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but I saw no signs of Me grecsit and could hardly expect any as 
there is not a ditch running into i e Gull and Duck Pond on 
the east side of Hardwick Hill was very low, but there was nothing 
worthy of a note to be seen. The Gullery is an off-shoot from 
Mr. R. N. T. Nelthorpe’s more famous one at Twigmoor, and would 
soon be as fine were it properly protected by trees, and carefully 
watched. I saw plenty of young Black-headed Gulls (Zarus 
ridibundus L..), and Wild Ducks (Azas boschas L.), and what I took 
to be a pair of Redshanks (Zotanus calidris L.) and young, earlier in 
the summer, while botanising on the Common. In September a few 
pairs of Teal (Querguedula crecca L.) and eighty Wild Duck were 
flying round the pond after I had left it. The prolonged heat of the 
summer was shown by Gentiana Pneumonanthe L., Drosera rotundi- 
Jolia L., and Teucrium Scorodonia L. being in flower, while one spot 
of boggy gronnd was a lovely white with the flowers of Parnassia 
palustris L. 
On the r2th of September, 1893, I examined the moat round 
the old Hall, at South Kelsey, which was drained the year before 
but only dried up this season. There is no inflow or spring here 
apparently, so the water is only ‘ ait which has percolated through 
the Kimeridge Clay around. The whole bed was a mass of luxuriant 
vegetation, but the species only of fa likely to be found in such 
a situation, with the exception of Lycopus europeus L., whichI have 
not hitherto found in a pond away from the Carrs or land-drains. 
Rumex maritimus L. was certainly the species found here 
The Lincolnshire County Herbarium grows apace, and will be 
almost perfect by the end of this season, if it progresses at its 
present rate. While 20,000 place notes are tabulated in ‘The 
Locality Register’ as the result of two years’ incessant labour. May 
I beg all botanists to send me full notes of rare Lincolnshire plants 
in their private collections, with parish, name of collector, and date 
appended 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
he Journal of the Linnean aon d oe No. 156, contains the seco 
iisinheosee of Prof. W. A. Her * Notes on British Tunicata,’ mages an 
—_ of no less than poe yea The present instalment give 
ections of the former paper, pa es on some of the British Cynthiide, 2 ead 
My ilastiated by three plates. 
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Bir yr we see 
that Mr. C. L. Rothera, the borough coroner, in giving the ninth of the — at 
the beginning of last month, took the works of Charles Darwin for his them 
Jan. 1894. 1894. 
