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Aconitum Napellus, Pemcedanum Ostruthium, Saxifraga hypnoides, and 

 Nonnea lutea, a weed from the Levant. Mosses were plentiful, with the 

 exception of those of corticolous habit ; 84 kinds were observed, among 

 i;hose of less frequent occurrence being Gymnostomum microstomum, 

 Racomitrium aciculare, R. heterostichum, Bryum pallens, Mnium 

 serratum, M. subglobosum, Neckera crispa, Thamnium alopecurum, 

 Climacium dendroides, Hyocomium flagellare, Plagiothecium elegans, 

 Hypnum cordifolium, giganteum, and stramineum. Several rarely 

 fertile kinds were found in fruit, as Hypnum fluitans. The Hepaticse 

 were 11, and included Scapania nemorosa, Aneura pinnatifida, (?) fr., 

 and Jungermannia barbata, var. attenuata. Saxicolous lichens were 

 plentiful, but corticolous kinds were scarce, as usual in the West Riding, 

 Among the species observed were Evernia furfuracea, Lecanora parella, 

 and Lecidea contigua. The algae found were Palmogloea macrococca, 

 Glseocapsa polydermatica, and Cladophora glomerata. The fungi included 

 Agaricus umbelliferus and muralis, Trichobasis oblongata, T. linearis, 

 Puccinia adoxse, and ^cidium valerianacearum. At the general meeting 

 the president remarked the difference between the flora of Wharf edale and 

 and that of the gritstone district of South Yorkshire, many limestone 

 plants being found around Ilkley which were not seen in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sheffield. This he attributed to the large number of limestone 

 boulders present in the glacial beds, with which, in the lower levels of 

 the Wharfe valley, the millstone grit was covered up. — Mr. C. H. 

 Bothamley, of Leeds, reported the progress made by the Exhibition 

 ■Committee, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to Messrs. 

 B. Illingworth and Wm. West, of Bradford. 



The third Meeting for 1878 was held at Brough on Whit Monday, 10th 

 June, being the first occasion on which the Union had met outside the 

 West Riding. There was a large muster of members from thirteen of 

 the societies in union, and they were joined by a large number of 

 naturalists from the district — Hull, Beverley, Driffield, &c. The country 

 explored included Brough, Welton, Drewton Vale, North and South 

 Cave, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Market Weighton, Staddlethorpe, Black- 

 toft, Broomfleet, &c. After tea and sectional meetings, the general 

 meeting opened at 5-45 p.m. in the large room of the Station Hotel, 

 Brough. In the absence of the president, Mr. E. Hunter, F.C.S., of 

 Goole, was called to the chair. The minutes were taken as read, and the 

 roll being called, exactly half the Societies were found to be totally 

 unrepresented. The represented Societies were, the Huddersfield, 

 Barnsley, Wakefield, Ovenden and Bradford Naturalists' Societies ; Leeds 

 Naturalists Club, Goole Scientific Society, York and District Naturalists' 

 Society, Selby Naturalists' Society, Huddersfield Literary and Scientific 

 Society, Huddersfield Scientific Club, Conchological Society (Leeds ), and 

 Bradford Scientific Association. The total attendance was over 100. 

 The Driffield Literary and Philosophical Society was admitted into union, 



