New Botanical Records for North Yorkshire. 5 
Levisham and Cawthorne Camps, recorded by Dr. 
Braithwaite. 
3. Andromeda poli folia at Balderdale, discovered in 1884 
by W. Foggitt, of Thirsk, and A. Smith, of Durham. 
4. Linncea borealis on Silpho Moor between Scarborough 
and Whitby, discovered in 1863 by John Tissiman. 
Unless we can glean some reliable information relative 
to these plants the records should be either omitted from a 
future edition of Baker’s Flora, or a note appended stating 
that the plants are not known at these stations at the present 
time. 
[Oct 21 st 1932. Since writing the above I have had a 
visit to-day from Mr. A. J. Wilmott of the British Museum, 
and he tells me that in the herbarium there they have a 
specimen of Linn&a from Silpho Moor. Mr. Wilmott has 
very kindly promised to send me a copy of the label.] 
NEW BOTANICAL RECORDS FOR NORTH 
YORKSHIRE. 
R. J. FLINTOFF. 
In the summer of 1931 Mr. H. Furness, of Brompton, near 
Scarborough, brought to me a plant which he found in a pond 
at Brompton. As it differed from type I sent it to the late 
Dr. G. C. Druce, of Oxford, who named it Veronica beccabunga 
Linn., /. submersa. All the leaves were submerged and 
translucent. 
In The Naturalist, October, 1931, I wrote about a certain 
Hieracium found in Riccaldale, Kirby Moorside, by A. I. 
Burnley, John Burnett, A. S. Lealman and R. J. Flintoff, 
which proved difficult to identify. • It has now been named 
by Dr. K. H. Zahn, Hieracium sagittatum Lin deb., var. 
subhirtum (Hanb . ) 
In 1931 I found at Grosmont a Taraxacum growing 
■on the old railway line, which has been named by Dr. H. 
Dahlstedt Taraxacum brachyglossum Dahlst. 
So far as I can learn these plants are new records for the 
North Riding, and possibly for the County of York. 
I shall be grateful to anyone who will give to me definite 
information relative to the occurrence of these plants in the 
'County. 
The Pontefract and Castleford Express for December 2nd contains a 
lengthy article by Mr. C. Marshall on Castleford’s Museum, which has 
just been opened to the public. He writes : — ‘ The Museums’ Committee 
have endeavoured to get away from the old idea of a museum being a 
.general repository for old junk, for they realize that stuffed birds and 
beasts with glassy eyes and wooden expressions are not instructive, and 
that the best way to study them would be by a visit to the Whipsnade 
Zoo.’ 
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