1 24 Waddington : Bee Orchis at Scarborough and Micklefield. 



Fungi. Lichens. 

 Amanita rubescens. Parmelia physodes. 



Boletus flavus. Peltigera canina. 



Boletus subtomentosus. Avery Cladonia pyxidata. 



fine specimen collected by 



Miss Stow. 



These were found in Lincolnshire. I am always glad to do any- 

 thing- for a friend like Mr. Fowler. 



Of Flowering Plants about 160 were observed. These were 

 the best: — Poly gala vulgaris, blue and red, with one patch of 

 white, in Nottinghamshire ; Montia fontana, Hypericum pulchrum., 

 Filago minima, in Nottinghamshire ; Scleranthus annuus, abun- 

 dant in cornfield and on moor ; Agrostis palustris , aristata Sinclair,, 

 was very fine on moor. 



The Mosses recorded by Miss S. C. Stow were thirty species. 

 The following were new to South Lincolnshire at the time : — 



Polytrichum piliferum Schreb. Aulacomnium palustre Sehwg. 



Campylopus flexuosus Brid. Plagiothecium undulatum B.&S. 



The rest have gone into the Register. I have to thank. Miss 

 Stow, Prof. Carr, and Mr. Preston for much help in making out 

 full reports for our Registers. 



NOTE— BOTANY. 

 Bee Orchis at Scarborough and near Micklefield.— In Mr. F. 



Arnold Lees' article, 'An Old Leeds Herbary,' there is one item which has 

 interested me very much. He says, ' Fifty years ago (1836) the Bee Orchis 

 grew at Scarcroft . . . now of a surety relegated for ever to farther 

 fields.' The Bee Orchis (Op/irys apifera) is a favourite of mine, and I have 

 verv pleasant recollections of rambles with an old friend of mine, 

 Walter James Fletcher, some years ago a member of the Leeds Club, 

 searching for the plant. We were staying at Scarborough at the time, and 

 a specimen was on view in the Museum, labelled ' Forge Valley,' and we 

 determined to lose no time in trying to find it. We spent the best part of 

 a week 'looking-,' including in our rambles 'Bee Dale,' a most beautiful 

 spot, finding many things, but not the one. We had given the job up, and 

 on. the last day in the week were in Forg-e Valley with some friends, when 

 my friend called out he had found Cyclostoma elegans, a weathered 

 specimen, and as he was interested in conchology we began to search for 

 living specimens. The place looked like a quarry, all stony, with no g-rass 

 or shrubs near, and in this barren spot was our long-looked-for gem, the 

 Bee Orchis. I think had anyone seen us there, two sober individuals, 

 dancing like cannibals round the plant, they would have thought us mad. 

 It seemed such a treasure that we hardly dared pluck it. There were 

 twelve altogether ; we only took three, one each and one to send to a friend 

 on the Leeds Mercury. You will be asking what this has to. do with the 

 Leeds Herbary. Well, I am coming to it. Last year (1899) I had been 

 with some friends to Hook Moor and was taking a near cut through the 

 coal-yards between Micklefield and Garforth, and came across my old friend 

 the Bee Orchis, and I thought it might interest Mr. Lees to hear that it 

 was still to be found so near Leeds. Should any Leeds naturalist find it, 

 and it seems only to be found where other floweVs are not, remember 

 this, leave it, and let it tell its own story of what was. — J. Waddington, 

 38, Leicester Grove, Leeds, 24th March 1900. 



[We re-echo Mr. Waddfhgton's closing sentence. — Eds. Nat.] 



Naturalist, 



