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REPOET ON YORKSHIRE BOTANY 



FOR 1883 AND 1884. 



PHANEROGAMIA. 



By p. fox lee, 



Dewsbury ; Phanerogamic Secretary to the Botanical Section, 



1883. 



The first meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union for 1883 

 was held at Doncaster on Whit-Monday, the 14th May. It was 

 too early then, as the botanical paragraph of the circular 

 announcing that meeting stated, for even the leaf-tufts of Strati- 

 otes aloides to float up from the muddy bottoms of the drains at 

 Potteric Carrs, but in August I found an abundance of it there 

 in fine bloom. Also on the same date at the Carrs, an hitherto 

 unpublished station within the County of York, I got specimens 

 of what Mr. F. Arnold Lees believes to be Ranunculus godronii 

 Gren., and so stated in the New LocaHty List of the Botanical 

 Record Club's Report for the year 1883. The total number of 

 Phanerogams, Ferns, &c., of the London Catalogue observed 

 in the district was 177. 



At the second meeting on June nth, at Filey, only 34 

 species were noted, and these mostly the common coast plants, 

 although a somewhat notable plant for this locality, viz., 

 Geranium sangimieum L., was gathered near Speeton. 



The third meeting was at York on the 14th July, and 

 Strensall Common the hunting-ground. Very fine specimens 

 of Botrychium lunaria Sw. were gathered on the railway side 

 near Strensall village, and in one of the ditches occurred 

 Scutellaria minor L. Of the latter I sent specimens to the 

 Botanical Record Club, whose report for 1883 states that Stren- 

 sall Common is ' a new station ' for the Lesser Skull-cap, not 



