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REPORT ON YORKSHIRE BOTANY FOR 1890 

 PHANEROGAMIA. 



C. p. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., and P. F. LEE, 



President ajui Phanerogamic Secretary of the Botanical Section of the 

 Yorkshire Xatiiralists' Union. 



The following report on Yorkshire Phanerogamic Botany was read 

 to the Annual Meeting at Halifax on the iSth Nov., 1890. 



The first meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union for 1890 was 

 held at Driffield on Whit-Monday, May 26th, for the investigation of 

 Lowthorpe, Kilham, Ruston Parva, and the valley of the Kelk Beck 

 to Brace Bridge. The weather was beautiful, and a fair number of 

 the early blooming plants was observed. During the day 112 

 flowering plants and ferns were noted or gathered, among them 

 the following interesting species : — 



h-is Pseiidaconis in flower, swampy ground, near Lowthorpe. 



Anthyllis Vidueraria L., HabenaHa viridis Br., 



Onohrychis sativa Lnm. , Carex paniciilata L. , 



GeiiDi rivale L. , Carex pendii/a and three species 

 Hipp2iris vulgaris L., of Potainogeion. 



At the second meeting, on Saturday, June 14th, the Dewsbury 

 district was visited (for the first time in the history of the Union), 

 the ground worked being Bretton Park and the wooded uplands in 

 its vicinity, Stocks Moor, and Coxley Valley, with Dewsbury as head- 

 quarters. Although the whole of the places visited had, on previous 

 occasions, been pretty well worked, two additions to the local flora 

 were made (both Sedges), namely — Carex fnlva Good, and C. 

 chrysites Link. (C (Ederi Auct. Angl. non Ehrh., C. flava var. 

 cyperoides Marsson). About 185 out of the nearly 600 species and 

 varieties known in the district were seen either in flower or fruit, 

 the best of these being — 



Viola odorafa L. , Hottonia palustris L. , 



Saponaria officinalis L. , Salix pentandra I^. , 



Hydrocotyle vulgaris L., Listera ovata Br., 



Adoxa Moschatellina L. , Scirpus sylvalims L., 



Campanula latifolia L. , Acorns Calaimis L. , 



Primula 77//ovr;7V Huds., Nephrodinni spivulosuin Desv. 



BOT. 4—2. 



