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mentions a butterfly (Pieris brassicce, L.). It may therefore be worth 

 while recording that during the past summer (1910) I have on 

 several occasions found the flowers being worked by species of 

 humble-bees in search of nectar. Thus, on July 1 7 a dull and 

 mild day when walking up the ending of a potato-field in which 

 Fumaria was in full bloom, I counted 169$ of Bombus agrorum, 

 Fab., and two small $ 9 of B, hortorum, L. Again, on July 28 

 (dull and showery) several B. agroritm, Fab., were noted. Lastly, on 

 August 1 6 (sunny and mild) I counted in the same place 8 $ 9 of 

 B. agrorum, Fab., and a single B. terrestris, L. ( 5 ), the latter biting 

 holes in the base of the corolla. S. E. BROCK, Kirkliston, West 

 Lothian. 



Seheuehzeria palustrison Rannoeh Moor. I found Schenchzeria 

 on Rannoeh Moor on July iSth of this year. The plant was scattered 

 in fair quantity over a very marshy part of the moor. It was associ- 

 ated with Carcx li/nosa, C. pauciflora, Drosera angliea, D. rotiindifolia, 

 and the other common plants of a peaty marsh, such as Seirpus 

 CGRspitosus, Molinia ccerulea, etc. 



This is a new locality for the plant, and is of interest, as 

 Seheuehzeria seems to be one of our decreasing species. Its only 

 other recorded station in Scotland is Methven Bog near Perth ; but 

 it is almost certainly extinct there, as the site where it grew has been 

 flooded, and it has been sought in vain since 1874. In England it 

 has been recorded from no less than nine localities, but Wybunbury 

 Bog, Cheshire, seems to be the only one of these where it can now be 

 found. In 1904 Mr. A. Bennett wrote: "Unless discovered in other 

 stations Seheuehzeria would seem to be a doomed species in Britain." 

 It is gratifying to add one new locality where the plant still holds out 

 in considerable numbers. G. W. SCARTH. 



Moneses uniflora, A. Gray. In the case of so local a species it 

 may be of interest to state that I found this in August of this year, 

 in fruit, near Loch Mallachie in the parish of Abernethy, East 

 Inverness-shire. It has been known for a good many years in two 

 or three localities some miles to the south, in Rothiemurchus, but 

 I am not aware of its having been previously observed where I saw 

 it. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Poppies by Railways near Aberdeen. For a number of years 

 I have kept watch for the poppies that occur near Aberdeen ; but 

 the only species that I have observed as a field weed has been 

 Papaver dubium, and even it is almost confined to a few fields, and 

 is rarely frequent. P. somniferum appears occasionally as a casual 

 on rubbish heaps or as an escape from gardens. P. Rliceas has been 

 very scarce even as a casual, and P. Argemone I had not seen near 

 Aberdeen before this year. 



But, curiously enough, in 1910 poppies have been frequent on 

 ballast and other materials deposited from and near railways, to the 



