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have taken the species. In Arnold's Pond, Guernsey, it occurs 

 in company with the first three Crustacea ; in a stream running 

 into Cobo Bay, Guernsey, with the Spliceroma and Conovulus 

 denticulatus var. myosotis ; at Clevedon, Somerset, witli PaloemoUf 

 the SplicBroma^ and Corophium ; at Hartlepool (in ditches at the 

 back of the slake), with the four Crustacea and 2i. ulvce ; and in 

 marsh ditches, towards the mouth of the Thames, with the 

 Spliceroma J R. anatina (Drap.), Assiminia Grayana (Jeff.), and 

 Limneus pereger (Miiller). — Alfred Merle Norman^ Sedgejieldy 

 Nov. 19,1860. 



02'>liiocoma filiformis (Miiller), on the Dui^liam Coast. — I have 

 lately procured examples of 0. filiformis from the stomachs of 

 haddocks taken off Hartlepool. This is, I believe, the first time 

 that the species has been noticed on the eastern coast of Great 

 Britain. It was first procured by Professor Forbes in the Firth 

 of Clyde, where I have also dredged it ; and it was subsequently 

 taken in the Loughs of Connemara. These are the only recorded 

 localities. It inhabits mud. The specimens observed from this 

 coast differ from those I have taken at Rothesay, in having the 

 scales at the origin of the rays more nearly parallel, and the out- 

 line of the disc less irregular. The anchor-headed spines 

 peculiar to and characteristic of this species are, as far as my 

 observations go, few and far between, though some may always 

 be detected. — Ibid. 



Volvox glohator in South Durham. — Volvox glohator was first 

 noticed in our district two years since at Prestwick Car. That 

 locality has since, I believe, been destroyed. The species, how- 

 ever, is by no means uncommon in ponds in the neighbourhood 

 of Sedgefield. — Ibid. 



Plants new to the Flora of Durham. — Mr. J. G. Baker, of Thirsk, 

 gathered in July, 1859, Galium comm^datum, and Cylindrothecium 

 montanei on the sugar limestone on the summit of Widdy Bank 

 Fell, Teesdale, both of which are new to our local Flora. — W. 

 H. Brown, North Shields, 1860. 



