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September. It may be of interest here to mention that allhoug-h 

 Mr. Ja^er did not get exigua, he tool< on the same ground, on 

 23rd September, a perfectly fresh specimen of Ophiusa stolida, 

 a very beautiful Noctuid quite new to Britain. — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Huddersfield, 5th November 1903. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 

 Orobanche rubra Sm.— In July 1897, while looking over 

 collections of local flowers at the Tealby flower show, I came 

 across an Orobanche I did not know. Miss E. F. Lewin took it 

 in May 1897, in Cawthorpe Wood, near. Louth. I sent it on to 

 Mr. Arthur Bennett. He forwarded it to Dr. G. Beck, author 

 of the recent ' Monograph der Gatting Orobanche.' I have now 

 received a note of its name from Mr. Bennett. It appears that 

 Dr. Beck names it O. alba Stephan in Willd. Sp. PI. iii., 350, 

 date 1800; that is O. epithyrmun DC, 1805, and O. rubra Sm., 

 1805. But that is not all, though it is a new addition to the 

 flora of N. Lines., 54. Hitherto O. rubra has always been found 

 in Great Britain, parasitical on Thyjiiiis serpylliim, on the soil of 

 Trap rocks. Cawthorpe Woods stand on Purple Boulder Clay 

 according to the East Lincolnshire drift map. As far as my 

 experience goes, it is most unlikely that Thymus should be found 

 on Boulder Clay, unless the wood contains an isolated patch of 

 Sandy Glacial Gravel not shown on the map. It is a rare 

 species, only recorded for 14 vice-counties besides Lincolnshire. — 

 E. Adrian Woodruffe Peacock, Cadney, 12th October 1903. 



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mossEs. 



Tortula ruralis var. arenicola on the Yorkshire Coast. — 



During a recent visit to Bridlington I came across a large 

 quantitv of Tortula ruralis var. arenicola on the cliffs to the 

 south. I think this moss is very common on the sandy shores 

 of the East Coast. Mr. Barnes first recorded it as a Yorkshire 

 moss at Saltburn. Since then Mr. J. F. Robinson and myself 

 have several times gathered it, and I found it in good fruiting 

 condition at Spurn at the last Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 meeting there. At Bridlington it was all barren, but gave quite 

 a characteristic appearance to the cliff sides.— J. J. Marshall, 

 2nd November 1903. 



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Filey Meeting: Correction.— By an oversig:ht Pleurotus variabilis 

 was s^iven in tlie list of fuuiji instead of Claudopus variabilis (Naturalist, 

 Jiilv 1903, p. 241).— C. Crossland, Halifax. 

 1903 December i. 



