A LOCAL RAMBLE AND FUNGUS HUNT. 



By F. A. Lees, F.L.S., and Wm. West. 



Nine members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union met together at 

 Church Fenton in August last. As Mr. G. E. Massee was present, 

 it was deemed best to devote our chief attention to fungi during our 

 unofficial ramble, and his presence caused our fungus- hunt to be very- 

 prolific, for such an early time. The route from the station was along 

 a lane to Mill'ord House Farm; thence u.w. by line along dikes for 

 a mile, to the point where the drain from N. Milford Hall to Cold- 

 well Head plantation crosses under the railway ; thence w. to 

 Towton village ; then n. to Towton tollbar ; then along windings of 

 river Cock, n.w. through Scavy Carrs to Wingate Hill above 

 Stutton, then through Taylor Hill Wood to Jackdaw Crag Quarry ; 

 thence to Boston Spa by Oglethorpe Ings (with their old native 

 yew trees). 



After tea, Messrs, Massee, Lister, and Lees explored Sweep Wood 

 and Beilby Wood, between Boston and Wetherby. On the following 

 morning the same three persons investigated Beaumont's and Horn 

 Bank Woods, on north bank of Wharfe below Wetherby, towards 

 and as far as Flint Mills. Tlie same party afterwards had a rapid 

 run through Askham Bog. The chief results of the ramble are 

 enumerated below, partly in the order of their occurrence, the fungi 

 being classed together for better comparison. 



VASCULARES. 



Eupatorium cannabinum 



Salix rubra 



Stellaria aquatica 



Brachypodium sylvaticum 



B. pinnatum 



Tanacetum vulgare 



Samolus Valerandi 



Potamogeton plantagineus, Ducros. 



Typha latifolia 



T. angustifolia 



Slum angustifolium 



Senecio erucitolius 



Juncus obtusiflorus 



QEnanthe peucedanifolia, Poll. 



Zannichellia macrostemon, Gay. 



Dipsacus sylvestris 



Thalictrum flavum 



Poa compressa 



Cichorium Intybus 

 Hordeum pratense 

 AlHum oleraceum 

 Sanguisorba officinalis 

 Arctium intermedium, Lange. 

 Mentha rubra 

 Scirpus lacustris 

 Pamassia palustris 

 Symphytum officinale 

 Linaria minor 

 Campanula glornerata 

 Nepeta Cataria 

 Asperula cynanchica 

 Picris hieracioides 

 Asplenium Trichomanes 

 Verbascum Thapsus 

 Hieracium umbeliatum 

 Sagina nodosa 



