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^lOSSES and LIVERWORTS. 



Addition to Baugh Fell Mosses. Hyp)iuin JluiUuis, Gr. 

 exannulatiini var. pinnatuin Boul., forma acuta Saiiio. I found 

 this rare moss on the shoulder of Bausjh Fell, by the Rawthey 

 river, and omitted to record it in my paper. In the ' British 

 Moss Flora' it is recorded from Ben Lavvers by Hunt, 1865, and 

 Holt, 1880; and Mr. G. Webster, of York, has found it near 

 Widdale Head, on the south-east of Baugh Fell. It is a distinct 

 and interesting" moss as forming" the connecting link between 

 var. piiuiatuni Boul. and var. hrachydicfvon Ren. — W. Ingham, 

 York. 



Hepatics New to Yorkshire. Scapania rosacea (Corda). — 

 Tliis 1 found on the bank of the river Tees, from High Force to 

 Wince Bridge, in June 1897. It was in my herbarium as a small 

 form of .S". cequiloba : but, with fuller knowledge of this genus, 

 it turns out to be S. rosacea. Herr Kaalaas, ot Christiania, savs 

 that plants resembling mine in all essential characters grow 

 generally on somewhat dry and shaded rocks in the neighbour- 

 hood of Christiania. Kantia submersa Arnell. This I found in 

 the Vale of Pickering, south of Gc^athland, on i8th August 1902. 

 It grew in a wet, boggy place among Sphagna and the bog form 

 of the hepatic, Scapaiiia nemorosa. — Wm. Ingham, York. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



The first field meeling" of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union for this year 

 will be at Cowthorpe on the gth May. Arrang"ements are being' made and 

 it is hoped that all who can will be present as the district is an exceptionalh" 

 interesting" one. 



The following excursions have been arranged by the Yorkshire Xatur.alists' 

 Union during" the present summer : — 



For York Mid W. — Cowthorpe, Saturday, 9th May. 



For York S.E. — Filey, Whit-Monday, ist June. 



For York N.E. — Goathland, Saturday, 27th June. 



For York N.W.— Bowes, week end, ist to 3rd August. 



For York S.W. — Wharncliffe Craggs, Thursday, 3rd September. 

 The Fungus Foray will be held in the Helmsley district, from 26th 

 September to ist October. 



In the March 'Entomologists' Record' Mr. F. H. Day records Pselaplius 

 dresdensis for Cumberland. 



At a recent meeting of the Linnean Society Mr. John Clayton expressed 

 the opinion that the age of the Cowthorpe Oak, near Wetherby, had been 

 greatly exaggerated, and that 500 years is the extreme limit of its agfe. 



In the ' Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Rochdale Literary and 

 Scientific Society ' reference is made to the approaching" completion oi the 

 town's museum, when several collections in charge of the Society will be 

 handed over. 



1903 May I. 



