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NOTE on YORKSHIRE FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Gagea I urea near Silsden. — I wish to place on record the occurrence 

 of Gagea lutea Ker. , in Lower Airedale. On 13th April of the present year 

 a gentleman informed a Skipton friend of mine of a plant he had found in a 

 plantation at Swartha, Silsden. From his description my friend judged 

 that it must be none other than Gagea lutea, so he advised him to send on 

 a few specimens for identification. On 16th May I myself had the pleasure 

 of seeing these, and can therefore vouch for the specimens being, although 

 only mutilated ones, certainly Gagea lutea Ker. ; so that the record is one 

 of very great interest for the lower part of Airedale, seeing that Mr. F. A. 

 Lees in his ' Flora of West Yorkshire ' does not g-ive a single note of the 

 plant for that part of the Aire valley ; and considering that the plant has 

 during- the last ten years been recorded in no less than three localities for 

 Wharfedale, it is very singular that it should not have been recorded for 

 Airedale before now. — Lister Rotheray, Market Square, Long Preston, 

 R.S.O., 9th June 1902. 



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NOTE on YORKSHIRE MOSSES. 

 Additional Records of Harpidioid Hypna in Yorkshire. — The 



following are additions to my list of Harpidioid Hypna of Yorkshire and 

 Durham published in ' The Naturalist,' March 1902 : — 



t. Hypnam aduncum Hedw., Group typicum Ren., forma falcata Ren., 

 Naburn (61) ; Group pseudofluitans Sanio, var. paternnm Sanio, forma 

 gracilis Ren. MS., Naburn (61) and submerged in pool, Askham Bog- (64). 



2. Hypnum fluitans L., Group amphibiam Ren., forma Holleri (Sanio) 

 Ren., Skipwith Common (61); forma condensata Sanio, Skipwith Common 

 (6t); forma terrestris Sanio, Skipwith Common (61); var. gracile Boul., 

 forma laxifolia Ren., Skipwith Common (61). 



Group falcatum Ren., var. alpinum Sanio, Skipwith Common (61). 



Group exannulatum Ren., var. pinnatum Boul., Strensall Common (62) ; 

 forma gracilescens Ren., Strensall Common (62) ; forma polycla da Ren. MS., 

 Skipwith Common (61), fine and typical. 



Sub-group Rota? Ren., var. falcifolium Ren., Strensall (62), a small form, 

 truly typical ; forma inundata Ren., in pool on top of Widdy Bank, Teesdale 

 (66)'. Mr. Wheldon has kindly confirmed the above. — Wm. Ingham, York, 

 30th June 1902. 



NORTHERN NOTES and NEWS. 



Dr. A. W. Rowe, F.G. S., who has done so much work on the Zones of 

 the White Chalk of the South of England, has recently visited Yorkshire, 

 together with Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S. These gentlemen spent 

 some weeks on the magnificent cliff sections around Flamborough Head- 

 land, and the result of their work is awaited with interest. 



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Probably one of the most important contributions to the Glacial literature 

 of our northern counties that has been made for some time is a paper by 

 Professor P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., the President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, recently read to the Geological Society of London. This was on 

 'A System of Glacial-Lakes in the Cleveland Hills.' The paper will 

 probably appear in extenso in the next issue of the Society's journal. 



Mr. Edward Lamplough, of Hull, has issued a book of ' Hull Sonnets' 

 for private circulation, several of them dedicated to naturalist friends: — 

 ' For often underneath the blue 



We've trod the grass and plucked the scented bloom, 

 And vowed it was a joy to simply live 

 And revel 'mid the greenwood and the dew, 



Wrapped in the gay breeze and its rich perfume.' 



Naturalist, 



