150 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
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of the Lesser Tern.—I w small colony of the Lesser 
Tem (Serna minuta) at the well- caown teenies eaiet at Spurn during the first 
week of June 1894, and saw a clutch of three eggs which contained one rather 
remarkable specimen. This was of a somewhat darker ground wolder thas the 
The variety in —— s a ground-colour of pale stone or light brown, and the 
remarkable feature shoei it is that it has a blotch of reddish purple marking about 
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band is one blotch, not consisting of the usual spots and spec 
friend of mine also noticed a week or so later a clutch of rae eggs of the 
Lesser Tern. [I thi nk this is worth recording, as a clutch of four eggs of this 
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usual number, or sometimes three. I have never ockiiegeal heard is a clutch of 
teal te t 1 have found that they often By. three eggs. I am glad to see the birds 
o be specially protected at Spurn th sand the next five years, ¢° it is only 
int ‘they should be.—E. G. PoTTeEr, You) March 21st, 1895. 
NOTE—ALGZ. 
Further Notes on Certain Algz.—My oan oa during the progres 
of - “Bibliography "of the Algze, been dra e little plants whieh 
gined h 
es ly as he . 
382-384, Dr. Nordstedt. made a cominonte ion the ritish. eB 
Vaucheriz, but without mention at Lage Sas r ‘ehtsts he personally had 
me. Chamesiphon confervicola was noted as parasitic upon Cladophora at Salt 
marshe, near Goole. Vaucheria Kesha Bang. et , from river between a8 Cu lly 
and Barmouth, near Ferry Station ; Greenodd, near ar Ulverston ; and Brou 
Yorks. V.synandra Woronin in Bot. Zeit., 1869, was found tony at ras 
and at — V. thurstit Woron., loc. cit., occurr - Brough and © 
Greenodd. ew species of Nordstedt’s, V. s, cath Present = V. velutina 
Carm. ; the , eluting of aye go! Me f seta ag and not ye of Agar — 
was not given to me as found in Englan ut specimens were obtained of 
J. monoica and meek Poe Gre wid, es. as Aap as from brackish water at 
Maldon, Essex, and the Thames banks at Nordstedt, in the little paper 
referred to, states that Mr. Holmes’ V. pletoide ( (Brit. Alg. Rar. Exsicc., 
from Weymouth, was really spherispora. It is worthy of mention that 
men 0 
is species 
W. BARWELL TURNER, Chaneleown, Leeds, April 26th, 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
particulars on this subject consult ‘ Notes and 
eries ’ of last Lg (sub voce a urness Abbey’). The ‘beacon’ derivation is 
ew, as it is to ‘ound in Evans’ ‘ Furness and Furness Abbey,’ 1842, and it 
is probably older, ‘at t it 2? Te me it appears more like tho: onderful 
philological gu found in guide books. For an, . 
mames) are sup o have a comm 4 axon ‘ bekene, 
, has also been suggest However, all this is hardly a subject for 
discussion in these pages, and it would be better to re-open the question by 
replying to a partly answered query of mine in ‘ Notes and —, of last year. 
There mt ye sgt. a more word answer in the Ese a corr ndent of 
e, but I am not at liberty to use material belonging to path ip: . PETTY, 
wr ig ch, 1895. 
