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their full length into the soft mud, and easy to draw them out, but I 

 found when my foot went deeply in, that it was not so easy to get my 

 boot back again. Laced boots, not elastic-sided ones, as mine were, 

 were the proper thing to wear there. Patches of red attracted my 

 attention, and stooping to examine them, I found these were plants 

 of the round-leaved sun-dew f Dmscra rotundifoUa ), which I had 

 never seen before except as a herbarium specimen. I secured several 

 healthy-looking plants for home growth, and may as well say here 

 that the leaves produced under glass were green, not red as in 

 their lofty home. Sweet-gale, or bog-myrtle f Mi/rica (jctle ) was there, 

 but not abundant, and I had the pleasure of seeing the bog-asphodel 

 f NartJu'cium ossifranioii j, a lovely flower, for the first time. A keeper 

 came up to us ; he thought we were catching young grouse, and had run a 

 mile or more to stop us. I am not sure that he was not more angry 

 because we were not doing so than he would have been had he caught 

 us in the act. Mr, Finlay now called my attention to the female 

 ('. (hirus he had taken. They are much paler than the males. His 

 mode of pinning them into a box afforded an opportunity for examina- 

 tion which my habit of boxing did not. Aj/yotis jHtrjiht/ira was not 

 uncommon, but rather worn. I managed to secure one or two 

 tolerably good specimens, and found them not so red as those I had 

 taken in the drier Yorkshire moors. < '. davus was tolerably abundant, 

 and we might have secured a goodly number had the sun shone 

 brightly, but it gradually grew more cloudy, and at last my friend 

 called my attention to what was evidently rain falling on the 

 Simonside Hills. Just then a moth flew quickly up, but my net was 

 quicker and I secured it, a lovely J »rtrto ini/rtilli. A large Tortrix — 

 Mi.nxlia sfkultziana — was the next capture, then a second ^. iin/rtilli, a 

 second M. sclinlt::iana : other things, too, were on the wing, and we 

 were likely to do well, when to my great dismay, rain began to fall, 

 first a few drops, and then a heavy shower. For a little time I 

 persevered, in hope that it would pass, but the rain increased, and 

 our nets were soon saturated and useless. There was nothing for it 

 but to make for shelter — two or three miles away, and we very 

 reluctantly began to retrace our steps. Before quitting the moss I 

 managed to secure two fine specimens of the Heather pug, Kujntlu'cia 

 nanata, evidently just out. I boxed them as they sat, and they added 

 another item to my regret at the change of weather, for they were 

 considerably different from those I had met with in Durham. But 

 there was no shelter on the moor. We looked with longing eyes at 

 a wooden shooting-box, but it was securely fastened up, and after trying 

 a stone wall, which gave us no protection from the perpendicular rain, 

 we at last got a little shelter under a tree, taking the opportunity to 

 eat our lunch, and thus fortify ourselves as well as we could from the 

 eft'ects of our drenching. Mr. Finlay most kindly gave me his 

 captures, which, with those I had taken myself, made a respectable lot. 

 C. davus from this locality is somewhat intermediate betAveen the 

 Lancashire and the Scotch forms. In hue it resembles the Scotch 

 specimens, but the underside is more ringed, and the light fascia 

 more distinct, but not nearly so much so as in those from Chat Mess 

 or Risely Carr, 



