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fairly glowed with dandelions. On every hand the lovely stitchwort 
hung its delicate bridal wreaths above beds of blue ground-ivy, while 
clumps of graceful water-avens, uh hanging their apricot heads, 
adorned the level below. In some pastures the yellow umbels of 
the cowslip, changed to put santa! by the transparent chalices which 
half hide them, quite concealed all other herbage. We must not 
forget to include also the beauties of the orchards, which were then 
in the height of blossom, and which gave promise of most abundant 
crops of fruit. Plums, apples, pears, and cherries this year seem 
alike profuse. is was more than some of us had expected after 
the sunless skies of last summer ; but, as Mr. Farrah remarked, these 
trees bloom off their old wood. The hawthorn, which relies upon 
the buds formed last year, is almost flowerless this spring. 
The great rarity of the excursion was the Dwarf Cornel, which, 
scattered sparingly over the higher Scotch mountains, in England 
lingers only on these moors. Many a pilgrimage has been made to 
the shrine of this lowly flower—may all its votaries treat it with 
reverence! The rarer plants found were 
Trollius europzeus. 
Trientalis europea. 
Aquilegia vulgaris. Symphytum officinale. 
Reseda luteola. Pinguicula vulgaris. 
Helianthemum chamecistus. Plantago media. 
Cerastium arvense. Polygonum bistorta. 
Genista anglica. Myrica gale 
*runus padus, Salix r 
Spirza filipendula, Empetr 
Saxifraga hypnoides Fae latifolia, 
rchis morio. 
Eriophorum vaginatum. 
Cornus suecica. Eriophorum angustifolium. 
Polystichum lobatum. 
zea. dilatata. 
Phegopteris dryopteris. 
In all some 220 species of flowering plants and vascular crypto- 
grams were identified. 
_ Mr. M. B, Slater, F.L.S., reported on the Mosses and Hepatics 
found growing in the upper part of Newton Dale, in Saltersgate Beck, 
and on the moors near the Hole of Horcum. In so short a time as 
there is to collect during an excursion, it is impossible to gather all 
that grow in the district. He has, however, worked the ground a good 
many years, and can certify that all that are named in the following 
list are to be met with, and although he did not gather all that day, 
most of those named were seen growing, some of them not being in 
condition for good specimens. r. R. Barnes rambled over rather 
different ground to Mr. Slater. The district is a very rich one for 
July 1895. i 
