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A quarry I passed was brilliant with the crimson heads of the 
Nodding Thistle, and golden tufts of Crepis virens, and the banks 
ed with d 
ing 
ivided pole th delicate pink-gilled Mushrooms that dotted the 
seat at my feet and the glorious view extending over miles and miles 
of vale and wold—a view which on this day was more beautiful than 
common, for the torrential rains had formed long reaches of water 
in the low country which glittered like mirrors in the slanting 
sunshine, and put one in mind of the old days when it was part of 
the duties of the monks at Flixton Spital to guide travellers across 
the morass that lay between the wold and the northern moors. 
This field was strewn with flat stones, and under them lurked an 
extraordinary profusion of Geodephaga. As many as a dozen 
Calathus cisteloides would be found under a single fragment. The 
tawny Amara fulva too was here, coloured no doubt protectively to 
harmonise with the sand among which it lives. Another insect 
common here was Harpalus eneus in a form which prevails all over 
this district, but is not alluded to by Canon Fowler. The apex of 
the elytra is not deeply emarginate but only sinuate even in the 
males. As the depth of the emargination is often made the specific 
distinction of Harpalus eneus, this variety requires special attention, 
and indeed is recognised by Dawson as ‘ Variety y, elytris apice 
leviter sinuatis” In a nest of Red Ants I found the ten tufted 
Santo iies: stercorarius, a fine addition to the Yorkshire list 
which I left most reluctantly, the spacious sunlit 
view, the beetle-haunted stones, or the mushrooms; but we are 
only mortal, and under the pressure of this weakness I sauntered 
back to the inn and its hospitable landlady, and then rode slowly 
Thome by the waving cornfields and plum-orchards of Snainton and 
the whispering Aspens that line the streams by Wykeham Abbey. 
NOTES—BOTANY. 
Another Teesdale Locali Ehrh.—In May 1888, 
my father ride this eae * secagros yina ber ata im alitde of nearly 1,600 feet 
on the a. of Cronkley Fell, towards the ridge of Mickle Fell. is station 
is a few miles to the W. S. W. of and mu = higher up than the old station near the 
river below the High Force.—W. West, Jun., St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
August 8th, 1895. 
ia at Arncliffe, Wharfedale.—Three or four plants of the 
*Reed-mace’ are now =. hse seen with their tufted spikelets in full bloom in the ol 
disused mill-pond at ene = common plant but I think this station 
i ves 
sgn a 750 
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