Yorkshire Naturalists at Ripon. 



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to the growth of these plants. Nowhere was seen a luxuriance 

 of mosses, such as may be seen elsewhere in the Riding-. In 

 the route taken there was no sign of either Bog- Mosses 

 (Sphag-na) or of any of the Harpidioid Hypna. Five Hepatics 

 or Liverworts were seen, four of them being; frondose and only 

 one foliose. The former are Conocephaliun coiiicum, in abundant 

 fruit ; Lunularia cruciata, in the g-emmiferous state ; Blasia 

 piLsilla, and Pellia epiphylla, all by the Skell. Mr. Johnson 

 found the only foliose one, Plagiochila asplenioides var. Dilleiiiiy 

 by the side of a wood. The true mosses gave the best results. 

 Rare mosses are : — A large state of Brachytheciiun populeum 

 and Lejicodon sciiiroides on a wall by the side of the path. 

 Fissidens crassipes also occurs, but in the barren state. The 

 other mosses seen and examined, but not mentioned in the List 

 in the Union Circular, are A^nhlystegium serpens, EurJiynchium 

 niurale, E. ruscifornie , and Fontinalis antipyretica of the Pleuro- 

 carpous Division of Mosses, and Barhula ruhella^ B. lurida, 

 and B. cylindrical of the Acrocarpous Division. 



Mr. C. Crossland writes : — About twenty species of fungi 

 were met with, mostly of common occurrence. Among- them 

 were Pluteus cervijius, Pholiota prcecox, Psilocyhe fcBuisecii, 

 Anellaria separata, Polys tic tns versicolor. Porta blepharistoma, 

 Steremn piLrpureum, S. hirsutiim, Corticium calcium , ci.nd Lycogala 

 epidendron. Exidia glandidosa was found growing- on a bared 

 root-branch of a living" oak. One of the most interesting- things 

 found was Mitrophora semilibera, one of the spring morels. 

 A fine specimen of Peziza reticulata was picked up in Fountains 

 Abbey grounds ; also Dasyscypha sul/urea, the latter on decaying 

 herbaceous stem. The remains of a dead thorn tree lying in a 

 damp field were overhauled, and yielded Dcedalea latissiiua, 

 Dialonectria sanguinea, Dusyscypiia uivea, Mollisea cineiea, 

 and Trichia varia. Helotiuin citrinuui was seen to be com- 

 mencinof its season's orrowth in its accustomed matrix — rotten 

 wood — in Mackershaw Wood. Gyro?nitra esculeiita was, care- 

 fully looked for, but without success. Mr. Waterfall reported 

 Morchella esculenta from near Tanfield. 



Mr. A. J. Stather writes : — The Geological Section once 

 more demonstrated the fact that it is possible to spend an 

 interesting and profitable day geologising without the aid of 

 a large hammer and numerous collecting boxes. 



Under the guidance of the Rev. W. Lower Carter, and with 

 the help of maps specially prepared by Prof. P. F. Kendall, tho 

 party set out to investigate the conditions of the Skell \'alley 



1905 June I. 



