FIELD NOTES. 175 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Gagea fascicularis Salisb. (lutea L.) as a Garden 
Weed.—I recently visited a nursery garden in Doncaster, in 
order to see a ‘troublesome yellow flowered weed’ that was 
there. I was surprised to find the ‘ weed ’ to be G. fascicularts. 
The plants were literally in thousands, growing among Scillas, 
Tulips, Narcissi, etc., and the proprietor told me that they 
appeared about five years ago, and that he could not get rid 
of them. It seems remarkable that this pretty and rare plant 
of the open woodlands should become a pest. —H. H. CorBEtrT. 
MOSSES. : 
Seligeria recurvata B. & S. in Cumberland.—TIn July, 
1g10, I found this moss growing on rocks on the Cumberland 
side of the River Irthing near Gilsland. It was in abundant 
fruit. This is, I believe, the first record of any species of 
Seligeria from this county. My gathering was kindly verified 
by Mr. Ingham.—Jas. Murray, Carlisle. 
Lepidozia sylvatica Evans, a new Yorkshire Hepatic. 
——For some time this has been known as a North American 
species, and has also been recorded by Douin from the Con- 
tinent. In the Journal of Botany for March, 1915, is a des- 
cription of the plant with an announcement of its discovery 
in Sussex by Mr. W. E. Nicholson. On August 16th, 1904, 
January 4th, 1905 and April 25th, 1905, I found a Lepidozia 
growing directly on sand with a beautiful green form of the 
Hepatic Sphenolobus minutus. This was in a small wood by 
the side of Strensall Common in North-East Yorkshire. On 
receiving the description in the Journal of Botany, I re-ex- 
amined my gathering and made it Lepidozia sylvatica. I sent 
a specimen to Mr. Nicholson who agrees. As Mr. Nicholson 
says, L. setacea is a plant of Sphagnum bogs, L. trichoclados of 
pure peat, and L. sylvatica of sandy ground or rocks. Students 
of Hepatics should re-examine their Lepidozias, noting the 
habitat of each.—Wm. INGHAM, York, April roth, I915. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
Stenichneumon pictus in Yorkshire.—On January 2nd, 
1g15, Mr. S. Margerison found hibernating under the bark of a 
partly decayed pine in the Sawley High Moor Plantation, the 
ichneumon, Stenichneumon pictus Grav. Mr. Claude Morley, 
to whom the specimen was submitted, says that it is a dis- 
tinctly uncommon species, and that he was unaware that it 
hibernated as an imago. According to Vol. I. of ‘ British 
Ichneumons,’ Stephens found an example near London in June, 
and another is mentioned as being in Mr. Chitty’s collection 
taken in September, at Ilfracombe. Specimens, however, 
have been bred several times from Macaria liturata and Thera 
quniperata.—-R. BUTTERFIELD, Keighley. 
1915 May 1. 
