92 Bayford : A Floral Film of 1831. 



PosTSCRiPTUM. F. A. Lees. December, 1917. 



As regards the ' authority ' for the name's in the list, so 

 fortuitously unearthed by Mr. Bayford, it must rest with 

 G. P. Nicholson (a solicitor of Wath-upon-Dearne, who collected 

 plants and preserved them) until we know whether the Rev. 

 W. Moorhouse was a practical botanist or not. Langley was, 

 and his few records and dried specimens extant, so far as I 

 have ascertained so far, are all right, though he did not attain 

 the reliable pioneer position of a Mr. S. Appleby — possibly his 

 chances of wandering far afield were less — who contributed 

 the rare Pore-grass or Land-weed of the pond-weed order, 

 Scheuchzeria, from Thorne Moor, in 1832, to Nicholson's 

 Herbarium. There were three examples of it — in flower — in 

 that collection ; a calf-bound, royal octavo affair, in several 

 volumes. These came into the possession of the late S. Mar- 

 gerison, and in 1907 and 1908 I perfunctorily examined it ; 

 and S.M. gave one of the three specimens to Mr. J. F. Pickard 

 and another to myself. What has become of this bound 

 witness to the past I do not quite know, but it ought to be 

 searched for Aceras, the ' green man,' etc. Many of the mounted 

 plants had no indication of exact origin, but others had, as 

 with Appleby's contributions. Perhaps the present owner 

 will permit an expert examination to be now made of it, and 

 so assuredly enhance its value. Then it might, me judice, 

 and fitly enough, be presented to some Yorkshire Museum or 

 Institution. In some small way this might form a fitting 

 memorial to Margerison, just such a sort as would have 

 rejoiced his cosmophil spirit. 



Cumberland Hemiptera=Heteroptera. — In addition to 

 those recorded in The Naturalist, antea, p. 27-8, I have three 

 species in my collection, taken last year, which do not seem to 

 have been recorded before for this county. These are : Scolo- 

 postethus grandis Horv., one specimen cnly of this fine species 

 being taken in April, on the banks of the Eden, below Grinsdale. 

 Poeciloscytus nigritus Fall., not uncommon, but extremely 

 local on a patch of White Bedstraw, growing in a hedge near 

 Carleton. This pretty species scuttles off the beating sheet 

 with a peculiar squirming motion, which I have also noticed 

 in P. gyllenhalii Fall. Atractotomus magnicornis Fall., odd 

 specimens by general sweeping at Orton and Ivegill, in August. 

 Orthotylus virens Fall., may be mentioned here, one specimen 

 on Alder near Spa Well (see Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine, 

 1917, p. 251). I may also record Berytus crassipes H. S. from 

 Anthorn in June, and Salda orthochila Fieb. from Orton in Sep- 

 tember. The additions have been kindly named or verified by 

 Mr. E. A. Butler, F.E.S.— Jas. Murray, 2 Balfour Rd., Carlisle. 



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