286 Variation in Leaves and Flowers of Goldilocks. 
the assumption of a petaloid character by the sepals, is a sug- 
gestion of types like Caltha, while the tubular forms like H, /, 
strongly suggest Helleborus. 
Even among the foliage leaves are many that are remindful 
of other plants. An average specimen has. usually about three 
leaves of the types I to 118 on the stem well spaced, while 
there will be about four or five radical leaves with stalks, as. 
in 119 to 145. The early forms occur high up on the stem 
and are highly suggestive of similarly situated leaves of the 
‘crowfoot ’’ type formed in other Ranunculi. As we pass. 
down we find forms (68, 77, etc.) resembling miniature Hellebore 
leaves. Some again (117 to 121) resemble R. sceleratus. In 
fact in many respects the variations resemble the larger 
‘variations from type to type that occur in the Order as a whole. 
Examinations of the unopened buds did not reveal anything 
sufficient to cause the abnormalities, and unfortunately time 
has not permitted of observations on insect visitors and the 
connection, if any, between the nature of the modifications and 
the proportion of fertile séeds. This note may however, lead 
someone more fortunately situated as regards the habitat of 
this plant working out such points more in detail and helping 
to some decision as to whether this plant is really in a state of 
mutation as it sometimes appears to be. 
Sepals. Petals. No. of Specimens. Percentage. 
AG, 7) fo) 82, (5, 4) 24-2 
(4), 5, (6) I (1), 80, (7) 23°4 
5, (6) 2 66, (8) 19°7 
5 (Gan) 3 25, (2422) II.2 
5, (6) 4 30, (2) 8-5 
5 =) oO 
49 13° 
Professor C. J. Patten writes on the discovery of a colony of tree- 
sparrows on Inishtrahull Island, co. Donegal, in Britesh Birds for July. 
In a note on Trachyphleus digitalis Gyll., an addition to the British 
list of Coleoptera, Mr. Newberry records having seen an example of the 
species taken by Mr. E. W. Morse at Boston, Lincs. ( Entomologist’s Maga- 
zine for June). 
In the Geological Magazine for July, Dr. G. J. Hindle describes Solen- 
oporva gavv‘oodt, a new species of calcareous alza from the Lower Carboni- 
ferous of Westmorland. In the same journal Mr. H. L. Hawkins describes 
the Lanter of Pevischodomus from Clitheroe. 
Mr. N. H. Joy describes Atheta britteni, n. sp., and Tvrogophiceus 
hemerinus 0. sp., two new Staphylinids, from Cumberland, in The Entemolo- 
gist’s Monthly Magazine for July. In the same journal Mr. E, Meyrick 
describes Scoparia vafra n. sp., from Chester. 
Mr. R. Standen records Ancylus fluviatilis var. gibbosa, from Derby- 
shire, in The Journal of Conchology for July. In the same journal Mr. 
W. Denison Roebuck describes a case of perfect albinism in Limax arborum, 
‘and gives it the name ‘ var. nov. albinos Roebuck.’ 
Naturalist, 
