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fruit near Dent, as well as enormous fruiting specimens of 

 Peltigera canina; the summit of Baugh Fell yielded Cetraria 

 tslandica, lower down the same hill yielded Sqiiamaria saxicola, 

 Lecidea decolorans and Umiilicaria proboscidea. 



Fungi were of course out of season and very few were 

 noticed, Polyporus versicolor, Agaricus velittipes, Hypoxylon 

 fuscum, Cucurbitaria ciipularis and Helothwi czrtiginosum being 

 among those that were seen. 



Algae were rather neglected, Chroolepiis aureiini, Oscillatoria 

 rupestris, Cymbella ventricosa and Nosioc sphcericum being the 

 best that were seen. 



Mr. Isaac Hindsonof Kirby Lonsdale presented to the section 

 a list of the rarer plants he had observed in the neighbourhood.* 



HARROGATE, MAY lOTH, 1 879. 



The district explored at this ramble, besides the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Harrogate, included the rocky district about 

 Pateley Bridge, the Permian limestone of Knaresborough, Greenhow 

 and Markington, The district investigated consisted chiefly of 

 the coal measures and Permian strata. The vascular plants 

 observed were 133, and among them were many uncommon 

 plants, the more noteworthy being Helleborus viridis, Stellaria 

 nemoruni^ Alsine verna, Saxifraga hypnoides, Vaccitiium Vitis-idcea, 

 V. Oxycoccos and Hymenophylhnn unilaterale. 



Ninety-one Mosses were obtained, including Dicranum 

 majus (ft), Eticladium verticillatum (ft.), Barbula papulosa, Ulota 

 intermedia (ft.), Webera carnea, Bryum fallens (ft), Mnium 

 serratum, M. stellar e, Pterygophyllum lucens (ft.), Leskea polycarpa, 

 Plagiothecium Borrerianum, Amblystegium irriguum, Hypnum 

 stellatu?n and Hylocomium brevirostre. 



Thirteen species of Hepaticse were found, including fruiting 

 specimens of Scapania undulata and Jungermannia albicans. 



Twenty-one species of. Lichens were noticed, none being 

 rare. Parmelia physodes was very abundant on old trees near 



* Since the above was written, the death of Mr. Hindson — on the 22nd 

 of July, 1880, at the age of 74 — has been announced. 



