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PoTAMOGETON ANGUSTiFOLius Bertch & Presl. (P. Zisii). Dist. 2. 

 Rostherne Mere, Lord de Tabley sp. in herb ! (as lucens) 

 is another addition to the county. There is no date to these 

 specimens, and they are the only ones I have seen from 

 Cheshire. 



PoTAMOGETOX Friesii Rupr. P. mucroiiatus Schrad.'). It is 

 odd that under the name of compresses Smith (which is 

 P. Friesii oi Smith's herbarium) the author remarks, ' I do 

 not give it as belonging- to the county,' yet under P. 

 mucronatus he names a locality and says that D. Syme 

 passed it as that plant. No doubt this may be explained 

 by the fact that the one was written after the other and 

 never revised. A few other notes add to the account g^iven 

 of the species. 



Stellaria neglecta Weihe (as S. umbrosa Opiz.). Morley 

 Wood, near Moberley, J. Britten, J. of Botany, 245, 1871. 



Saxifraga Hirculus L. ' Still exists on Knutsford Moor, but 

 is almost destroyed by the rapacity of some individuals who 

 have dug- it up for sale in the most remorseless manner,' 

 Dr. J. B. Wood, Phyt. i, 282, 1842. A later and more 

 definite date than in the Flora. 



Statice ' Auricul.^:folia Vahl.' Still on Hilbre Island in 1873, 

 R. Brown, sp. in the form intermedia of Syme. 



Scheuchzeria palustris L. It is probable that Cheshire is the 

 only county in which this now exists, as I fear Mr. Beck- 

 with's Salopian station has it no longer. 



PoLYGONATUM MULTIFLORUM All. Bolesworth, July 1859, A. 

 Croall sp. 



NATURE STUDY IN EAST YORKSHIRE. 



On Saturday, 21st November, the East Riding Nature Study 

 Committee held a very successful exhibition of natural history 

 objects, etc., in the Assembly Rooms, Beverley. It was largely 

 attended by teachers and school managers from all parts of the 

 district. Examples of the work done in some of the East 

 Yorkshire schools were on view, as well as an excellent series 

 of exhibits from the Leeds and Liverpool schools which had 

 been lent for the occasion. The Hull Scientific and Field 

 Naturalists' Club had collections of flowering plants, ferns and 

 mosses, sea-weeds, photographs, geological specimens, etc., 

 and a few cases showing the life history of insects were lent 



1904 January i. 



