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are so commonly met with that in describing the latter we are 

 constantly compelled to use designations usually applied to the 

 former. 



Alpine Rose (Rhododendron ferrugineum). — Fleshy, fruit-like galls 

 on the leaf, of about the size of a raspberry, smooth ; one gall grown 

 right on' the edge of a leaf. For an inspection of these to me novel 

 galls on the far-famed "alpine rose" I am indebted to Mr. Stainton, 

 who kindly allowed me to send them to Leeds, and who, at my 

 request, has furnished the following precise particulars, which will 

 enable any tourist to investigate the subject further, if they are not 

 already described somewhere. Mr. Stainton writes, "They were 

 common enough at Andermatt, from one hundred to two hundred feet 

 above the chapel, which is itself just above Andermatt: the colour was 

 green, with a slight rosy tinge in places : the date was July 30 (1866)." 

 Insect unknown to me. 



Rose (Rosa canina). — Of the common bedeguar of the wild rose 

 I possess a specimen, showing on the same stem, on a length of not 

 more than three inches, six bedeguars placed round the stem, each 

 about the size of a walnut: it was found near Box Hill, where this 

 bedeguar was exceedingly numerous in 1865. A leaf of this rose in 

 my collection displays several small tufts of red bedeguar bristles : a 

 Similar case is mentioned by Reaumur, as reported by Rennie (' Insect 

 Architecture,' p. 329). Rhodites Rosa? of Linneus. " I find the farmers 

 here (Harrogate) gather the mossy galls of the rose to make an in- 

 fusion for diarrhoea in cows, which they say is very efficacious." — 

 W. A. in Hit. September 24, 1866. 



Burnet Rose (Rosa spinosissima). — Polythalamous, woody galls, of 

 the size and shape of a small rounded bean, mostly beautifully tinged 

 with red, sometimes provided with short obtuse spines ; a few speci- 

 mens cushion-shaped with leafy fringe all round. (Rhodites ?) 



"Allonby, Cumberland, very abundant in August, 1865 and 1867." — 

 W. A. in lilt. August 18, 1865, and August 9, 1867. Ooe of the 

 specimens obtained in 1865, which I have kept ever since in a dry 

 box, opened to-day (March 9, 1868), shows one larva alive, though 

 much shrivelled and lean. 



Meadow Sweet (Spiraea Ulmaria). — The well-known gall produced 

 by Cecidomyia Ulmaria, first described and figured by Bremi (loc. cit. 

 gall, p. 16, and insect described, p. 52; gall figured, tab. 1, fig. 15), 

 needs only a passing notice here, as Mr. H. W. Kidd has given an 

 excellent account of it in the March number of the 'Entomologist's 



