Yorkshire Nafuralisis at Ingle ton. igi 



In reporting-, the sectional president referred to the district 

 being very rich in land shells, and that the day's collecting- was 

 by no means representative. Mention was made that the 

 var. violacea of Agriolimax agrestis was found as well as the 

 usual double types, pallida and reticulata^ and that Avion 

 circuniscriptus was abundant and very larg-e in size. The other 

 species called for no particular remark. 



Mr. J. W. Carter states that few species of Coleoptera 

 were met with owing- to the fact that Ingleboro' was not 

 investig-ated. The district worked was Helk's Wood, and the 

 species noted were what one would expect to find in almost any 

 part of the count}-, viz., Nehria brevicollis, F ; Loricera pilicornis, 

 F ; Notiophilus bignttatus, F ; Pterostichus niadidns, F ; P. niger 

 Schal ; P. vulgaris, L ; P. striola, F ; Ocypus ater, Gr. ; Tachiuus 

 collaris, Gr. ; and Agriotes obscuriis, L. 



Of Hymenoptera, Mr. T. Castle captured an ichneumon in 

 Helk's Wood, which Mr. Claude Morley has identified as 

 Ichneumon confnsorius Gr. 



Dr. W. G. Smith writes : — One section of botanists pro- 

 ceeded towards Crina Bottom and spent the first part of the day 

 on the Limestone of White Scars (1200 to 1300 feet), with the 

 object of examining- the vegetation and comparing it with the 

 results obtained on the Upper Wharfedale and Airedale Lime- 

 stone during the botanical survey of that area.* It was too 

 early for many flowers on the Limestone Pastures, and even the 

 leaves of many species were scarcely recognisable. Arenaria 

 veina, Draba verua, Liizula canipestris, Sesleria coerulea with 

 early Dandelion and Lady's Mantle were almost the only species 

 in flower. At one place three species of Lycopodiiini (Z. Selago, 

 alpinum, clavatuni) were found together, and the two first- 

 named were frequently met with about this altitude ; they 

 ought therefore to be included in the plants of the Limestone 

 Pasture of Ingleboro'. A soft mossy turf, consisting largely of 

 Saxifraga hvpnoides was also common ; this we have met with 

 frequently on the Ingleboro' Limestone up to the Encrinite 

 strata near the summit. The Limestone Pavements were 

 found to harbour in their crevices almost all the species already 

 recorded at Malham and in Lipper Wharfedale. The Anemone 

 was particularly showy with large flowers. These pavement 

 plants are almost all species found in the valley woods, and 

 were seen there later in the day, but they are absent on the 



(* See Smith & Rankin, ' Geographical Distribution of X'etjetation in 

 Yorkshire, Part II., 1903.') 



1906 June I. 



