EEPORT 



OF THE 



BOTANICAL SECTION 



1877. 



In the following report the Committee of the Section have 

 not attempted to embody more than the records of the plants 

 observed at the excursions of the Union during the year. To 

 obtain lists of local plants from district societies and private 

 individuals, and to attempt to compile from them a catalogue of 

 the Flora of the West Riding or County they have felt to be a 

 task, not only beyond their powers, but also quite superfluous, 

 inasmuch as a work on the flora of Mid-West and South-West 

 Yorkshire is about to issue from the pen of Mr. F. Arnold Lees, 

 F.L.S., while the two vice-counties of North- West and North- 

 East Yorkshire have already been treated most extensively on a 

 similar plan by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 



Of the 1680 flowering plants and vascular cryptogams 

 enumerated in the 7th edition of the London Catalogue, 502 

 species have been observed at our meetings. The numbers 

 recorded at the several meetings have been as follows : — • 



Pontefract, April 2nd ... 

 Wetherby, May 21st 



Nostell, June i6th 



Shipley, July 14th 



Goole, August 6th 



Copley, September 8th 



Many species, of course, have been recorded at several 

 meetings. 



