240 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT LECKBY CARR. 
Silene inflata, Hypericum dubium, Rosa villosa, Pimpinella saxtfraga, 
Centaurea scabtosa, Plantago media, and Humulus lupulus. It was 
noticed that the foliage of the fine Beech trees near Cundall and 
Leckby, which a few days ago appeared beautifully green, was all 
browned and blackened by the recent intense frost. The Carr, 
which was unprecedentedly dry, yielded those two ‘ vegetable spiders’ 
Drosera rotundifolia and D. anglica, Vaccinium oxycoccos (the 
cranberry), the rare Lysimachia thyrsiflora, Betula glutinosa, Erto- 
phorum vaginatum, E. angustifolium, Calamagrostis lanceolata, and 
abundance of Lastrea spinulosa, the young fronds of which had all 
been cut down by the late frost. This locality is so greatly altered 
by drainage, and also by the planting of a large number of Conifers, 
that the sphagnous peat ditches which afforded so congenial a 
home to that floral treasure Scheuchzeria palustris have well-nigh 
disappeared. Leaving the Carr a very pleasant walk upon the west 
bank of the river Swale produced Zhalictrum flavum, Ranunculus 
auricomus, Viola alba, V. hirta, V. riviniana, Saponaria officinalts, 
erastium arvense, Geranium pratense, Rubus plicatus, Poterium 
sanguisorba, Ribes rubrum, Sanicula europea, Campanula latifolia, 
Myosotis palustris, Primula caulescens (popularly known as the 
Oxlip), Rumex aguaticus, Populus alba, with its copious, far-extending, 
and very conspicuous white suckers, Salix fragilis, S. alba, S. helix, 
S. viminalis, S. cinerea, Orchis morio, Allium scorodoprasum, and 
Gagea lutea. In the river were dense masses of Ranunculus fluitans, 
with its long floating grass-like leaves, which in one place ha 
accumulated a sand-bank sufficiently large to divert the course of the 
stream. Lilium martagon was seen in the wood below Asenby, 
a locality in which it has been naturalised for upwards of forty years. 
At the Sectional Meeting one of the members exhibited Polygonatum 
officinale (Solomon’s Seal) from Baldersby Park, most probably an 
escape from cultivation; and another showed that pretty and 
interesting species Paris guadrifolia. 
e Conchological Section, in the absence of all its officers, was 
represented by Mr. Wm. Nelson, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 
Mr. W. Hewett, etc., and the report was given by Mr. Nelson as 
follows :—Twenty-eight species had been taken during the day, of 
which eight were water shells, six slugs, and fourteen land shells. Of 
these the most interesting were Pisidium pusillum,Planorbis spirorbts, 
1. contortus,and Arion minimus, all of which were additions to the 
fauna of North-West York vice- county. 
A vote of thanks passed to the Chairman on the motion of 
Messrs. Thrippleton and Hemingway concluded the meeting. — 
Naturalist, 
