228 THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT AYSGARTH. 
Oxytelus laqueatus. Phzedon vaaperaiat 
Aphodius fossor. Phytodecta olivacea. 
Aphodius hoc ater Phyllodecta viteliine: 
Aphodius inatus. Apion vio! 
Aphi ius Gildas Apion trifolii 
Aph ter. Apion apri 
Geotrupes stercorarius. Otiorhynchus pi ss cipes. 
Geotrupes vernalis. Tropiphorus tomentosus. 
Athoiis hemorrhoidalis. Polydrusus micans. 
Athoiis vittatus. Polydrusus pterisgomalis. 
Dolopius marginatus. Phyllobius oblongus. 
Melandrya canaliculata. Phyllobius urtice. 
Corymbites quercus Phyllobi i 
Corymbites pectinicornis Phyllobius argentatus. 
Corymbites cupreus. Phyllobius viridiceris. 
A Sitones lineatus. 
Telephorus bicolor. celiodes quadrimaculatus. 
Telephorus nigricans v. discoideus. Ceuthorrhynchus assimilis. 
Telephorus hemorrhoidalis. Ceuthorrhynchus contractus. 
Rhagonycha limbata. Liosoma ovatulum 
Phzedon cochleariz. Rhinonchus subfasciatus. 
The Botanical Section was very strongly represented, those 
present including Mr. P. F. Lee (President), Mr. Albert H. Pawson 
(Secretary); Mr. W. Foggitt, of Thirsk; Mr. J. B. Foggitt, of 
Southport; Mr. R. Barnes, of Saltburn ; ati Mr. J. J. Marshall, of 
Market Weighton. The report was given by Mr. Albert H. 
Pawson, who also supplies the following account :— . 
The fine development of the Yoredale rocks, which are so inter- 
esting to the geologists in this part of the dale, is observed with great — 
pleasure by the botanist also, for he knows that each zone of the 
series will yield him a new list of plants. On the grit which caps the 
summits are the heaths and the moor berries—bilberry, crowberry, © 
cowberry, cloudberry, and cranberry ; the cotton grasses, and many 
rushes and sedges, all the plants which seek a high exposure, peaty 
soil, and stagnant moisture. The limestone scar lower down, and 
the short, sweet turf of its talus will have none of these burly ] 
citizens, but keeps choice company in its delicate spleenworts and 
_ saxifrages, drabas, geraniums, and rock-roses. The beds of shale 
which overlie it redeem it from the great dryness of the mountain 
limestone of Craven, and provide trickling ledges for the butterwort, ae 
patches, such as the bird’s eye primrose loves, a 
__damp pai 
out of ne the columbine may rear her lovely head ; and again the 
tich 1 e formed by the decomposition of these various rocks, 
cs peat, FN NawT limestone, and shale, gives the woods and meadows . 
_and pastures of the lowest slopes vol she dale & ep He he 
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