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FIELD NOTES. 



FUNGI. 

 Mycology at Buckden. — Miss E. M. Wakefield, of the 

 Herbarium, Kew, points out that Odontia jarinacea and 

 Tomentella fusca are not new British records as described.* 

 Odontia jarinacea is merely the more modern way of naming 

 Hydnum farinaceum, a very old species, whilst Tomentella 

 fusca was first recorded from Clare Island some years ago and 

 has been listed at nearly every foray of the British Mycological 

 Society, as well as at Yorkshire Forays since then. — A. E. 

 Peck, Scarborough. 



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COLEOPTERA. 

 Atheta britteni Joy in E. Yorks. — Several specimens of 

 this interesting beetle have been discovered in flood refuse 

 from the River Derwent, at Bubwith (Dec, 1916), by Messrs. 

 E. A. Newbery and W. E. Sharp. The species was described 

 by Dr. Joy (E.M.M., 1913, p. 154), on four specimens taken 

 in flood refuse in Cumberland in May, 1911, and the only other 

 record is of about thirty specimens from Sutherlandshire, in 

 May, 1914, also from flood refuse (E.M.M., 1914, p. 195). 

 — Wm. J. Fordham, Bubwith. 



BIRDS. 

 The Storm and Gulls. — At a large munition works in 

 the West Riding, where thousands of girls and men are employed 

 filling shells, there is a large refuse heap. When the severe 

 weather commenced at the beginning of the year, a few gulls 

 found it out ; their numbers rapidly increased until a very 

 considerable flock, chiefly Black-headed and Herring Gulls, 

 frequented it regularly every day, and are still there. They 

 evidently found an abundance of food and are loth to leave 

 it, for at the time of writing they are as abundant as ever. — 

 R. Fortune, Harrogate, March 2nd, 1917. 



Illustrations of the British Flora, by W. H. Fitch and W. G. Smith, 4th 



ed., revised ; L. Reeve, 1916. This very useful book of illustrations is 

 too well known to botanists to require further commendation for this 

 revised edition. Several improvements have been made, e.g. clear 

 diagrams are given, illustrating the relationships of the floral organs which 

 are characteristic of the four classes of Dicotyledons, and there is an 

 arrangement of natural orders or families, with their characters given 

 in sufficient detail to enable the family to be determined. The illustrations 

 though small, are clear and are better printed than in some earlier issues. 

 To each scientific name under the figure are added, not only the synonyms 

 in many cases, but also the common name, and the colour of the flower is 

 also indicated. 



* Naturalist, March and April, 1917. 

 1917 June 1. 



