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REPORT ON YORKSHIRE BOTANY 

 FOR i; 



PHANEROGAMIA. 



P. FOX LEE, 



Dewsbury; Phanerogamic Secretary to the Botanical Section. 



(Read to the Annual Meeting of the Botanical Section at Dewsburj', 18S7). 



The meetings of the Yorkshire NaturaHsts' Union for 

 1886 have not produced as much real botanical work among 

 the Phanerogams and higher Cryptogams embraced in the 

 London Catalogue of British plants, as in former years. There 

 is no new record to be made in the geographical distribution of 

 plants. Several rare plants have been collected at the four 

 meetings held during the year, but the whole of them were at 

 previously known stations. 



The opening meeting was held at Askern, on Thursday 

 the 20th May. The typical flora of the neighbourhood of Askern 

 is more a late summer one, owing to the ditches and wet 

 ground with which the district abounds, consequently at the 

 first meeting so early in the year as the 20th of May, coupled 

 with adverse ipeteorological conditions, viz. : — a cold wet day, 

 and much of the country proposed for investigation being 

 flooded from the excessive rainfall of the previous week or two, 

 the l)otanical results presented but a meagre record. Only 92 

 observations were made, and these mostly the common early- 

 flowering species. 



The next meeting on the 14th of June, at Flamborough 

 Head, only allowed a limited lime for investigating the flora of 

 that interesting district of East Yorkshire. The botany of this 

 calcareous coast-line, and the country inland, as indeed may 

 be said of the whole of East Yorkshire, is but imperfectly known, 

 and would be well worth the careful attention of the Botanical 

 Section. We already have good Floras of both the North and 

 West Ridings, and the section might with advantage, both to 



