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'riie Mpheinerum from Bwldi u as K. serratuin var. anniisfifoluun, ahvays 
considered rare, but in point of fact much more abundant than the 
type — people rarely trouble to look at Kphe.inera” . 
[“ It may perha|)s !)c adddt'd that a small Fissidnis fi-om (I\\ in Ranu 
pro\ed to be F. I'jrKjim.s Hull, first identified for Britain from material 
colU'cteil ill Kent in the pre\ ious month.” — E.F.W.]. 
Mem hers of the Party . 
David I’. M. Guile (Ivcader), .James Cadbury, Huf'h Grigg, Dr. E. W. 
.Jones, .John Lo\ is, Peter Norman, Paul Vernon, Dr. E. F. Warburg, 
]\J iss Tessa Willan, 
David J*. M. Guile, 
Nature Conservancy Kesearch Asst., 
Department of Botany, 
University College, 
Newport Road, Cardiff. 
This report, much longer than those usually printed of our Field 
^Meetings, is only part of the leader’s full report. It has been kept 
long and as detailed as it is in the hope that more younger members 
will join this kind of meeting and that botanists engaged in .serious field 
work elsewhere in the country will be encouraged to lead similar meet- 
ings. J. G. D. 
AlTfJTST 1st to 4th, 1952. THIR8K (YORKS.) 
Leader-. Miss C. M. Ron. 
Thirsk is the centre of a well-known and well-worked district. This 
small market town has a long botanical tradition, for .J. G. Baker lived 
here for the early part of his life, as did three generations of Foggitts. 
The absence of any new discoveries made at this meeting is therefore in 
no way surprising. 
The meeting was attended by 27 members and one guest. After the 
the usual opening meeting, the re.st of Friday evening was spent explor- 
ing the Codbeck banks within the town boundary, the only intere,sting 
plant noted being Cicerbifa macroph ylla (Willd.) Wallr., which is well 
established by a small tributary beck. 
On .Saturday the party left by bus for B^dand where a short stop 
was made to collect a mint which is still under discu.ssion. The next 
stop was at Helmsley, where the party was joined by Mr. Adam Gordon, 
Head-keeper for the Feiersham Estates, who took over the leadershii). 
At Helmsley some interesting plants seen were Cirsiuin urvense var. 
setos-uiii C. A. Mey., Hypericum monta^num L., and another colony of the 
Cicerbita, but the main objective was a small valley near Rievaulx, 
which is well known as the locality for a number of interesting plants; 
the lateness of the season was a drawback, as many species were in fruit. 
