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Juncus triglumis. 

 Schoenus monoica. 

 Car ex capillaris. 

 Scirpus pauciflorus. 

 Sesleria cmrulea, 

 Poa ParnelUi. 

 Elyna caricina. 



ELOWERLESS PLANTS. 



Equisetum variegatum. E. umhrosum. 

 Botrychium Lunar ia. 

 Poly podium calcareum. 

 '^'"Allosorus crispus. 

 Asplenium viride. 

 Cystopteris fragiUs. 



PolysticMum lonchitis ; probably extirpated. 

 Woodsia ihensis ; very rare, not gathered of late years. 



On the 5th of June, at a monthly meeting of the Bishop Auck- 

 land J^aturalists' Club, recently established, it was unanimously 

 resolved (on the reception, through Mr. Douglas, of Witton-le- 

 Wear, on behalf of Mr. Duff, the President, of twelve volumes 

 of the Transactions of the Tyneside ISTaturalists' Field Club, voted 

 at their last annual meeting, in recognition of a pleasant frater- 

 nization with the Auckland Club, on the occasion of their Pifth 

 Field Meeting, near Bishop Auckland, in September last,) that 

 the best thanks of the meeting be forwarded to the Tyneside 

 Field Club for their gift of twelve volumes of Transactions, 

 with the request that their President, for the time being, become 

 an Honorary Member of the Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field 

 Club. On the 9th of March, 1879, your President was duly 

 elected an Honorary Member, and returned thanks for the same. 



As regards the weather prevalent in May and June ; up to the 

 20th of June it continued to be uncongenial, wet and cold, with 

 thunderstorms, heavy rains, and consequent floods, in various 

 parts of England, and it was only at this date tliat vegetation in 

 our district began to get fully out. Tlie succeeding week was 

 clear and very hot, and, the ground liaving previously been satu- 

 rated with rain, crops of all kind shot u]) with great rapidity, and 



