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abundance at the west end of Hackfall woods, and scarcely a plant at the 

 east end. 



Scolopendrium multl/idum, (Oleft Hart's Tongue.) — In a wood near Mickley 

 it is abundant. 



Blechnum horeale, (Hard Fern.) — Very common. 



Pteris aquilina, (Brake.) — Very common. The var. caudata I think 

 I have found, but have not quite decided whether there is such a variety 

 or not. 



Butrychium lunaria, (Common Moonwort.) — In some fields near Burnes- 

 ton and Bedale. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum, (Common Adder's Tongue.)— I have never found 

 this yet, but was shewn some specimens gathered in the neighbourhood. 



Pilidaria glohulifera, (Creeping Pillwort.) — In a pond near the Incoming 

 Lane; it is quite full of it. I have not seen it elsewhere. 



Lycopodium clavatum, (Stag's Horn Moss.) — Very common on some rough 

 moorish ground not far from Hackfall. I doubt not but that some more 

 of the Lycopodiums grow here, but I have not looked for them. 



E(iuisetu.rii fiaviatile, (Great Horse-tail.) — Common all over. 



Equisetum arvense, (Common Horse-tail.) — Very common. 



Equisetum Hyemale, (Rough Horse-tail.) — Very abundant in Hackfall. 



The above list comprises all that I have found, but a closer search 

 would discover many more I doubt not. 



Miclcley, near Papon, December, 185o. 



BEGINNING OF THE HUNTING SEASON. 



BY THE REV. F. O. MORRIS. 



In the month of March a fine specimen of PJiigaha pilosaria was found 

 on the window of my dining-room one morning before breakfast; a second 

 was also found a few days afterwards under the sill of the kitchen window. 

 On the 31st. of March, in company with ray friend the Rev. G. Rudston 

 Read, Rector of Sutton-on-Derwent, I went to "try" Sutton wood at night. 

 He baited some trees with sugar, and we also inspected the sallows just 

 then coming into bloom, but only one, a large tree, that is, of that kind, 

 was out in full blossom. We had not to wait long before the top of the tree 

 was visited by numbers of Noctua, which however were out of the reach of 

 our nets, and sufficiently tantalizing. The happy idea then struck me of 

 stepping up into the tree, which I accordingly did — a mode of rising in the 

 world, consistent, I hope, with a pardonable ambition — and then easily took 

 several specimens of Orthosia cruda; I also saw but "missed" one very 

 large moth, which probably was Calocampa exoleta, for my friend the Rev. 



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