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DEYEUXIA NEGLECTA, KUNTH. IN YORKSHIRE. 
ARTHUR BENNETT. 
In The Naturalist for 1887 at page 201, I made some remarks 
on the above plant as occurring in Mr. F. J. Hanbury’s her- 
barium from ‘ Castle Howard Woods, July, 1844, H. Ibbotson.’ 
At page 273, Dr. Arnold Lees also gave some notes respecting 
it, doubting it as ever occurring. The plant having been 
found in Norfolk this year, and sent me by the finder, Mr. F. 
Robinson, I had cause to look up its distribution, and 1 came 
across a copy of aletter from Dr. R. Spruce to Mr. M. Slater of 
Malton. It seems well to print this, as Dr. Spruce could hardly 
have been mistaken :— 
“CONEYSTHORPE, 21d August, 1887. 
Dear Sir—If Calamagrostis stricta grows where it did 53 
years ago, I can tell you where to find it. When you disembark 
at Castle Howard Station, go up Gilla Leys on the south side, 
near the very top (following the stream) Tvichocolea used to 
grow in some abundance—perhaps you might find it in fruit. Go 
right on till you come to Wellburn Mill ; there on mud-capped 
walls used to grow the peristomirate form of Encalypta vulgaris. 
Keep by the beck, or on the hill side above it till you come to 
Wellburn Moor ; there you will see a bridge over the beck (Old 
Crambeck Bridge), do not cross it, but keep right on to Pretty 
Wood Gate, just within that gate going up the brook that 
joins Crambeck, on boggy ground, and in the Wood Ledge, 
used to grow the Calamagrostis. I had called it in my boyhood 
C. lanceolata (for I found no C. stricta in Smith’s Compendium), 
but when Ibbotson was here last he told me Jas. Backhouse and 
(I think) Asa Gray had made it out to be the true C. stricta. 
The plant was still in some abundance when Ibbotson passed 
this way, and gathered some of it; but for the last three 
years there has been a mania for draining on this estate, and 
it may have extended to the locality of the Calamagrostts 
(which the gods forefend).—Yours faithfully, RICHARD SPRUCE.’ 
This seems some evidence that something else besides 
C. lanceolata grew there. Anyhow, the specimens in Mr. 
Hanbury’s herbarium are C. stricta not C. lanceolata ! 
Dr. Lees seems to assume in his note that some pale form 
of lanceolata may have been meant or mistaken for stricta, 
but that is not so, with the specimens I name. 
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In The Museums Journal for February, Messrs. E. L. Gill and H. 
Fletcher describe their method of making plaster casts of fishes, which 
gives some very practical and useful hints. 
1915 Mar. 1. 
