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NOTES—BOTANY. 
Varieties of Carex Goodenovii and Helianthemum Chamecystus at 
Hayburn Wyke.—At the excursion of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union to 
Hayburn Wyke on July 11th, 1891, two plants were found which I think are worth 
recording. Since I returned to London I have been ooking over gatherings of 
which appears to be somewhat like a paint of the same Sg found some years 
Mr. W, 
oO 5 Wiid2. Se 
that the Isle of Wight plant has one or more r ings and ours a spot. 
Mr. = ore says in the Supp. Flo. Vect. : i taathenick eulgar Gun e var. 
Snooke (Flor. Vectiana). The flowers e marked with a 
phere > ic e Aoney ani but in other respects the variety does hos differ gies a 
> J. of Botany, 1871, p. 136.—WaALTER W. REE 
= aot Pac tot. 
Volvox.—The passage quoted by Mr. Lord from the Journal of the Royal 
Microscopical iene ts is a good illustration of the fact that a ange cig 
is n 
not rarely ambi What the writer meant to say, I have no doubt, was 
—that i ame leben only two kinds of with, viz., 
(1) Non-sexual ee an sexual ones that are usually proterogynous, 
rate this r. Klein himself states in the paper abstracted, a copy of whi 
ic 
S kek enough to send me. The importance of the statement is 
ible and ceniie exist. The fact is V. aureus exhibits a remarkable case of 
pleomorphism, for without epi a spe ecific characters it presents itself in a large 
number of forms, differing in composition as regards sterile and fertile cells, and 
the degree o pike gpa ics pears c by the reproductive ells of the young colonies 
colo i i y m 
observed va 
the sacking at they are due’ to the fainest of the environment, and are 
lally i ‘o this he 
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spoken of as the sexual Nia of V. globator boa ripe oospores. In 
statement respecting Spherostra volvox I think we have a survival of the confusion 
hich has so long prevailed in this country in connection with the species of 
uivok trons Hick, Manche ester, November 14th, 1891 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
epidoptera in Upper menledals, Au t the ees of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union to Keld and Dita ce Angus rd to 5th, 189% 
the following lepidoptera were observed on the wing :—Chortobius » pam phils, 
ive sea rom th xis, Larentia ro ve agtie on the — a Kisdon, flying off in 
Larentia olivata sb aa me co v4 s met with in seve 
Yorkshire Nocalities, pa ‘that oe has never roi it in the uae himself. —J- H. 
ROWNTREE, Scarborough, 
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Naturalist, 
