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REPORT ON YORKSHIRE BOTANY 

 FOR 1885. 



PHANEROGAMIA. 



P. FOX LEE, 



Dewsbury ; Phaneroga.mic Secretary to the Botanical Section. 



(Read before Bot. Sect., Annual Meeting of Y.N.U. at Beverley, 22nd March, 1886)? 



During the past year the excursions have not been the 

 means of adding very much information to that we had already 

 gained in the Phanerogamic Botany of the interesting places 

 visited. 



Perhaps this may in part be owing to the unfavourable 

 weather at Pocklington, the early visit to the Anston Stones 

 district, and the lateness of the year at Blubberhouses, but 

 probably the chief cause must be attributed to the limited 

 working time afforded in a single day, at the distant places em- 

 braced in the year's programme. 



The first excursion was to Anston Stones, and the 

 adjoining extreme southern corner of the county, on April 30th. 

 Many of the earlier blooming plants were noted, such as : 

 Erophiln vulgaris DC, Daphne lanreola L., one of the h)brids 

 ^){ Pri)nitla vulgaris Huds. and a profusion in every hedgerow 

 of the Sloe and the Bullace [Frunus co/ii/iui/iis Huds. and sub- 

 sp. F. insititia L). 



There were also a few nice flowering specimens of the 

 Hen-bit Deadnettle {La/iiium ainplexicau'e L.) and of Litlio- 

 sperinum arvense L., as well as cokjnies of that root-parasite, 

 Lathrcea squainaria L. and the delicious Morel, Morclwlla 

 esculenta. 



