Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 01 August 1881
The Sheffield Naturalists’ Club
On Thursday, in much beautiful weather, this club drove to Conisborough and Edlington Woods. In the marshy meadows on the river side at Conisborough the flora was most abundant and varied, in fact botanist, conchologist, and entomologist would find here a most prolific hunting ground.
The beautiful woods at Edlington were a little disappointing to the botanists. Owing to the lateness of the visit, many relics only of faded beauty were found. But including the specimens found at Conisborough the results were very satisfactory.
The following species selected from a large number of plants collected are the most interesting and rare, viz., arrow head (sagattoria sagitifolia), water violet (hottonia palustris), frogbit (hydrocharis morsus), hemlock (conium maculatum), soap wort (saponaria officinalis), ænanthe fistulosa, ænanthe phellandrium, wild parsnip (pastinaca sativa), torolis nodosa, wild carrot (daucas carota), trifolium geranium, water ranunculus (ranunculus divaricatus), carex vulpina, C. paludosa, C. sylvatica, C. divulsa, scirpus lacustris, juncus glaucus, stellaria aquatica, hypericum montanum, hypericum hirsutum, potamogeton, pusillus, potamogeton crispus, carex vesicaria, and many others too numerous to mention.
After partaking of a well-earned and well-served meat tea, provided by Mrs. Scott, at Edington Woodhouse, the President of the club (Mr. A. H. Allen), gave a very lucid description of the geology of the district, and Mr. A. Carr followed with a careful and interesting explanation of the plants which had been found. This excursion formed no exception to the rule governing all the excursions of this club, being both highly interesting and instructive.