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be so, to what plant does the record in Baines's Flora refer ? There C. 

 eriaphorvs is given as occurring "Market Weighton to Londesbro.'" — 

 G. Webster, Holgate, 12th July. 



A Xew West-Eidixg Sedge. — Carex capillaris, a pretty httle sedge, 

 untn now has been known in but twelve British counties. To these 

 Mr. William West has added a thirteenth, by his discovery of it 

 in Gordale. It grows on the mural scar, at an altitude of about 1000 

 feet, on the left hand as the gorge is ascended, above the debris at the 

 base of the cliff, but a Little below the narrow plain forming the summit. 

 It would appear to be very local, as I have been at the very spot indicated 

 several times and never noticed it. This addition of Carex capillaris to 

 the West-Riding flora is interesting in many ways. In Upper Teesdale 

 it occurs with. Relianthera)rni canu 111 s.Tidi PotentiUa cdjyestris, Dryas odo- 

 jjetalu and Kohresia cariciaa. We now know all these, except the last 

 named, in the Craven district. Who will be the lucky finder of the 

 Kohresia on the Malham, Sedbergh, or Cam Fell moors \ It is very 

 likely to occur. Formerly only the Dryas was known in Craven, next 

 the PotentiUa, next the Cistus, and now the Carex, have been discovered, 

 leaving only the Kohresia to make the geographical alhance as complete 

 in West Yorkshire as in Teesdale. I am glad to say that INIr. West's 

 discovery comes in time for inclusion in the West-Riding flora which 

 will form Vol. TI. of the work on "West Yorkshire," of which the first 

 volume has just been issued. — F. Arnold Lees, F.L S. 



AxoTHER Moss NEW TO YORKSHIRE. — The West-Riding must take rank 

 as possessing the richest moss flora of any tract of equal area in Great 

 Britain. I lia^e just received specimens, from the acute bryologists who 

 have made the discovery, of Seligeria tristicha, Brid., from near Litton in 

 Arncliffe-dale, near ^\Tiarfedale-head. This pretty little moss was collected 

 by Messrs. S. Ashton and J. WTiitehead, off dripping scar-limestone rocks, 

 in June last, in the locality specified. The moss is not only new to York- 

 shire but to England as well, the only stations hitherto known for it beiag 

 in the Blair Athole district of the Scottish Highlands. It is a sub- 

 montane species, like most of its genus ; and xerophilous — dry-loving, 

 i.e. limestone preferring — in its role of dispersion. Its discovery in our 

 area brings up the number of West -Riding mosses to 330, out of the 569 

 so far known for all Great Britain. The last species, previous to this 

 Seligeria, added to our moss flora was Polytrichuni stridum, Banks, found 

 on Ingleborough slope by Mr. Wm. West, of Bradford. As his modesty 

 has apparently kept him from sending a notice of his discovery to your 

 journal himself, I may as well place the find " on record for him. Mr. 

 Boswell has certiaed to the name. — F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S., July 18th. 



Correction. — In your report of the delightful exciu-sion and interesting 

 meeting held at Brough on Whit Monday, will you permit me to rectify 

 a mistake relative to the name of an insect i ^^llen I consider that the 



