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season, and tlie cold and dull weather of the day, had reduced the 

 captures of insects to a rainimum. Dr. Parsons, of Goole, secretary to 

 the Botanical Section, reported that the places visited had been Ingleton, 

 H elk's Wood, Thornton Force, Chapel-le-dale, Weathercote Cave, Ingle- 

 borough, T^Tiernside, Dent, Sedbergh, Howgill Fells, Bow Fell, Hawes 

 Junction, &c. Owing to the earliness of the date, and the backwardness 

 of the season, few flowering plants had been observed compared with what 

 would have been seen later in the season. The district, owing to its great 

 variety of soil and diversity of surface, would no doubt yield a rich and 

 varied flora. As it was, 103 phgenogams were observed, including several 

 rare alpine species, as Alchemilla alpina (Cautley Spout), Saxifraga oppo- 

 sitifoHa, plentiful and in flower on an escarpment of Yoredale limestone, 

 high up on Ingleborough ; also Draba muralis, Alsine verna, Paibus 

 Chameemorus, Sedum Telephium, Saxifraga hypnoides, Chrysosplenium 

 alternifolium, Yaccinium Oxycoccos, and Y. Yitis-Idsea, Taxus baccata, 

 and Sesleria cserulea. Ferns and their allies were plentiful, 19 kinds 

 having been observed, including Hymenophyllum unilaterale, Crypto- 

 gamme crispa, Asplenium viride, Lycopodium clavatum, Selago and alpi- 

 num, Selaginella selaginoides. In mosses and lichens the district had 

 proved extremely rich, the variety and luxuriance of the kinds met with 

 far exceeding anything seen at any previous meeting of the Union. Of 

 the different kinds of rock met with in the district, each yielded its own 

 particular mosses and lichens. It was remarked that the mosses and 

 lichens characteristic of alpine regions descended lowest on the slate, 

 whereas the common lowland kinds ascended highest on the limestone. 

 The total number of mosses, so far as hitheito made out, is 130, including 

 Andrefea rupestris, Gymnostomum squarrosum, Dicranella squarrosa, 

 Seligeria pusilla and recurvata, Distichum capillaceum (fr.) Encalypta 

 rhabdocarpa, Grimmia orbicularis and Donniana (fr.) Racomitrium five 

 species (fr.) Amphoridium Mougeotii, I71ota intermedia (fr.) Orthotrichum 

 Lyellii (fr.) Splachnum sphfericum, Bartramia CEderi, Breutelia arouata, 

 Zieria julacea, Mnium stellare, Polytrichum strictum (fr.) Diphyscium 

 foliosum (fr.) Hedwigia ciliata (fr.) Pseudo-leskea catenulata, Hypnum 

 ochraceum and scor^jioides, Hylocomium loreum (fr.) and brevi- 

 rostre. Many rarely fertile mosses were found in fruit, as Eucladium 

 verticillatum, Plagiothecium undulatum, Hylocomium triquetrum, &c. 

 The Hepaticse included Reboulia hemisphserica, Gymnomitrium concin- 

 natum, Madotheca laevigata, &c. Of lichens, upwards of 50 species were 

 recognised, including Spheerophoron coralloides, Stereocaulon coralloides, 

 Cetraria islandica, Peltigera horizontalis and aphthosa, Solorina saccata, 

 Stictina fuliginosa, Parmelia c-aperata, perlata and conspersa, Urnbilicaria 

 proboscidea, Placodium candicans, Lecanora ventosa, aurantiaca, atra, 

 cinerea and badia, Lecidea geographica, and Endocarpa miniatum and 

 fluviatile. These lists will no doubt be largely added to, when the 

 examination of the specimens is completed. —Mr. C. H. Bothamley, of 



