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SPARGANIUM RAMOSUM VAR. MICROCARPUM 

 IN YORKSHIRE. 



p. FOX LEE, 



Secretary for Phaficrogaviia to the Botanical Sectioti of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union; 

 President of the Deivsbiiry Naturalists' Society; Member of the Botatiical Record Club, etc. 



When Mr. W. H. Beeby a few years ago demonstrated to the 

 botanical world that Sparganium neglectum was no longer confined 

 to the Continent only, but was a true British species, many gatherings 

 of what had hitherto been regarded typical Sparganium ramosum 

 were sent to him from all parts of the country with the hope that the 

 new segregate {S. negledirm) might be detected amongst them. 



During last autumn I found a new patch of Spargania (for the 

 Dewsbui-y district) in the marshy corner of a small thicket near 

 Bretton in S. W. Yorkshire, only a few miles from Dewsbury, the form 

 of whose fruit (i.e. each drupe in the globose heads) seemed to 

 approach the new segregate, and I sent some specimens labelled 

 Sparganium neglectum^ Beeby, to the Watson Bot. Exch. Club. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett, one of the Club's referees, submitted them 

 to Mr. Beeby, who states in the Fourth Annual Report, 1887-8, 

 p. 13, of the Watson Club recently issued, that my gathering is not 

 S. neglectum^ but a var. of S. ramosum called microcarpum of 

 Neumann. Mr. A. Bennett, in a letter just received, says: — 'The 

 var. of Sparganium ramosum is a continental one, not yet in our 

 manuals ; it will be published in a Swedish Monograph of the Order 

 separately, and conjointly with the new edition of Hartmann's 

 Handbook of the Scandinavian Flora (ed. 12). It is the form of 

 ramosum that is {\) continually mistaken for neglectum. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



It is a pleasure to geologists, not only in Yorkshire but throughout the country, 

 to hear of the birth of another geological society, namely, at Hull. Hitherto, 

 Leeds only in Yorkshire has possessed a local society established purely for the 

 study of geology ; now it has a friendly rival at Hull. Long may they co-operate 

 and flourish! It would appear that from the good work the Leeds Association 

 has done throughout Yorkshire, the 'golden opportunities' of its members have 

 been envied ; hence a desire that in the large and prosperous borough of Hull, so 

 well placed in many ways for the study, an association of this nature should be 

 formed. This is now an accomplished fact, as a week or two ago a preliminary 

 meeting of gentlemen interested in the science was held, at which the society 

 was constituted, and the first officers elected. The executive are: — President, 

 Dr. F. F. Walton ; vice-presidents, the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., Mr. W. Hunt 

 (editor of the ' Eastern Morning News'), and Dr. J. Walton; secretary, Mr. J. W, 

 .Stather ; treasurer, Mr. W. Dixon ; committee, Alessrs. J. Stears, E. A. Peake, 



J. Carter (late of Leeds), M. Carmichael, and G. Silabon. 



Naturalist, 



