148 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT KNARESBOROUGH, 
Asperula cynanchica. Parietaria officinalis. 
Anthriscus vulgaris. Atropa belladonna 
Caucalis nodosa. Allium oleraceum 
Silaus pratensis Paris quadrifolia 
Carduus nutans Orchis pyramidalis 
Carduus crispus. Epipactis latifolia. 
Senecio erucifolius. Festuca rigida. 
Crepis paludosa. ; Asplenium ruta-muraria. 
Calamintha arvensis. Asplenium trichomanes. 
Calamintha officinalis. Ophioglossum vulgatum. 
Salvia verbenaca. Lomaria spicant. 
Echium vulgare. Polypodium pained 
Malva moschata. Equisetum maximu 
pila red latifolia. Equisetum sea: 
Euphorbia exigua. 
Mr. Matthew B. Slater, F.L.S., Bryological Secretary to the 
mamas stated that this not being the season for Mosses, but little 
been actually done on the day, but from all appearances it 
was for Cryptogamic Botany a very good district and if well worked 
would undoubtedly yield some very interesting specimens. The 
following had been mentioned in the circular as occurring in the 
Knaresborough district :— 
MossEs.—Gymnostomum rupestre, Fontinalis squamosa, Hedwigia 
ciliata, in Upper Nidderdale; Dicranella squamosa, Eucladium 
Sipliciiiatans Barbula levipila, 'B. intermedia, B. papillosa, Webera 
carnéa, W. albicans, Bryum pallens, Leskea polycarpa, Anomodon 
viticulosus, Eurhynchium crassinervium, Rhynchostegium tenellum, 
. murale, in the neighbourhood of Knaresborough; Diécranunt 
majus, Tetrodontium brownianum, at Plumpton Rocks ; Scleropodium 
cespitosum, near Cowthorpe Weir 
Hepatics.—Lunularia vulgaris, Cowthorpe Weir; /rudlania 
dilatata, F. tamarisci, Radula complanata, Scapania unduiata, 
Knaresborough district; Jungermania turbinata, near Plumpton 
Rocks. 
r. H. T. Soppitt recorded that about a dozen species of 
parasitic fungi had been seen. One species which confines its 
attentions to the Dandelion was very abundant, whilst one which 
attacks the Thistle, and another which attacks Clover, producing the 
disease known as ‘clover sickness,’ were also common. 
For the Geological Section its President, Mr. Thomas Tate, 
F.G.S., reported that the geologists gave special attention to the 
instructive sections along.the banks of the River Nidd, exposing the 
junction of the Carboniferous with the Permian Rocks. The cliff 
below the Castle grounds shows at its base a dome of coarse red 
Plumpton Grit, upon an irregularly denuded surface of which rests 
Naturalist, 
