184 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



enough, in all conscience, in the Ripon neighbour- 

 hood. I have met in Hackfall, a whole family, father, 

 mother, and children, loaded with baskets of violet, 

 fern, and other roots. No one would grudge the 

 inhabitants of towns a few roots of plants they had a 

 fair chance of cultivating in pots, but this wholesale 

 work — especially with a view to selling the results — 

 is shameful. I humbly commend these hints to the 

 consideration of all Yorkshire land owners. 



1645. Ophioglossum vulgatum. Adder's tongue. Damp 

 mossy pastures, not uncommon, but easily overlooked. 

 Copt Hewick ; Markington ; &c. 



1647. Botrychium Lunaria. Moon-wort. Grows in similar 

 places to the last, and is about as common. Copt 

 Hewick ; Ingerthorpe and Markington ; near Mack- 

 ershaw. 



1653. Selaginella selaginoides. Least club-moss. Wet 

 places on mountains. " On the top of Whitsun-cliff, 

 near Thirsk " (Baines). 



1658. Equisetum arvense. Corn horse-tail. Cornfields and 

 damp meadows, common. 



1660. E. maximum. Giant horse-tail. River banks and wet 



places, rare and local. River banks near Tanfield ; 

 Boroughbridge district (Lees, 1. c). 



1661. E. sylvaticum. Wood horse-tail. Damp woods, not 



common. Studley ; Hackfall. 



1663. E. limosum. Smooth water horse-tail. Stagnant water, 



rare. In a pond near Tanfield Hall. 



1664. E. hyemale. Rough water horse-tail. Damp banks and 



woods, especially by rivers, rare. By the Ure, near 

 Tanfield and in Hackfall. . 



Trans. Y.N.U., 1883 (pub. 1884). Series E 



