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THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY > NATURALIST. 



occasion was 137. Of these the following 61 species 

 had not been found in the previous excursions in the 

 New Forest : 



Agaricits (Tricholoma) acer- 



bus. 



A. (Clitocybe) cyathiformis. 

 A. (Clitocybc) nebttlaris. 

 A. (.Mvccna) annnonicicus. 

 A. (ifyeetta) tuc/ut;. 

 A. (Sfyctna) 'i'itc<igalus. 

 A. (Jtycsna) *'inguineolentus 

 A. (Myccnat gnlopiis. 

 .I. \Myctma) capularii. 

 A. (O'liphalia) fibula. 

 A. (O:nphalia) griseus. 

 A. (PUurotits) thioin ns. 

 A. (PleurolHs) scplicits. 

 A- (Entoloma) jubaius. 

 A. (Entolotna) nidorosus. 

 A. (Clitopilus) orcclla. 

 A. (.\olfineit) tnaminosus. 

 A. (.Volanca) rufo-carneus. 

 A. (Claudopiif) van'abilis. 

 A. (Hebeloma) tesfaceus. 

 A. ( Flan: in nla) flavidiis. 

 A. (Naucoria) cucumis. 

 A. (Xaiicoria) inelinoides. 

 A. (Galei'a) hypnorum. 

 A. (Psalliota) campestris. 

 A. (Hypholoma) epixanthns. 

 A. (Panceolus) pfialcenarum. 

 A. (Panceolus) cainpanula- 



tus. 



Coprinus radiatus. 

 Coprinus micaceus. 



Corprinus plicatilis. 

 Cottinariits cinnabarinus. 

 Cortinariiis castaneits. 

 Cortinai '.- lt< untrichus. 

 Corlinarius incisus. 

 Paxillus involutus. 

 Laclfin'ns fillip i'ostis. 

 Rii^sitlii gmnitlatus. 

 Ritstithi liitca. 

 Ru.i.-u!u piti'piirca. 

 Russulaftlba. 

 Russitla t/iicletii. 

 Cantliarellus cibariits. 

 CtutihanUtts dc/lcxus. 

 .Varasniius cpipliyllus. 

 ^[fll asmins aiidrosaaus. 

 Polvponis rufescens. 

 Poly poms radintits. 

 Polvponis amiosus. 

 Polyponis abietinus. 

 Dcedalea quercina. 

 Stcnion saiiguincolenta. 

 Phlcbia mesenterica. 

 Cltivaria cristata. 

 Calocera cornea. 

 Tremella albida. 

 Pi-ziza cafycina. 

 Peziza cinerea. 

 Trichia fallax. 

 Bulgaria sarcoides. 

 Ascobolusfurfuraceus. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, November 9, ifi 



DERIVATION OF CARISBROOKE. 

 [//./. ante, November 2.] 



In "The Saxon Chronicle," under A.D. 530, we 

 find recorded : " In this year Cerdic and Cinric took 

 the Isle of Wight, and slew many men in 

 Wightgaras-burg." Here is the origin of the Can's 

 in Carisbrook : the burg refers to the fortress. 

 Under A.D. 554, the Chronicle says "This year 

 died Whitgar, and men buried him at Wihtgarasbyrig." 

 It is more than suspected that the compilers of this 

 Chronicle invented some of the names of Saxon 

 chiefs, and Whitgar is one taken from the Island's 

 stronghold. In A.D. 514 Whitgar is recorded as 

 fighting against the Britons, so that in that case he 

 would appear to have been so named long before the 

 Island was invaded by his uncle Cinric ! 



I quote another instance of suspicious nomenclature, 

 under A.D. 501 : "This year Porta and his sons, 

 Beda and Mela, came into Britain with two ships, at 

 a place called Portsmouth.'" Similar examples could 

 be cited. C. ROACH SMITH. 



Temple-place, Strood. 



THE WEATHER IN OCTOBER. 

 The rain so much required after the drought of 

 September and the latter end of August has fallen 

 abundantly during this month. October is one of the 

 wettest months, the average of the ten years ending 

 1886 placing it the wettest but three ; and the average 



of twelve years ending at the same date showing it 

 the wettest but one ; the former being 3'i4, and the 

 latter 3-58 inches. The total fall this month has been 

 5-18, and the average of the preceding ten years 3-21 

 inches, so that the fall has been nearly two inches in 

 excess. The amount of rain since January has been 

 23-26, and the average of the last 10 years 24-72 

 inches. Rain fell on twenty-one days, the most in 

 twenty-four hours being 0-80 in. on the igth. 



The barometer has been much under the average, 

 being on tvventy-.seven days under 3oinche., and only 

 on four days 30 incnes and above. On the igth and 

 2oth it registered 29-11 and 29-17 inches respectively, 

 and also 29-26 on the gth. The highest was 30-22 in. 

 on the 25th. The weather has been mild, only five 

 frosts occurring ; the lowest reached by the thermo- 

 meter being 29 degrees. The maximum was 61 de- 

 grees on the 5th, and 60 degrees was recorded on 

 three other days. Your readers may be interested in 

 seeing the various falls in October during the last 

 fifteen years, which I append below : 



1875 6-78 



1876 2-13 



1877 1-97 



1878 3-35 



1879 

 1880 



0-81 

 6*05 

 1-58 

 7'73 



2*04 

 0-83 

 3'88 

 4-80 



1887 1-57 



1888 1-92 



1889 5-18 

 average 3-44 



T. WESTLAKE, Fordingbridge. 



LOCAL RECORDS. At the annual meeting of the 

 Library Association, which is fully reported in the 

 November issue ot The Library, Mr. T. W. Shore, of 

 the Hartley Institution, Southampton, referred to the 

 important question of public libraries taking upon 

 themselves the duty of preserving local manuscripts. 

 The noble old library of the Hartley Institution, he 

 said, had for many years done its best to collect old 

 manuscripts and old records throughout Hampshire. 

 There had lately sprung into existence a Hampshire 

 Record Society. If librarians became the means of 

 founding a Record Society in every county, making 

 the local library its depository, the Library Associa- 

 tion would have set in motion a most important work 

 for the country. The value of such local materials 

 for history was illustrated by a presentation which 

 was made to the Hartley Institution only a 

 few days ago, of a copy of the Court 

 roll of a manor in Hampshire, and among the customs 

 recorded was one exceedingly curious so curious 

 that it only existed in one other manor in England. 

 Some years ago he read a paper at one of the ordinary 

 meetings of the Association on the preservation of 

 parish registers. It was suggested at a former meet- 

 ing that one work the Association might usefully do 

 would be to circulate information amongst the cus- 

 todians of these documents as to the best way in 

 which they could be preserved. He had seen, per- 

 haps, a hundred parish registers, some of great 

 interest, and many in admirable preservation, but he 

 had seen them nearly always preserved in boxes and 

 cupboards which for various reasons were not proper 

 receptacles. The want of free passage of air through 



