BOTANICAL REPORT — 1 879. IO9 



Pinnularia minor — ? 



Roundhay. Abbott, Emsley and Turner. 



P. major Rabh. Baildon. W. West. 



Stauroneis phoenicenteron Ehrb. 



South Milford. Abbott, Emsley and Turner. 



Tetracyclus lacustris Ralfs. 



Roundhay. Abbott, Emsley and Turner. 



Hymantidium pectinale Ehrb. Baildon. W, West. 



Campylodiscus costatus Sm. Bingley. W. West. 



Markington. J. S. Tute. 

 Protococcus viridis K. Common. 

 P. pluvial is K. Leeds. Abbott, Emsley and Turner. 



Bingley. W. West. 

 Gonium pectorale Miill 



Wortley. Abbott, Emsley and Turner. 



THE ' NATURALIST.' 



There have been some very good botanical contributions to the 

 organ of the Union during the past year, including bryological 

 papers by Messrs. H. Boswell, J. Whitehead, C. P. Hobkirk and 

 the Rev. J. Fergusson; "The autumn Flora of Whernside," by 

 Messrs. Lees and West; "Lincolnshire Maritime Plants," by the 

 Rev. W. Fowler, M.A. ; "List of Mosses occurring near Wetherby," 

 by J. S. Wesley, M.B.; and "The Fresh- Water Algse of the Leeds 

 district," by W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S. 



PLANT DISTRIBUTION 

 IN RELATION TO ALTITUDE AND THE NATURE OF THE SOIL. 



The excellent paper upon this subject by Dr. Parsons, 

 in last year's ' Transactions,' has proved very useful by calling the 

 attention of our junior botanists to this important subject, for 

 already some of the members have written on their herbarium 

 labels the nature of the soil the plants were collected 

 on, according to Dr. Parsons' diagnosis of each kind of soil; it is 

 to be hoped that these botanists will also write down on their 

 labels the altitude at which the plants occurred. 



