334 Various Notes. 
NOTE—BIRDS. — 
Wood Sandpiper in Lancashire.—I have spacers seria a Wood 
Sandpiper (Zotanus glareola) which was shot as it rose from ond at 
roy near Ashton-under-Lyn eter tts, en whose 
possession it still in t or September, about ye 7 his 
specie rarely visits Lancashire that it m of interest to git another 
ve nstances already recorded oe = is i an twenty years 
ce the example in question was obtained.—Cuas. OLpHaAM, Alderley 
doe: ots Se reeguiets 1898. 
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NOTES—FLOWERING PLANTS. 
‘Herba Bekan’ at Furness Abbey: Another Point (see ‘ Naturalist,’ 
March and April 1895 ; nee st 1897, pp. 234-5).—When collecting mate rial 
for the twelfth east of the ‘ Constituents of airs Lancashire Flora’ (that 
containing Afr and ‘Sol mira ee August 1 I perforce consulted 
Vest’ e the C 
ie Int 
stands the Virgin with the Child’ in he : arms, and springing from the 
ground on either side of her are two plants whi ch West considers to repre- 
sent the ‘Herba Bekan.’ Above these, wate ting a shield on either side 
of the figure, are two  hraucties with similar folia The question arose, 
a 
the foliage seemed only conventional. I applied to Dr. T. K. Fell, of 
Barrow. The Siclt s was a very bea utiful photograph rt the seal as figured 
in Beck’s ‘Asiialon Furnesienses.’ In this the foliage looked more like oak 
than anything else, but of course it was only a copy ac rhe e epee 
was circulated, and the consensus of opinion named it e gentleman 
going so far as to connect it with the monks’ former dwelling pace Tulket 
in Amounderness, the latter word being derived from a ak. For 
another purpose Dr. Fell and Mr. H. en aythorpe, F.S. A. “(Scot.) went 
into the matter, and have succeeded in getting a plate of srr impression of 
on een: 
work, this paper, worth doing and well done. Photographs (‘ process sed,’ of 
te) are given of the Surrender Seal, with crag and West's vidernsts 
and a full page of the Deed and its signatur 
ee To up—In the last few years it has ‘ai proved, so far as such a 
hie can ia be proved, 
’ (1) West’s plate is wrong. 
(2) We know nothing of Bekan, unless it be a personal name. 
(3) That Solanum dulcamara is the ‘ Herba’ intended. 
(4) That Afropa is an alien at Furness Abbey, and 
: (5) L paged the foliage on ve bobtues Seal ee the Abbey is oak, there- 
ore 
LO Ze ‘i fall most of the mee in this, and it is but fitting that the 
: Barrow Naturalists’ Field Club and Literary and ae Association ’ 
should issue the paper in their ‘ Proceedings, 1896-7,’ for it has no reference 
FOO r field work or literature, and ~~ only tele on natural science. 
L. party, Ulverston, 13th October 1808. 
“Naturalist, 
