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enough to furnish a list of some of the coniferse, which is herewith subjoined : — 

 Araucaria imbrieata, an avenue of these ascribed to be the finest collection 

 in the West of England. Amongst them are several cone-bearing, (very rare). 

 Abies alba, Abies Albertina, Abies Canadensis, Abies Douglasii, Abies excelsa, Abies 

 glauca, Abies invcrta, Abies Menziesii, Abies nigra, Arbor vitce — various, Cedrus 

 Atlantica, Cedrus Deodara, Cedrus Libani, Cedrus robusta, Chamceeyparis variegata, 

 Crpptomeria elegans, Cupressus Benthamii, Cupressus elegans, Cupressus Lambert- 

 tana, Cupressus macrocarpa, Cupressus sempcrvirens, Juniperus excelsa, Juniperus 

 fragrans, Juniperus glauca, Libocedrus Chilcnsis, Picea amabilis, Picea firma, 

 Picea grandis, Picea lasiocarpa, Picea magnifica, Picea nobilis, Picea JVordman- 

 niana, Picea Pinsapo, Pinus Austriaca, Pimts Benthamiana, Pinus Cembra, Pinus 

 excelsa, Pinus insignis, Pinus Laricio, Pinus Laribertiana, Pinus macrocrapa, 

 Pinus ponderosa, Pinus Strobus, Sequoia sempcrvirens, Thuja gigantea. Thuja 

 Lobbii, Thujopsis borealis, Thujopsis dolabraia, Wellingtonia gigantea, various very 

 fine specimens. 



Besides these there are Holly trees and Ivies of great variety. 

 Mr. Charles Fortey in search of land and freshwater shells, found Limncea 

 auricularia, and peregra in the garden pool at Eywood, also Planorbis carinatus 

 and co»ip?a7iai«« in the pool at"Silia. " The only collection of freshwater shells 

 found in Herefordshire, of which we have received notice, is that in the Museum 

 at Ludlow. Mr. Charles Fortey has furnished the following list : — Paludina 

 contecta, Paludina vivipara, Bylhinia tentaculata, Succinca putris, Physa fontinalis, 

 Lininwa auricularia, glabra, palustris, peregra, stagnalis, truncatula, Planorbis 

 carinatus, corneus, complanatus, vortex, Anodonta anatina. Unto pictorum, 

 tumidus, Drcissena polymurpha, Sphcerium corneum, and rivicola. 



POSTCRIPT. 



Of British land and fresh-water shells we have in Hereford Museum a 

 magnificent collection. Since the above was written we have been glad to hear 

 that Mr. Charles A. Whatmore, a resident of Much Marcle, and a member of the 

 Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, has pursued this branch of 

 study with much success in that parish ; and still more pleased have we been by 

 finding on page 77 of the April number of " Science Gossip " for this year (1892), a 

 paper headed " Contributions towards a list of the Mollusca of Herefordshire " by 

 Mr. A. E. Boycott, of the Grange, Hereford, in which the collector states that he 

 has increased the county list to eighty-seven species. — [Ed.] 



