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ing the Falcon Inn, on the direct 

 road between Scarborough and 

 Whitby, and were surprised to find 

 in the gai'den of the inn a few 

 British plants, of which we should 

 have been glad to have read more 

 fully the history. They were Mentha 

 rotimdifolia, SpircBa salicifoUa, and 

 Malva moschata with white flowers. 

 The former I take to be the species 

 so subject to variegation, and such 

 a favourite in these days of foliage 

 plants. I also noticed another mint 

 in the garden strongly marked with 

 yellow veins. SpircBa salicifoUa is 

 stated, in the Scarborough Guide, 

 to grow wild near Cayton, I saw 

 it some years ago wildly abundant 

 near Bala, in North Wales. — Peter 

 Inchbald, Storthes Hall, Nov. 14. 



8merinthus ocellatus. — I had a very 

 fine female specimen of the Eyed 

 Hawk Moth, emerged from the pupa 

 the second week in June last, and 

 kept it three weeks and two days in 

 my breeding cage, expecting others 

 out nearly at the same time, but none 

 have, as yet, made their appearance. 

 Can any Entomological student in- 

 form me through the pages of" The 

 Naturalist " if they have ever known 

 them go over to the second year. — 

 J. Blackburn, 42, St. Mary's-Street, 

 Leeds, Nov. 3rd, 1864. 



Schistostega osmundacea, W. & M. — 

 Your correspondent J. F. E. writing 



in your last issue, 15th November, 

 announces the finding of the above 

 species as new to Frodsham ; I be- 

 live that Mr. W. Wilson has been 

 aware for some years of its presence 

 in that neighbourhood, and in the 

 course of an afternoon's Bryolo- 

 gizing in March, 18C3, I met with 

 it in three or four distinct places in 

 the vicinity of Frodsham. In one 

 of the localities, a sandstone cave, it 

 was in the greatest abundance, many 

 square yards being covered with it. 

 If J. F. R. will refer to the " List 

 of Mosses occurring in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Manchester," as given 

 in the " Report of the Manchester 

 Field Naturalists' Society for the year 

 1863," he will find it there stated 

 that Sch. osmundacea, W. & M., is 

 " common at Frodsham." — J. E. W. 



Mr. R. Bathwick, Alloa, Scotland, 

 has P. Artaxerxes and C. Davus to 

 exchange ; he has also a small col- 

 lectionrof Lepidoptera to exchange 

 for a collection of Birds' Eggs. A 

 list will be sent on application. 



Mosses. — Having a number of du- 

 plicates of British Mosses on hand, 

 I shall be glad to exchange lists of 

 desiderata, &c., with any Bryologist, 

 either British or Continental. — 

 Chas. p. Hobkirk, Huddersfield, 

 Nov. 24th, 18C4. 



