60 - -MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Onobrychis sativa.* Cultivated, and as an estray (in conse- 
quence) about Burton Leonard. 
Chenopodium rubrum. Lane corner above the Robert Beck 
bridge, towards Burton. 
Polygonum maculatum T.& D. Waste ground near Ripon 
(Mr. Heslington), growing four feet high, with main stem ‘as 
thick as a cudgel.’ 
Polyporus igniarius. Growing like rusty horse-hooves from an . 
old willow by brook at Hookstone quarries. 
Fistulina hepatica. On an ivy-crowned oak in Brearton Lane. 
Cooked and eaten, with éc/a¢ sauce: its aspect when young and 
freshly cut-into that of tongue; its flavour that of liver and 
lambs’-fry rather than beef-steak. 
The object of these rambling notes on the Nidd Valley flora 
being to stimulate, not satiate, an end must be made here 
NOTE—MAMMALIA 
Erratum : Water Shrew in North Notts (not North Wales, as printed in 
the ‘ Naturalist’ for leitnary, pt 2). 
NOTE—MOLLUSCA. 
Cuttle-fish at Hinaber ugh.—For several weeks enormous quantities of 
Cuttle-fish have been cast ashore ioe every tide on the coast at Flamborough. 
They generally eclind a large on account of their value for bait. The 
orig hee taken lange catches of fish lately, more than could be sold at any 
t Flamborough. — THEW BAILEY, Flamborough, Jan. 13th, 1894. 
NOTES—COLEOPTERA. 
Acanthocinus edilis in Derbyshire.—I — in my possession two specimens 
of Acanthocinus edilis, both females, captured and given to me alive—one in 
Derby and the other at Denby. The one aaah at Denb 
Notes 
punctate : fitan Askham 7% It had not bee ng ae und os Yorkshire when 
— — wrote Volume II. of his British Co leopte I have met with 
the fine and rt Oxypoda os both ete within a mile of 
this Ma (Ayton). I he em under stones among dead hawthorn leaves, one 
er 1892, an the ‘ake er in i sam a of 5  e year. 
i Ph elphor Ss alpinus on birch trees A fe Valley. T was ee Sacer oe to 
‘ : 
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t wit great quantities of 
pe Malet bifrons, ieee - hatch a toma calcarata. ead rat I put out asa 
trap attracted an ing number of Nacophoras ceil and ule ee ’ 
es some JV. pbevisercse and St/pha rugosa.—W. C Y, West Ayt 
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