48 THE QUERIST. 



the moss recorded as H. ochraceum in "Suppl. Flo. Yorks.," from "stones 

 in the Swale, below Topcliffe Bridge" should be referred here. 



JTypnum ochraceum, Turn.: North Yorkshire. In the small stream that 

 descends from Easterside to the Rye, at Laskill Bilsdale, 1856, J. G. Baker. 

 New to the riding, vide Supra. 



Hypnum exanulatum, Bryol. Eur., H. aduncum, Bryol. Brit.: Lancashire. 

 Wet places in Cliviger, 1853, John Nowell. West Yorkshire; bogs at 

 Widdop, near Heptonstall, 1855, and in a small bog at Fell Beck, near 

 Pateley Bridge, with young fruit, April, 1854, John Nowell. Cottingley 

 moor, near Bingley, Dr. Carrington. At an elevation of about five hundred 

 yards on the south-eastern slope of Ingleborough, near Gaping Gill Hole, 

 1855, J. G. Baker. I believe that this species has not yet been ascertained 

 to occur in the North Riding. It is certainly not common in the county, 

 as stated in "Suppl. Flo. Yorks," so that it is probable that IF. aduncum, 

 H. & J., (H. commutatum, var. condensatum, Wils.) was confused with it. 



Orthotrichum phyllanthum, B. & S.: Kincardineshire, Laurencekirk, 1854. 

 A. Hutton. North Yorkshire; trees near Ingleby Greenhow, 1856, W. Mudd. 

 Thorns at Mill Bay, near Scarbro', John Nowell. Specimens collected by 

 Mr. A. 0. Black, in Forge Valley, appear also to belong to this species. 



Mr. H. Ibbotson exhibited specimens of Apera spica-venti from two new 

 north- east Yorkshire stations, observed by himself last summer, namely, 

 cultivated fields at Suett Carr, near Sutton-on-the-Forest, (in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the locality recorded by Archdeacon Peirson, in the "Original 

 Botanist's Guide,") and at Catton, near Topcliffe. 



(E'tje (kumst. 



In "The Lady of the Lake" occurs the following 



"A feeble and a timorous guest, 

 The fieldfare framed her lowly nest." 



I have great confidence in Sir Walter Scott as an observer of Nature — 

 no naturalist " can read the "Lady of the Lake," for instance, without; but 

 is he not mistaken here as to the fieldfare's nesting, in Scotland even? 

 I am aware that some few instances have occurred of its breeding in this 

 country. But, again, in the same poem — 



"Like summer rose, 

 That brighter in the dew-drop glows." 



I profess myself no poet, and cannot say how far "poetic license" may 

 lawfully extend, but is it not the case that the dew-drop glows or glistens 

 in the rose, rather than the rose in the dew-drop? — F. 0. Morris, Nun- 

 burnholme Rectory, December 11th., 1857. 



