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mentioned in Baker's ' North Yorkshire.' Another good plant, 

 Cnicus pratensis Willd. was also found • on the Common. 

 Altogether 276 species were marked on the London Catalogue, 

 indicating the day's work. 



The next meeting was in picturesque Washburndale, on 

 Bank Holiday, August 6th. Some five or six weeks before this 

 date I had made the discovery on Poole Bridge of the Scaly 

 Spleenwort, Asplemum ceterach'L., and took some of the botani- 

 cal members at this excursion to see it growing. I reported 

 the locality and sent specimens to Mr. F. Arnold Lees for the 

 Botanical Record Club, who says in the 1883 Report, this fern 

 is ' not truly wild here, . . on Poole Bridge it has appeared 

 within the last five years.' Of course this may be correct, yet 

 the fairly large plants wedged- fast in the mortar joints in an 

 almost inaccessible part of the bridge, leads me to infer that it 

 must have been well established for more than five years. The 

 total number of observations from Poole, Washburndale to the 

 margin of Nab Wood, and back to Otley was 256. 



The fifth and last meeting for 1883, on the ist September, 

 in the region round about Malham, proved to be one of great 

 interest. It is not every day that such a choice and well-worked 

 district as Malham adds a new locality in the county for a good 

 plant variety, but it was so at this ramble in the discovery at 

 the Tarn Bog of Serratula tinctoria var. monticola Boreau. The 

 find was afterwards confirmed by the then President, Mr. J. 

 Gilbert Baker, F.R.S., and it also appears in the 1883 Report of 

 the Botanical Record Club. Another interesting feature 

 witnessed at the Tarn Bog was the successful cultivation of 

 Drosera anglica Huds., planted in 1882. During the June of 

 1883 I found on Gordale Scar a montane form of Myosotis 

 sylvatica Hoffm., and hoped it would turn out to be the rarer 

 sub-species, M. alpestris Schmidt, oi M. sylvatica. Unfortunately 

 the leaves were not subsessile enough, and the calyx was loaded 

 with hooked hairs. The third edition of Hooker's ' Students' 

 Flora' says M. sylvatica ascends to 1,200 ft. in Yorkshire, so 



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