24 MARSHALL : REPORT ON YORKSHIRE BRYOLOGY IN 1 897. 



Ephenm-um minutissimum has been gathered by your Secretary 

 in the East Riding, near Market Weighton. It is, however, scarcely 

 a new record, for Dr. Spruce gathered it in several locahties on 

 sandy ground. At that time it was included as a variety of 

 Ephemerum serratum, and has only been recently separated as 

 a species by Lindberg, and is so described in Dr. Braithwaite's 

 admirable ' Moss Flora.' Still it is worthy of notice in this report. 



There is little to report in connection with the excursions of the 

 year, owing to the very dry state of the atmosphere. 



At the Boston Spa meeting on Easter Monday about forty 

 mosses and hepatics were secured. The most interesting was Fottia 

 Behnii, usually a maritime species. Dr. Spruce placed it on record 

 there many years ago. 



The Skelmanthorpe meeting proved rather barren. Thirty 

 mosses and two hepatics were noticed, but none of special rarity. 



Records of the Cotherstone meeting are not to hand. 



The Hackness meeting yielded fifty-two mosses, but the dry 

 state of the atmosphere again prevented much work being done in 

 this section. The Ceratodon co/iicus previously mentioned was the 

 great find of the meeting. 



The Everingham excursion proved the most barren of the year j 

 only very common species were noticed. 



The year's work, however, is most satisfactory, and the section is 

 to be congratulated on having such an enthusiastic band of students 

 constantly at work in the county. 



yot. Trans. V.N.Lf., iS96(publ. :E 



