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than at either of the other meetings, and many of them were local 

 or rare species. On the banks of the tidal Ouse are found several 

 maritime or rather salt-marsh plants, as Aster Tripolium and 

 Glaux maritinia; the plants of sandy and rocky sea shores are 

 however absent, as also the saline Chenopodiacea^. The flora of 

 Goole Moor, or Thorne Waste, resembles that of the high 

 western moors, but differs in the absence of Erica cinerea and 

 the two Vaccinia — V. myrtillus and V. Vitis-idcea, and also in the 

 great local abundance of Andt'ovieda polifolia. Several other very 

 local species are met with there. Empetnim nigniiii is found on 

 Goole Moor, but only on the margins of the ponds frequented by 

 wild fowl, by whose droppings the seeds may perhaps have been 

 conveyed thither. The rarity of Graminece and of plants with 

 yellov/ flowers is remarkable, as is also the entire change in the 

 flora effected by the process of "warping." The wet sandy 

 common called Rawcliffe Rabbit Hills yielded plants j^eculiar to 

 such places, e.g., Drosera intermedia.^ Hypericmn elodes, Gentiajia 

 Pneumonanthe and Pilularia globulifera. It is probably somewhat 

 similar to what Goole Moor was before the accumulation of peat 

 took place. The number of cryptogams observed at the Goole 

 meeting was not large, but certain kinds of mosses, as Sphagnum 

 and Polytrichnm, were extremely abundant and luxuriant on the 

 Moor. ' , 



At Norland Moor the flora resembled that at Rombald's 

 Moor, but Empetnim nigrum was absent. A diminution vras 

 observed in the total number of species seen, due in part to the 

 season being nearly past. . Hepaticae were unusually plentiful, 

 mosses and fungi moderately so, and lichens very scarce. 



In South-West Yorkshire, as defined by Mr. H. C. Watson, 

 i.e., that part of the West Riding south of the Aire and the 

 Leeds and Liverpool Canal, i8 species have been observed not 

 included in "Topographical Botany" (published in 1873) as 

 inhabiting that vice-county, viz. : — 



Ranunculus hirsutus, Curtis ... Goole 



Drosera intermedia, Hayne ... Goole Moor and Rawcliffe. 



