mf 4 * Pig 
a, oe * ‘ 
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x + ‘ 
es * he NOTES—MAMMALIA 
* i ify Mometaret 1 Bat in Swaledale. e little time ago Mr. John Shillito, “as 
ae iy} Halifax ed me a fine example of yerone auritus, which was caught at Ric 
eh nond, Yorkshire, on the 16th September. A ough the species is one of wid 
i . 
2a 
‘= on ones, it is nevertheless interesting to have definite records for fresh 
Me 1891. 
> 
NISON ROEBUCK, aie Get. 
7 Onusial ests of Water Voles.—It is, I suppose, peels known that 
oe Parets of the ge he (arviceta amphi) are a in a nest placed at the 
a burrow in the of some r pond, but this is not invariably 
Ante n feist ie for Gibbs oon in the mia: teetie at Pickmere — 
r Northwich, one day at the latter end of June, four or five ews ago, I fou 
thre ball- shaped nests, made of gnawed reeds and flags, and placed on a se 
of the same materials, which raised them .above the water. Two of the nests 
were € t the third contained three young Vo fur was reddish 
brown above, inclining to black in the dorsal line, and fawn colour 
one ex ur was very , almost black al er. e | of the 
ngth of 
length of tail, 1 in. 2 lines.—CHas. OLDHAM, Ashton-on- Mersey, Dec. 
NOTE—FUNGI. 
Distribution of Strobilomyces strobilaceus.—Among the earlier Scottish 
botanists Sirbiomgee strobilaceus Berk. was known by the generic name of 
Boletus. ti ribed in Vahl’s ‘ sisigate Danica’ as Boletus floccopus, and is 
figured by Sco oy as B. strobila ae was retained in that genus until 
separated by Berk eley, who fetid i o the new genus _otharige yg sank me 
retained at first Vahl’s specific name, but pesca substituted that oles copoli. 
The plant is rare, but by no means confined in this country to . oe 
in he a Sie of in, as Peon by Mr. Soppitt in the : * Nat 
of D ber i with inter alia loca a aigie ‘Hall, 
Linidigowshire, Dothie F orest, 3, ab -shire, and was found near Crieff, i 
Perthshire, members of the Scottish Crypto amic Society, pe “their an cual 
Saggy Bs y 89.—A. B. STEELE, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, 
NOTE— BOTANY. 
Crocus vernus and Crocus nudiflorus a 
Mr, Cornelius Brown, i in his ‘ History of Morcactnmliie ont aie fe op opinion 
in these words : e abundance of these two crocuses 
ng. 
writing about 1738, says: ‘It see o me that some roots might have been 
carried to that place ey Meadows) among the is g fi a garden, but when 
I consider hey w very numerous, and Ss very much, and a friend 
assured me he had for sear I began to doubt 
n 
hoor — might no ete of s Spont aneous grow bln Nowada ae 
4 gudes, | Yat to it. 
crocuses ¢ caltiy vated in sy a since 1620, two sorts are fo 
1 their growth in England being 
n é rejectamentis hortorum.— HENRY PayNE, 
erham, De 
, 1891. 
oe of Central Europe, and through 
c enees. Full particulars of 
13 
Crocus, published by Dulau in 1886.—J. 6B G. Bee _ monograph ie rire 
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