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BOTANY, -Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., writes that the neighbourhood of 

 Terrington and Wigganthorpe may be said to be somewhat classical ground for the 

 botanist. One of the best early lists of the plants of Yorkshire, ' Plantee Ebor- 

 acenses,' (by Robert Teesdale, F. L.S., sometime gardener at Castle Howard), 

 contains a list of the flowering plants found chiefly about Castle Howard, and was 

 published in the 1st vol. of the Linnean Transactions, and a supplement was given 

 in the second volume, Dec. 1798, containing additional flowering plants from other 

 districts of Yorkshire, also a good list of grasses, ferns, mosses, hepatics and lichens. 

 Both lists are very carefully drawn up and are still referred to by writers on botanical 

 geography. The learned botanist and traveller, Dr. R. Spruce, A.L. S., was bom 

 at the village of Ganthorpe, a short distance from Terrington, and his remains lay 

 in the churchyard at Terrington, alongside the grave of his father. In his early 

 years he studied the plants of this district, and more particularly the cryptogamic 

 plants, and in Sir W. J. Hooker's London Journal of Botany for April, 1845, he 

 pub ished a list of 23 mosses with good descriptions, all new idditions to the British 

 flora, and many of them found by him in the district around Castle Howard. 



Flowering' Plants. — Mr. J. S. Upex, of Terrington, gardener at Wigan- 

 thorpe Park, writes that at this season many interesting plants will be in flower, 

 in Terrington Carr, and also in the woods and meadows near by. The following 

 amongst many others have been collected by himself: — In the bogs: Pingiiicula 

 vulgaris, Potentilla cotnani/n, Narthcciiini ossifragiun, Parnassia pahisti-is, Viola 

 pahistris, Valeriana dioica, Utricularia minor, Callitriche aqitatica, Eriophoriuii 

 polystachion, Genin inter viediiini, Sparganium simplex, S. ramosum, Alisma plan- 

 tago, and Triglochin pahistre. Years ago the Droseras were plentiful, but owing 

 to drainage a specimen can now rarely be met with. On the moorland may be 

 found Erica cinerea, E. tetrahx, Polygala vulgaris, Potentilla tormentilla, Alche- 

 inilla vulgaris, Pedicularis sylvatica, Lathyriis maa-orrhizus , Galium saxatile, 

 Molitiia carulea, and Nardus strict a. In the woods surrounding the moor are 

 Aspleniuin filix-fomina, Aspidinm filix-mas, A. spinulosum, A. dilatatiim, Blech- 

 num spicant, Py7'ola minor, Brachypodiiim sylvaticiim, Vaccinium uiyrtilhis, Con- 

 vallaria majalis, Lysimachia nemorum, Melampyrum pratense, and M. cristatum. 

 In the North Carr, Ti'olliiis europceus grows abundantly. A few of the plants 

 growing in Wiganthorpe Park are Orchis ustulata, O. ??iorio, Habenaria viridis, 

 Tragopogon minor, Rhinanthus crista-galli, Jtinais bufonius, J. actitijlorits, and 

 Equisetitm sylvatiatm. In the lake near to the hall grow Potamogeton crispus 

 and Myriophylliim spicatum. Round the large lake, at the bottom of the park, 

 Typha latifolia, T. angnstifolia, and Epilobium hirsutum ; and on a bank near by 

 sometimes a specimen may be found oi the Greater Broomrape, 0}-obanche elatior. 

 In the pastures near the village of Terrington both Ophioglossum vulgatum and 

 Botrychiiim liinaria grow in quantity ; and in a field oa the south side of the 

 village, Dianthtis deltoides. On the old stone walls are found Sedum acre, S, 

 album, S. dasyphylluvi, Arabis thaliana, and Asplenium ruta-muraria. 



Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S. , writes that the Howardian district furnishes a great 

 variety of situation for our native plants. Terrington Carr, a well-known botanical 

 locality, is a heathery swamp, a little to the north-east of Terrington and Wiggan- 

 thorpe. The Carr and adjoining district are rich in our terrestrial orchids, many 

 of which should be in flower at this season, viz. : — Orchis mascula, O. maciilata, 

 O. latifolia, O. morio, 0. iistiilata, 0. pyramidalis, Gymnadenia conopsea, 

 Habenaria bifolia, Ophrys apifera, 0. muscifera, Epipactis latifolia, E. palustris, 

 Lis(e?'a ovata, L. cordata, and Spiranthes autiimnalis. Some rare species of Carex 

 also grow in the Carr, and for many other native plants found in the district consult 

 Baker's North Yorkshire, ed. 2, p. 208. 



Mosses and Hepatics. — On a portion of the peaty ground known as Terring- 

 ton North Carr, formerly grew the rare moss Paludella sqtiaj-rosa, which was first 

 discovered in 1842, and recorded from the locality by Dr. Spruce in the 'Phytologist' 

 for that year. After the wet summer of i860 the bog was drained, and this 

 moisture-loving plant soon afterwards disappeared, also the rare Thidditim blandovii, 

 which grew in the same locality. The Paludella had only been met with in Britain 

 at another place, on Knutsford Moor, Cheshire, where it was discovered by the late 

 W. Wilson, in 1832. This locality has also long since been destroyed by drainage, 

 so the moss must, for the present, be considered extinct in Britain until some 



