198 CORDEAUX: ADDRESS TO YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS, 
daisy-like flower with a yellow centre ; bird’s eye primrose (Pr 
Jarinosa) ; the alpine lady’s mantle (Adlchemilla alpina), with 
having the underparts silky; the bog-bell (Andromeda polifile 
a familiar plant of the tundras ; the exquisite Smilacina bifolia,’ 
the dwarf cornel (Cornus suectca), in the Forge valley near 
borough, and Picketing moors ; this latter is a very common 
on the low rocky islands and mainland of Arctic Norway. 
I first became acquainted with the cornel, I could not under 
how it was that the apparent single flower became in the aul 
changed into a cluster of small dull-red berries. The flowes * 
very small, and arranged in a terminal umbel, and 
four large, broad, white, petal-like bracts, which give the appea® 
of a single flower. Bears are said to be very fond of the bemes 
and to get fat on them. The localities for these and several 
northern plants will be found in Mr. Arnold Lees’ excellent Flora 
West Yorkshire. : et 
There is an obscure little plant common both in Yorkshire® : 
Lincolnshire, in the shelter of old woodlands and hedge-rows, 2% | 
favourite of mine, for I take it to be a plant of most ancient 
which, in these latitudes, has adapted itself to the changed condit™® we 
of a temperate Climate ; it is known as the tuberous 
(Adoxa). Its medicinal powers are said to be great. 
: Adoxa loves the greenwood shade, 
ere, waving through the verdant glade, 
peas Her scented seeds she strews. : ‘ ik 
‘ This plant is found near the tops of Highland ere hk 
grows in sheltered spots in the bleak, treeless tundras a in tt 
and has recently been found growing in Kolguev, an : 
Arctic seas. pe got 
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and ‘Discovery,’ between the parall “e 
80 deg. north latitude, sixty species of flowering plants We” 
and five species of handsome butterflies. - nolidays 
To those botanists who have spent weeks of he a 
Searching the summits of the Yorkshire hills and Scot 
