge 

 (which was left for after determination), being an addition to the 

 flora of the Dewsbury district, while another sedge, almost sure to 

 turn out as Carex fulva Good, (being yet too young for safe deter- 

 mination) will be in that event also an addition to the local flora. 

 Out of a total of nearly 600 species, sub-species, and varieties 

 known in the district, about 185 in flower or fruit had been noted 

 during the day in Coxley Valley and Wood, at Stocks Moor, Elmley 

 Woodhouse, and Bretton Park. Barbarea stricta Andrz., the 

 uncommon sub.-sp. of B. vulgaris, was gathered, but hardly as 

 typical as noticed in former years. Among the best plants observed 

 were : — Nasturtium pahistre DC, Viola odorata L., Polygala vulgaris 

 sub.-sp. P. depressa Wend., Saponaria officinalis L., Vicia angustifolia 

 var. V. Bobartii Forst., Hydrocotyle vulgaris \a.,Afyrrhis odorata Scop., 

 CEnanthe crocata L., Adoxa Moschatellina L., Campanula latifolia L., 

 Primula vulgaris Huds., Hottonia palustris L., Myosotis versicolor 

 Reichb., Lamium album F., Veronica arvensis L., Plantago media L., 

 Salix pentandra L. (very fragrant and with fine male catkins), Listera 

 ovata Br., Scirpus sylvaticus L., and Acorus Calamus L. The best 

 work was done among the Sedges, the following being found : — Carex 

 muricata, C. remota, C. glauca, C. panicea, C. sylvatica, and C. hirta 

 (in a new locality : Elmley Woodhouse), besides the sedge already 

 cited as likely to be C. fulva, and the one unnamed (since examined 

 by Mr. Arthur Bennett, of Croydon, and named by him as Carex 

 chrysites Link. = C. CEderi Auct. Angl. (non Ehrh.) and C flava L. 

 var. cyperoides Marsson) — added to the local flora as a result of the 

 Union's visit. In ferns, Nephrodium spimilosum Desv. was seen in 

 its old habitat, in Coxley Wood. 



Mr. J. W. Davis, F.L.S., F.G.S., reported that the geologists had 

 had a very uneventful day, so far as their science was concerned. 

 Beyond a few exposures, showing current-bedded sandstones and 



Naturalist, 



