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attempted to lay before you some of the treats wiiicli lie may liave 

 the good fortune to 1 /' ' 'rlii and there are nearly 500 species 

 of plants knov. n. Avh:i - . in. riue zoology is wonderfully rich. For the 

 sportsman there is a little shooting, partridge and guinea-fowl being 

 faii'ly abundant, and sea-fishing being ^vithoiit end. "With a bamboo 

 for a rod, and tmall fry for bait, he may caich four dozen or more good- 

 sized fish in an hour, within the reefs, and if he goes upon the deep 

 water beyond them, as he may do in calm vreather in a good-sized boat, 

 he can catch hammer-head and other sharks, and plenty of big fish. 

 ]\Iy own recollections of the island are very pleasant ones, and I should 

 be far from considering any fate unwelcome which led me to pass 

 another six mouths there. 



YOEKSHIEE XATUEALISTS' rmON.— ORYPTOGAMIC 

 EEPOET FOR 1880. 

 (Concluded.) 



By Wm. West, Chyptogamic Seceetaey. 



Explanation of mirials— G, E. M., G. E. Massee ; H. T. S., H. T. Soppitt : W. W., 



W, West. 



:EJJ^G1— Continued. 



Neciria mammoidea, Phil, and Plow. Scarborough, G. E. M. - 



Hawk^worth. H. T. S. and W. W. 

 N. Ralfsii, Br. Goole, T. Birks. 

 Hypoxylon coccineum, Ball. Scarborough, G. E, M. 

 H. multiforme. Fr. do do 



Hypoxylon fusctim, Fr. do do 



Xummularia BiUiarcli, Tul. Scarborough and Castle Howard, 



G. E. M. 



Eutypa flaYO-virens, Tul. Scarborough, G. E. M. 

 E. spinosa, Tul. Scarborough, G. E. M. 



Dothidea graminis, Fr. do Gordale, W. W. ; Saltaire, 



H. T. S. 



D. filiciaa, Fr. Scarborough, G. E. M. Bingley, H. T. S. & W. W. 



D. strifeformis, Fr. do do 



Melanconis longipes, Tul. Scarborough, G. E. M. 



Yalsa ambiens. do do 



V. tiliae, Tul. Scarborough and Castle Howard, G. E. M. 



Y. leiphemia, Fr. do G. E. M. 



