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j)lants and Geranium sanguiiieum, which showed no flower, bnt may have 
been picked, as had most of the Polemonivm. On the top among flat 
limestone Actaea was found and several ferns growing deep down in 
cracks in the limestone pavement. The dry valley up to Malham Tarn 
was very barren, the only plant of interest being a tree of Sorbus rupi- 
cola. Galium pumilum was found on limestone screes and Hippo crepis, 
behind the house. 
JUNE 18th-21st. LEICESTER. 
Leaders: Prof. T. G. TtmN and Mr F. A. Sowter. 
The meeting opened on Friday evening, June 18th, with a conver- 
sazione held in the Department of Botany, University College, light 
refreshments being provided by the Department. 
The following morning 32 members and friends set off by motor- 
coach to the south of the county to examine the elms in the neighbour- 
hood of Gilmorton and Lutterw'orth. Specimens of Ulwus cnritana Mel- 
ville, TJhnus glabra Huds. and hybrids of these two and Ulmus Plotii 
Druce were collected and their characteristics were explained and dis- 
cussed by Dr Melville. 
The arable fields and roadside hedges of the district were also ex- 
plored. 
The party then moved across the country to the Charnwood Forest 
area where a stop was made at Groby Pool for lunch. Afterwards mem- 
bers examined the interesting flora of the pool and its surroundings. 
Nymphoides peltatum made a fine show in the pool and the sandy mar- 
gin yielded Lirnosella aquatica. Other plants noticed were Porippa 
amphibia, Spergularia rubra, Hypericum humifu-sum, Erodium cicu- 
farium, Trifolium striatum, Ornithopus perpusillus, Typha latifolia, 
I'ypha angustifolia.. 
The next stop was made at Swithland Wood, a sessile oak wood with 
an interesting ground layer, typical of the woodlands of the Charnwood 
Forest. Fine clumps of Oarex pendula were seen. 
Tea was taken at Woodhouse Eaves and afterwards a short time was 
spent on Beacon Hill and Hanging Stone Hills before returning to 
Leicester. 
On Sunday the party left the University again by motor-coach for 
East Leicestershire and Rutland. Tugby Wood (a pedunculate-oak 
wood) was visited first to see Carex strigosa. Vida sylvatica in the same 
locality was just beginning to flower, but unfortunately it was too late 
to see Myosotis sylvatica at its best. A visit was then made to Holywell, 
Lines, (oolitic limestone pasture) which is included in the area put for- 
ward as a Nature Reserve in the report submitted to the Minister of 
Town and County Planning by the local committee. 
The party saw in some profusion Anem.one Pulsatilla, Astragalus 
danicus, Thesium humifus^im, Hippocrepis comosa, Orchis pyramidalis, 
Gymnadenia conopsea, Coeloglossum viride. 
