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exceptional drought and the wide-spreading spray of the cascade 

 when in its normal volume.' 



The next meeting was held on the 27th of August, at 

 Welton Vale, near Brough, a picturesque little valley excavated 

 in the wolds. Many good flowering plants w^ere gathered, 

 including : — Malva rolundlfoHa L., Astragalus glycyphyllos L. 

 (in fruit), Scabiosa columbaria L., Campanula rapunculoides L. 

 (an escape). Campanula glomerata L., Gentiana amarella L., 

 /uncus obtusiflorus Ehrh., and Apera spica-venti Beauv. 



The seventieth meeting of the Union and last one for 

 1887, taking the place of a Fungus Foray announced and sub- 

 sequently postponed to another year, was held at Hatfield, for 

 the far-famed Level of Hatfield Chace, a district hitherto but 

 little explored. A good search was made over the undrained 

 peaty tract for Drosera intermedia Hayne, and the rarer species 

 Drosera anglica Huds., as v/ell as for Osmunda regalis L. (in 

 thickets about the Chace) all three likely to be found here — 

 the investigators being so intent upon the work that they got 

 lost, and only learnt their whereabouts on emerging at Wroot 

 in. Lincolnshire ! — but no traces of these plants could be 

 discovered. 



Andromeda poUfoIia L., was fairly abundant among the 

 Ling and Cross-leaved Heath on the Chace, and a few half 

 withered specimens oi Rhynchospora alba Vahl., were noted. In 

 the drains and on the peaty banks of ditches occurred Stel/aria 

 aquatica Scopoli, Hydrocotyle vulgaris L., Hippuris vulgaris L., 

 Potamogeton pusillus var. tenuissimus M. and K., and Carex 

 pseudocyperus L. 



On the sandy drives, stubble-fields, &:c., the best things 

 observed were Fapaver dubium L., Spergularia rubra Pers., 

 Erodium cicutarium L'Herit., Rubus suberectuswax. pissus Lindl., 

 Dipsacus sylvestris L. (abundant on the banks of one of the 

 large drains), Scleranthus annuus L., and Hordeum murinum L. 

 The total number of species seen at this meeting was 142. 



Trans. Y.N.U., 18S7 (pub. 1889). Series E. Vol. 3. 



