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than to R. lindleianus its racemose narrow panicle and hairy 

 rachis approximates it. 



The other plants noticed in stations not given in ' North 

 Yorkshire ' were Chara fxtida var. airovirens (Decoy pond, 

 Thirkleby), of which the wild and decoy ducks were said to be 

 very fond ; Typha angustifolia and Carex vesicaria (Decoy) ; 

 Pyrus communis (hedge, bird-sown, near Whitestonecliff) ; 

 Hypericum humifusum and Erythrcsa centaurium, in dry places ; 

 and Sco!ope7idrium vu'gare, on Whitestonecliff; whilst the 

 colonising casual, Diplotaxis muralis, with its large branched 

 state babi?igtoiiii, was seen to be getting well established on 

 waste ground by the sidings at Thirsk Station, on which for 

 thirty years or more its near ally, D. tenuifolia, has been known 

 to exist. 



On Bank-holiday Monday, the ist day of August, the 

 third meeting was held at Sedbergh in the extreme north-west 

 of the County, and the Howgill Fells, Cautley Spout and the 

 valley of the Lune were well investigated. ' No excursion of tiie 

 Union has been more successful or fertile in discovery than 

 this one. The great bulk of the species noted were, of course, 

 already known, and entered for their stations in the ' Flora of 

 West Yorkshire', e.g., Alchemilla alpina, Epilobiiim alsinifolium 

 (with its large form, anceps Fr.), Saxifniga stellaris and Circxa 

 alpina ; but the day's labours resulted in the observance of 

 five species new to the Flora for that part of the Lune 

 river-basin under examination. These are : — Saxifraga aizoides 

 (gill between Winder and Crook Fells — J. Backhouse, junr.) ; 

 Galium borcale (near tlie lyUnc bank) ; Hieracitiin crocatum 

 Fr. (banks at Howgill) ; Hieraciuin umbellatum L. (Lune-side 

 banks), and Linaria minor, but this last is, properly regarded, 

 adventive to the district. At Cautley 'Spout' the Film-fern 

 {Hymenophyllum unilaterah Willd.) was seen growing in massed 

 abundance (in shrivelled state) on rocks many yards away from 

 the much reduced stream at this time — evidence both of the 



