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GOODYERA REPFNS IN S.E. YORKSHIRE. 



James Spencer. — On the occurrence of a boulder of Granitoid 

 Gneiss or Gneissoid Granite, in the Halifax Hard Bed Coal. 



G. W. Lamflugh. — Report on an Ancient Sea Beach near 

 Bridlington. 



Prof. W. C. Williamson. — Report on the Flora of the Carbon- 

 iferous Rocks of Lancashire and West Yorkshire. 



Prof. Newton. — On the Irruption of Syrrhaptes paradoxus. In 

 the course of his remarks, Prof Newton stated that he had evidence 

 that Pallas' Sand-Grouse had nested this year in the neighbourhood of 

 Beverley. 



Prof. Newton. — Report of the Committee on Migration of 

 Birds. The Report stated that the inquiry had been continued for 

 nine years, and that an immense number of facts had been collected 

 and brought together in the Annual Reports in connection with the 

 seasonal movements of birds on the British coasts. They now 

 wished to utilize, digest, and classify the mass of information at their 

 disposal. The committee had much pleasure in stating that one of 

 their number, Mr. William Eagle Clarke, of the Museum of Science 

 and Art in Edinburgh, had undertaken the laborious task of thus 

 reducing the mass of observations collected. At a subsequent 

 meeting of the Biological section, the name of your delegate was 

 added to the committee. 



The General Committee of the Association unanimously accepted 

 the invitation of Leeds to hold their 1890 meeting in that town. 



September \^th, 1888. 



NOTES— BOTANY, 



Good vera repens near Market Weighton, S.E. Yorks. — Mr. J. Beanland 

 has shoN.a me a plant gathered in Houghton Hall Woods on the occasion of 

 the Market Weighton meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; thirty or 

 forty plants of it were seen. It is undoubtedly Goodyera repens R.Br., which 

 Mr." Beanland thought it might be, as he found that it did not agree with 

 Spiranthes aiitiunnalis, which I believe it was thought to be. It will, no doubt, 

 have been accidentally introduced with coniferous plantings. — W.M. West, Brad- 

 ford, August 29th, 1888. 



Goodyera repens near Market Weig-hton. — Although in my report of 

 plants collected at the excursion I included, under the name di Spiranthes autiiin- 

 nalis, the rare orchid gathered in Houghton Hall Wood by Mr. J. Marshall, I was 

 suspicious that it would prove to be another plant. Since then I have re-examined 

 it. and Mr. George Webster has compared it with Goodyera repens K. Br._(a. plant 

 I have myself never seen either growing or dried) ; he confirms me that it is that 

 species. It is thus a much rarer plant than the Spiranthes, and being of a northern 

 and arctic type, the find is of great botanical significance. This appears to be the 

 first record for Yorkshire ; Mr. Baker, however, in his Lake Flora, mentions it — 

 on the authority of Mr. F. Arnold Lees— as growing in a fir plantation near the 

 Eden at Armathwaite. Bentham and Babington cite it as in the fir forests of the 

 North of Scotland, and in Bouvier's Flore des Alpes, its habitat is thus given : 

 Bois du Jura et des Alpes, et dans les bois de Sapins a la faucille, au Colombier. — 

 >L B. Slater, ^Lllton, 26th September, 1888. 



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