Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union: Annual Report, 1914. 43 
from material sent to him from Hawes by Mr. Jas. Smith, 
Borrowby, Thirsk. 
The rare earth-mite, Ottonia ramosa George, has been met 
with on Cupwith Hill, Slaithwaite, and a form, O. ignota, new 
to science, from Holme Moss, was described and figured by Dr. 
George in The Naturalist for October, in which journal also 
during the year have appeared two papers with full data dealing 
with the Arachnida of Yorkshire (vide March and August issues). 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Mr. J. F. Robinson writes :—As early as Easter this year 
those interested in the Phanerogamic flora of Yorkshire had a 
good time at the well-attended Field Meetings at Knaresborough, 
where many of the early spring flowers were noted. The promise 
of spring in the cases of such as Blackthorn and Bullace has been 
well filled in fruitage this autumn. The meetings at Filey at 
Whitsuntide enabled the enthusiastic group of phanerogamists 
who met there to make very interesting and exhaustive investi- 
gations into the flora of Primrose Valley, now almost entirely 
denuded of Primula acaulis Linn., the Flat Cliff and the shore. 
The reports published in The Naturalist for July and August 
are evidence. Associated in a slight degree with the Filey 
Meeting may be mentioned the re-discovery near Hull of the 
rather uncommon sedge, Carex axillaris Good. 
At Askrigg also, the botanists had a fine opportunity of doing 
good work among the more or less sub-montane forms of phanero- 
gams. A month or two of very dry weather usually clears off 
completely such early flowering forms like Thalaspi occitanum, and 
failure to see this plant is scarcely to be wondered at. The same 
thing has been noticed in the case of Draba Thaliana, Teesdalia 
nudicaulis, etc. It is pleasing, however, to note that Primula 
farinosa and Habenaria albida are still frequent and were seen 
near Askrigg. A full report of the Eskdale excursions appeared 
in the October issue of The Naturalist. 
Mr. C. A. Cheetham adds :—This summer has again been a 
dry one, but has not given the same results as last year. 
The Hawthorn, Hazel and Mountain Ash are full of fruit 
whereas last year they were barren, and the Ash is now without 
the plenty of last year. This is not merely a local feature for in 
Donegal the same things were noted. 
This year Habenaria viridis was sought unsuccessfully in a 
meadow which last year had it in quantity—the same remark 
may be made on Eptipactts palustris, though in a less marked 
degree ; these things are well-known to field workers, but the 
reasons are left unexplained just as the plant associations of the 
ecologist were known but never recorded and causes enquired 
into until the new study brought our laboratories into touch 
1915 Jan. 1. 
