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THE NATUllALIST. 



L. camelina, found one sitting on 

 a hazel leaf. 



P. lacertinaria, one by beating 

 birch, Coombe Wood. 



V. maculata, common, Coombe 

 Wood. 



E. porata, beating, Wimbledon 

 Common. 



L. petraria, abundant, Wimbledon 

 Common. 



H. rupicapraria, by searching 

 hedges at night with a lantern, 

 common. 



E. exiguata, one by beating Wim- 

 bledon Common. 



E. pumilata, two on palings. 



C. propugnata, one by beating. 



S. certata, two in a garden. 



X. litJioriza, on palings. 



With other common species. 



C. J. BUCKMASTER, 11, South- 



fields, Wandsworth. 



Ranunculus Ficaria. — Some years 

 ago while taking my accustomed 

 walk in this neighbourhood, I ob- 

 served by the roadside, a strange 

 form of this early spring flower, in 

 which all the stamens had become 

 converted into petals. This curious, 

 and to me, novel circumstance struck 

 me very forcibly, never before hav- 

 ing seen this plant, except in its 

 normal condition. I at once removed 

 it from a state of nature to a state 

 of cultivation, in my own garden ; 



this I did with a view of seeing what 

 shape it might assume in future. I 

 have now watched it carefully for 

 three or four years, and although it 

 has very considerably enlarged its 

 dimensions, it has scrupulously 

 maintained through each successive 

 season the form in which I found it, 

 a profusion of double flowers, but 

 not a single stamen to be seen. Can 

 any reader of " The Naturalist" cast 

 a ray of light on this remarkable 

 phenomenon ? I may add that with 

 the single exception of double flow- 

 ers, there is not the slightest differ- 

 ence between it and the common 

 form and state in which I have here- 

 tofore found it. — John Sim, Bridge 

 End, Perth, May, 1864. 



€u\mx^t. 



I shall be glad to open cor- 

 respondence with Entomologists 

 (young beginners especially,) and 

 to exchange lists of desiderata 

 and duplicates with them. — R. 

 Merryweather, Town Wall, Har- 

 tlepool. 



Clostera anacJwreta. — The applica- 

 tions for C. anachoreta and C. curtula 

 have come in so thick and fast that 

 I shall not be able to supply more. 

 The boxes that are in hand, I will 

 return to the owner the first op- 

 portunity. — Wm. Porteus, 17, Dean 

 Street, Pellon Lane, Halifax, May 

 25th, 1804. 



