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Faccinium Oxycoccus. Leckby Carr. 

 iJiiphne Mezereum. On an island in the Swale, 



now perfectly wild. 

 Polygonum viviparum. Wensleydale. 

 Pyrola minor. Aske Woods. 

 /Saxifraga umbrbsa. Aske Woods. 



/^irculus. Junction of Balder and Black- 

 beck. 



tridactyPites. Walls. 



Aypnoides. Wensleydale. 

 Chrysosplfenium alternifMium. Wood near 

 Richmond. 



oppositifblium. Wood near Richmond* 

 Diitnthus Caryophyllus. Fountain's Abbey. 

 Stellaria nemorbsa. Wood near Richmond. 

 Arenaria peploldes. Redcar. 



marina. Redcar. 



rilbra. Hartlepool, 

 i^thrum Salic Jlria. Near Skeeby. 

 Spirae'^a Filip^ndula. Malton. 

 Mbsa rubella. Hartlepool. ': 



iZabus saxatilis. Richmond. 

 Potentilla fruticbsa. Wynch Bridge. 



v^rna. Wynch Bridge. 

 Comarum palustre. Leckby Cart. 

 Actse'a. spicata. Askrigg. 

 A'ymphaj^a alba. Near Thirsk. 

 Aquil^gia vulgaris. Near Wensley. 

 Thalictrura minus. Near Coatham. 



flavum. Near Northallerton. 

 Ranunculus Lingua. Near Northallerton. 

 T)-6llius europae\is. Near Richmond, 

 i/ell^borus viridis. Kirby Fleetham. 

 Te^lcxium 5c6rdium. Bolton. 

 Mentha rubra. Bishop Auckland^ 

 StJlchys palustris. Near Richmond. 

 Scutellaria minor. Near Walsingham. 

 Lathrse^a squam&ria. Woods near Richmond, 

 iepidium latifblium. Near Coatham. 

 Cardamine am^ra. Richmond. 

 iVasturtium amphibium. Near Thirsk. 

 If^speris matronklis. Clover field near Kirby 



Fleetham. 

 Pelargbnium phje^um, Aske Woods. 



The following is a list of the white varieties found in this neighbourhood, 

 in the class Didynaraia alone : — 



A'juga r^ptans. Clinop6dium vulgare. Barts/a Odontites. 



i?et6nica officinalis. Origanum vulgkre. Pediculkris paldstris, 



.Sallbta n'lgra Frunella vulgaris. 



Pelargbnium sylvaticum. Woods. 



lucidum. Walls. 



columblnum. Thirsk. 



sanguineum. Hartlepool. " 



FIcia sylvatica. Woods, 

 ylstragalus hypogl(Sttis. Yorkshire Wolds, 

 //ypericum humifusum. Near Scoiton. 

 Carduus tenuifibrus. Redcar. 



heterophyllus Richmond. 

 CarVma vulgaris. Richmond. 

 Bldens cernua. Bolton. 



tripartita. Bolton. 

 Artemisia gallica. Redcar. 



maritima. Redcar. 

 Gnaphalium dioicwm. Race-ground near 



Richmond. 

 rchis bil'blia. Near Richmond. 



pyramidalis. Wensleydale. 



mbrio. Near Richmond. — Also O. ustu- 

 Ikta, viridis, latifblia, and conupsea. 

 OVhrys «pifera. Near Wansley. 

 Listfcra ovata. Near Richmond. 



cordata. Near Richmond. 



nidus avis. Near Richmond. 

 jEpipactis latifMia. Near Richmond. 



palustris. Near Richmond. 

 5parganium simplex. Near Northallerton. 

 C^rex p(5ndula. Near Richmond. 

 Myrioph^llum verticillatum. Near Bolton. 

 Sagittaria sagittifblia. Near Northallerton. 

 SaDx triandra. Near Darlington. 



amygdalina. Near Darlington. 



ribra. Near Darlington. 



pentandra. Near Richmond. 



fragilis. Near Richmond. 



Lambert/nwa. Near Richmond. 

 Polypbdium Dryupteris. Near Gilling. 

 Aspidium lobatum. Near Redcar. 

 Cyathea fragilis. Malham. 

 ^splfeniura viride. Malham Farm. 



marinum^ Near Hartlepool. 

 Wo6dsia ilv^nsis. Falcon Glints, 

 Lycopbdium selaginoldes. 



Northumberland and Durham* 



Natural History Society of Newcastle upon Tyne. — • An introductory 

 address delivered by the Rev. William Turner, at the First Meeting of the 

 Natural History Society of the counties of Northumberland, Durham, and 

 Newcastle upon Tyne, held on Tuesday, Sept. 15. 1829 j to which are 

 appended the provisional laws directed by the Meeting to be prepared by 

 the Committee, and to continue in force until the Anniversary, and a list 

 of the officers and members (Newcastle, 1829, pamph. 8vo); has been 

 lately published. Theory would lead us to infer that literature and science 

 should flourish most in cities and places which are the resort of those classes 

 of society which have leisure and education ; but, practically, it is otherwise. 

 Cathedral cities and watering-places are remarkably deficient in the institu- 

 tions which favour their progress, while commercial places have displayed 

 an eminent zeal on the subject. Newcastle was among the first to establish 

 a Literary and Philosophical Institution, and has become the metropolis of 

 science for the northern portions of England. Liverpool is indebted to a 

 Roscoe, for engrafting upon its commercial stock a taste for the Muses and 

 for literature ; and Newcastle upon Tyne owes no less a debt of gratitude 

 to Mr. Turner and others, for giving a salutary direction to the scientific 

 occupations of the citizens, and infusing a noble spirit among its enterpris- 

 ing merchants. 



Out of the Literary and Philosophical Institution has sprung a Natural 



