10 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Capsella Barsd-pastoris. Maench. Shepherd's purse. April 

 Uth. 



Hepatica acutiloha^ DC. Sharp lobed Hepatica. April 15. 

 Ranunculus fascicularis Muhl. Earlj crowfoot. April 15. 



The table was adorned with a large number of living exam- 

 ples of the above plants. Mr. Kagel reported that several club 

 mosses had fruited, but he could not give the names. He was 

 unable to gain access to any work describing the mosses of this 

 country. 



Mr. W. H. Pratt reported that last Saturday (April 8th) he 

 visited Horse Island, a few miles below town, for the purpose 

 of collecting Helix prof unda Say, a species usually abundant on 

 that Island, though rare elsewhere in this vicinity. He found 

 them still in a state of hibernation, and easily gathered a large 

 number. Without exception they were all found with the 

 spire down and the umbilicus up. Among the specimens 

 collected there is a great range of variation in color. Sev- 

 eral are entirely without brown bands, while others are en- 

 tirely covered with reddish brown, excepting a narrow clear 

 line. The majority of specimens have one prominent broad 

 reddish band, sometimes accompanied by several narrow ones. 

 It is probable that the warm weather of Monday and Tuesday 

 brought them to active life, and tliat they have now scattered so 

 that they will be more difficult to collect. A few dead speci- 

 mens of Helix thyroides Say, and of H. conoava Say, were col- 

 lected in the same locality. He also found several specimens of 

 Succinea obllqua Say, a species which no recent collector has 

 before been able to find, though it is recorded in Tryon's List.* 



Mr. Putnam stated that the present warm weather was bring- 

 ing the insects into active life quite rapidly, but he had been too 

 unwell to collect much. On April 7th and 10th the following 

 species were collected, mostly from under stones, pieces of wood, 

 etc.: CoLEOPTERA : Amara fallaxX^ec.., Selenophorus pedicu- 

 lariwi Dej., Stenolophus conjunctly Say, Agonoderus pallipes 

 Fab., Tach>/s, 2 species, Orchestris striolata 111., and about a 

 dozen undetermined species ; also under some dead turtles were 

 Silpha marginalis Fab., S. inwqualis Fab., Ips quadrisig- 



♦Journal of Conchology, Vol. I, p. — . Philadelphia, 1867. 



