their bizarre beauties on the botanical observer as in the sheltered haggs and shaws 

 above Buckden. Highest vegetation of all, the curious peltate Umbilicaria, with 

 the blood-spot Lecanora, and the Map lichen, Lecidea, Platysma and Spharophoron 

 ^yill be noted, clothing and adorning the grits of the thousand-wintered summits. 



Yet there is work still to do. On Cam (best reached from Ribblehead Station, 

 from which it is onl)' five miles to the head waters of Wharfe, following the high 

 ancient "green road" of Roman and Dane, north-east by the compass up Cam 

 End), and at Outershaw and Beckermond, Arenana Gothica should be looked out 

 for. And every hawkweed should be closely scrutinised and its locale and altitude 

 noted, in order to define where Hieracium anglicujii, Gibsoni, Ccesium leave off, 

 and where H. C7-ocatitm, ngidum, prenanthoides and mtirorum begin. There are 

 several of these both high up on the time scars and lower down in thickets by the 

 river, but their range is quite undetermined. Saxifraga Geum grows sub- 

 spontaneously in Park Gill, Buckden (C. A. Cheetham) : has it been washed down 

 from higher up, or is it an estray of horticulture ? Lastly and leastly, how far up, 

 on S. or W. facing turf, does the Grassington Polygala alpina extend ? It has 

 been traced to Knipe Wood Scar, opposite Kettlewell (J. F. Pickard) ; and may be 

 one of those floral integers which are "in act of appearance and extension," and 

 which in all countries are gradually replacing elements that from some complex and 

 as yet ill -understood or but vaguely guessed-at changes of environal conditions are 

 on the down-grade to^yards extinction. The specific constituents of no y?or« can 

 well be everlasting and unchanging. Nature for her part has ever her hand on the 

 plough. 



FUNGI. — There is a list of " Langstrothdale Fungi" in the Naturalist, May 

 1S91, pp. 140-142, giving names of about seventy species. 



VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.— Mr. C. H. B. Woodd published a paper on 

 the "Vertebrate Fauna of Langstrothdale," in the Naturalist ic\ May, 1891, pp, 

 135-139- 



MAMMALS.— There is a herd of Fallow Deer in Buckden Wood. 



LAND and FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA.— Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, 

 F.L.S., writes that the molluscan fauna of this remote district has not been 

 systematically investigated. The great predominance of limestone makes it prob- 

 able that the valley will yield a somewhat rich molluscan fauna. A paper by 

 himself in the Naturalist iox May, 1889, p. 144, entitled, "Up Buckden Pike with 

 the Aneroid," records observations made on the altitudinal range of about fifteen 

 species, including An'on ater at 2,010 feet, and Helix r^ipestris up to 1,800 feet. 

 Starbotton village is of interest as the classic locality where the original types were 

 collected from which was described Clansilia craveiisis, formerly erroneoush' 

 set down as CI. dubia. 



ENTOMOLOGY.— There is a note by Rev. T. ■ B. Woodd, on Lareutia 

 riificiuctata, at Outershaw [Naturalist, Oct. 1891, p. 309). 



PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS.— (Monday.) 



"6.0 p.m. — Dinne)-. T A^a' -d 1 t r> 1 j 



„ „ ^ o .-■ 1 A/r ^- ^ At the Buck Inn, Buckden. 



7-0 p.m. — Sectional Meetmgs ( 



7-30 p.m. — General Meeting. 



In order that an early account of the excursion may appear in the " Naturalist," 

 notes and reports should be forwarded before August loth to the Secretary of the 

 Y.N.U., the Museum, Hull. 



