78 Field Notes. 
would be kept alive in an aviary and escape thence, and although 
the evidence is not conclusive, I think that the probability is 
great that we have here a genuine Yorkshire specimen of 
Sterna fuliginosa.—H. H. CORBETT. 
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BOTANY. 
Hybrid Epilobium in Cheshire.—On August 4th last, 
while at Helsby, about seven miles from Chester, on the swampy 
edge of a long narrow sheet of water near the station, I found an 
Epilobium that was new tome. It had the flowers of hirsutum 
and the leaves of palustre. Isent it to the Rev. E. T. Marshall, 
who wrote to me as follows :—‘ I feel sure that it is FE. hirsutum 
< palustre. The capsules. are mostly short and shrunken 
as is usual in these hybrids. The comparatively large petals 
and the sepals point clearly to EF. hirsutum as does the pubes- 
cense of the capsules, foliage and stem. The leaves closely 
approach E. palustre, of which they have the general appearance 
and the revolute edges, but the toothing, though a good deal 
suppressed, especially in the lower leaves, is due to the in- 
fluence of EF. hirsutum. This is a new hybrid for Britain and 
probably new altogether.’ 
Haussbrecht in his Monograph, p. 63 says:—' I have not 
seen any example of this alleged combination, nor has the 
description convinced me of its existence.’ 
It was described in Bot. Zeitung, 1875, p. 522, from 
material gathered near Petrograd. Professor Haussbrecht 
informed me during our correspondence (many years ago) 
that he had received a specimen and that it was Epilobium 
palustre X parviflorum. 
In a further letter from Mr. Marshall, he says :— Your 
hybrid is apparently “‘ new to science,’’ and not only new to 
our country, as the plant previously supposed to be this 
combination proved to be something different.’ — CHAs. 
WATERFALL. 
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There is a note on ‘The Turnip Gall Weevil,’ with illustrations, in 
The Journal of the Board of Agriculture for December. 
Prof. G. F. Atkinson favours us with a memoir on ‘ Morphology and 
Development of Aguricus vodmant, reprinted from the Proceedings of the 
American Philosophical Society. 
In the Tyvansactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, the former 
owners of Bolling Hall, Bradford’s new museum, are referred to as ‘ the 
Boiling Family.’ We trust it is only a misprint, and is not asupposition ! 
Punch draws attention to the following example of ‘ Journalistic 
Modesty ’: ‘ The Neanderthal man, we know rude as he was, made fires, 
and has left indications that he had reasons to suppose his relatives con- 
tinued beyond the grave. His brain case, though not like ours, was quite 
capacious.—Datly News.’ 
Naturalist, 
