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hemiste?noti Miill. and R. cordifoliiis W. & N. of tlie affinis section, 

 and R. calvatus of the villicaides. No special name has been given 

 it, although Mr. J. G. Baker himself says it is not quite like any form 

 known to him; and further, R. lindleiamis {jiUidus Bell Salt.) is said 

 in Stud. Flo., ii8, to be unknown on the continent, i.e., not correlat- 

 able with any continental type. Under these circumstances it seems a 

 pity that it has no scientific cognomen ; to remove which disability 

 and connect the name of John Gilbert Baker by one more (and that 

 a natural) link wTth his native county, for the botany of which he has 

 done so much, it is proposed (by F. A. Lees; to name it Ruhus 

 hakeri (provisionally, at any rate, until shown to be identified with 

 some form already named), and to give it this title, not as a distinct 

 species, but as a variety of the Rubiis affi?2is of English authors (said 

 by Mr. Baker to be essentially the same super-species as R. Diontajiiis 

 Wirtg.), intermediate between R. nitidus Weihe (of the siiberecti 

 section) and R, carpinifoliics Weihe (and Bab. Man.), to which rather 

 than to R. lindleiafms its racemose narrow panicle and hairy rachis 

 approximates it. 



The other plants noticed in stations ?wt given in ' North Yorkshire' 

 were Chara fatida var. atrovirens (Decoy pond, Thirkleby), of which 

 the wild and decoy ducks were said to be very fond; Typha angusti- 

 folia and Carex vesicaria (Decoy); Pyriis com??mnis (hedge, bird- 

 sown, near Whitestonecliff) ; Hypericum Jmniifusum and Erythrcsa 

 centaiiri 117)1, in dry places ; and Scolopendriuni vu/gare, on Whitestone- 

 cliff; whilst the colonising casual, Diplotaxis iniLralis^ with its large 

 branched state babin^onii, was seen to be getting well established 

 on waste ground by the sidings at Thirsk Station, on which for thirty 

 years or more its near ally, D. tejinifolia, has been known to exist. 



Among the moisture-loving mosses, as among shells, little could 

 be done, since nearly everything was dried up. One Bog-moss 

 {Sphagnum papillosum type) was found in the bog at Gormire 

 (north end) ; and the remains of Seligeria recurvata^ Brachyodiis 

 trickodes^ with Grimmia tridiophylla^ by the Whitestonecliff, and 

 one fungus, Entoloma sericea Bull., growing amid wet bog-moss — an 

 unusual habitat for a pascual species. 



The report of the Geological Section was given by Mr. S. A. 

 Adamson, F.G.S., one of the sectional secretaries, who stated that 

 for a short distance from Thirsk the flat Keuper marls were passed 

 over, then a long slightly undulating surface, gradually increasing in 

 altitude, of the Lower Lias succeeded before reaching the secluded 

 village of Sutton-under-Whitestonecliff. A more decided ascent 

 was now made, and on the left a quarry was noted, showing a 

 splendid section. This is the Cleaves Quarry, and the Dogger has 



Aug. 1887. 



