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Hole of Horcum and Goathland, and was pointed out to me by 
Miss Barker, of Scarborough, in 1904. Here it is strongly 
established, and extends for a distance of about one hundred 
yards in the heather. When re-visited in 1905 the plant seemed 
to have spread further down the hillside. 
(5) Mr. R. H. Barker pointed out to me a small patch of the 
plant nearer Scarborough than the Cross Cliff locality known to 
the Scarborough Field Naturalists. As the plant here is nearly 
extinct, being apparently smothered by other plants, I prefer 
not to give the precise position, but it is not the place mentioned 
by Mr. Baker as being near Hackness. 
(6) The plant was gathered some years ago near the head of 
Staindale, but I have not been on the hillside where it was found, 
and cannot say if it is still there. 
(7) Last October I was told it had been gathered on one of 
the slopes of Troutsdale by a Scarborough botanist. This 
locality seems in every way a suitable one for the plant, and I 
should not be surprised to hear it occurs in more than one spot. 
Thus the plant is well established on the moors between the 
coast and Newton Dale, and I should think there are probably 
several other localities besides the seven I have mentioned 
above. It may be grubbed up by collectors in some of the 
smaller patches, and so exterminated ; but it seems to me that 
it does not get killed off when the heather is burnt, as it occurs in 
places where this is done at intervals, and near the largest patch 
I have mentioned the heather has evidently been burnt more 
than once during the last twenty or thirty years. I have not, 
however, come across the Cornus on a recently-burnt patch of 
moor, so my opinion is open to contradiction by observers who 
have more chances of studying the plant than I have in occa- 
sional holiday trips to the Scarborough district. 
I was at Hawnby for three weeks this last summer, but did 
not meet with the plant on that part of the moors, though I 
was out on the hills nearly every day. 
I understand Mr. Gordon Home has a second edition of his 
book in the press at the present time, and that the statement 
referred to above has been corrected. 
—_~e— 
The first annual meeting of the Lancashire Amalgamation of Natura 
History Societies was held at the Accrington Mechanics Institute, on 
March 9th. Seventeen delegates attended. It was decided to commence 
an organ of the Union, to be called the ‘ Lancashire Naturalist." This is to 
contain 16 pages a month, and is to be sold at one penny. If successful, 
greater things will be attempted. 
Naturalist, 
