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REPORT ON YORKSHIRE BOTANY 



FOR 1887. 



PHANEROGAMIA. 



P. FOX LEE, 



Dewsbury ; Phanerogamic Secretary to the Botanical Section. 



(Read to the Annua! Meeting of the Botanical Section at Malton, 1888). 



All the five meetings for 1887 have been held at very 

 interesting botanical centres, and a goodly number of new 

 records, both vice-comital and local, have to be registered. 



At the first meeting, held at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, on 

 Whit-Monday, the 30th of May, the district explored was from 

 Guisborough, following the course of a winding stream to 

 Saltburn. Among the rarer plants of the nearly eighty species 

 noticed, the following may be mentioned : — Cardainine aniara 

 L., Glauxmaritiiiia T.. (on the coast), Myosotis sylvatica Hoffm., 

 Airopa belladonna L. (not in flower), Meiillia viridls L. (a 

 large patch of this, the ordinary Spear-mint of gardens, seen 

 growing by the stream-side, evidently thoroughly naturalized). 

 Iris fcetidissivia \u (this rare plant noted in the glen ; not in 

 flower, however, at this early season, and very doubtfully 

 indigenous), and Pninus padus L.; Scolopendnum vnlgare Sm., 

 was the only fern observed. 



The next excursion and meeting was held on July 20th, 

 in response to the special invitation of the President, Sir Ralph 

 Paync-Gallwey, Bart, at Gormire Lake and at his seat at 

 Thirkleby Park. This meeting brought forth a new vice-county 

 record for north-cast Yorkshire, viz. : — Potenlilla argenlea L., 



