26 NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Roses, which are almost entirely neglected by the con- 
tributors of the older club, have a fair place among Watsonians. 
Messrs. Hall and Colton send a considerable number from York- 
shire, but almost exclusively forms already well known. Hzeracium 
vulgatum Fr. var. rubescens Backh., from Scaleber, and . angustum 
Lindeb., from ‘ Teesdale’ (? co. Durham), should encourage others 
besides Mr. Wheldon to look for local Hawkweeds 
From Lancashire (Walton) we get Evysimum perfoliatum Crantz, 
of course only a weed of cultivation, and Lycopersicum esculentum 
Monch., at Aintree, also as an outcast 
The Southport form of Viola Curtisii is named by Mr. J. G. 
Baker as V. sabulosa. ‘This should be looked for on some of our 
north-east bents. The writer has gathered it several years on the 
Ross links, near Belford. The same contributor, Mr. Wheldon, 
sends Carex extensa Good., and Mr. C. Bailey contributes 
interesting forms of Agrostis alba L., also from Southport. 
Cheshire records are even scantier, as we only note Sisymbrium 
repandum L. (a ballast alien), from Birkenhead, Veronica scutellata L 
var. villosa Schum., from Edgegreen near Malpas, and the aristate 
form of Agrostis vulgaris With., from Delamere. 
The four other northern counties seem to be absolutely unrepre- 
ented. This is not to our credit. It is much to be desired that 
ek perhaps, the pulse of life beats faster, and the busy lives of 
clergy and professional men, from less leisure than many of our 
southern friends can secure, a keener interest should be taken in 
one of the most innocent, most healthful, of recreations, and one in 
which the wisest of monarchs was not ashamed to be known as an 
expert, or from which the Greatest of Teachers did not hesitate 
to draw lessons of the nent truth.—H. F. Fox. 
Mae AND NEWS. 
mong the new members of the Council of boos Boe Society, elected on 
St. ehtws Day, we note the names of Pro . Green and Prof. J. 
Burdon Sanderson. 
pore: 
The vacancy in the Council of the Linnean Society of London caused by the 
lamented decease of Mr. George Brook, was filled up on the 2nd November by 
the election of Mr. Henry Seebohm 
the November number of the * Zootogist,” Mr. Miller Christy, 
gives theo utline of a scheme for mapping the gt apg dietbation a 
Vertebrate ‘Animals throughout the world, which will involve an immens unt 
a eee and r , but which if carried out SS ‘ae thoroughly, 
d be of c Boers er wtility, for _ can be no doubt that the graphic 
ie conveys a ey ws air much more to the eye vette any amount of reading 
statements of ran 8 is caro orthy of ne from naturalists 
interested in so anaeien: a subject as queued distributio: 
“Naturalist, 
