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the gathering must be dismissed as but a mountain form of 

 that species. Many of the rarities of Malham were collected, 

 and the total reached 291, making a grand total for 1883 of 

 1034. 



1884. 



The first meeting for 1884 was held at Roche Abbey on the 

 8th of May. The woods at the Abbey, Sandbeck Park, 

 Maltby Woods and Common, and Martin Beck were investi- 

 gated, and 117 of the earlier flowering plants were noticed. 

 Prwmla elatior Jacq., was reported as occurring at Roche 

 Abbey, but the meeting decided that the plant in question was 

 not the true Oxlip of the south-eastern counties, but only the 

 cowslip-primrose hybrid— the P. variabilis of Goupil, and the 

 P. vtdgaris var. c. intermedia of the Lond. Cat. The Fritillaria 

 meleagris L., found in Sandbeck Park, too, is not accepted by 

 the late H. C. Watson as being anything but undoubtedly intro- 

 duced in England north of Staffordshire and Warwickshire. 



The Whit-Monday meeting, On June 2nd, was held at 

 Sherburn, and this good magnesian limestone district was 

 pretty well worked by various parties. Three of the plants 

 reported at this meeting, also mentioned in the ' Naturalist ' for 

 July, as having been observed during the day, were afterwards 

 found to be incorrect. These plants were Sium laiifolium. 

 Antirrhinum orontium, and Cephalanthera ensifolia. Two 

 beautiful specimens of C. ensifolia were certainly laid on the 

 table, but it was subsequently made out they had been gathered 

 in the Boston Spa district. On the banks of the stream near 

 Bishop's Wood, a new locality was discovered for Barbarea 

 vulgaris^ sub-sp. B. strict a Andrz. The total number of 

 Phanerogams with the higher Cryptogams of the London 

 Catalogue was 266. 



The next excursion was the Hawes one, on June 28th, and 

 many rare plants were bagged. Mr. F. Arnold Lees' recent 

 find of the very rare Viola arenaria DC, at Mossdale Head 



