364 Grabham: Spotted Redshank tn East Yorkshire. 
from Newton-in-Cartmel—i.e., the other side of Grange—in 
Withering, and was followed, without locality, by Anthony 
ni! Mason in Aspland’s Guide, 1869.) 
*Qmphalodes verna Mcench. Alien. Garden escape, or is it 
one of the plants of which legend tells, sown or planted 
years ago to astonish visitors in the Lake neighbourhood ? 
Drawn from Finsthwaite by Miss Burton, who says it is 
now thoroughly naturalised. 
Lathrza pastas L. Native. Drawn from Finsthwaite 
Miss Burton. Seiten record, 1864, Linton, Lake 
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eatry, Coniston. 
es Colchicum autumnale L. Alien. Fields near Finsthwaite 
ae House, W. Duckworth; and other localities, Miss Burton. 
oy (Previous record near Newby Bridge, Jas. Woods in 
pt Turner and Dillwyn, Bot. Guide, 1805, .and often repeated.) 
a S palgatAn ty innata R.Br. Native. Drawn from ‘ Woods, 
LS Lake end of ean Miss Burton. 
cic pe L. Alien, of garden origin probably. 
Drawn from Takeoids end of Windermere, Miss Burton. 
Reported some years ago from a field near Woodland, but 
I failed to find it 
ee *Zannichellia aptudiels L. Native. One bit among rubbish 
ae on shore at Bardsea, 1898. Mr. Melvill, to whom the 
scrap was sent, writes ‘Z. ~. vera.’ Original habitat at 
present unknown to me. 
One of the most striking of Miss Burton’s drawings is 
Rosa carolina var. nuttalliana, so certified by Kew people, which 
has established itself on an island in the Leven, and is found — 
frequently in the woods surrounding Windermere Lake. 
Probably birds have had something to do with this general 
_ dispersal, but so conspicuous an alien may be put down as of — 
undoubted garden origin. 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Spotted Redshank in the East Riding.—This summer | happened — 
_ to be in a certain village, — we pri of the city, which is somewha 
renowned for the various at have occurred there at different — 
times. I was shown a aillention of oe birds, and among them one which 
was named the Stilt Plover. took it acu from the top of a kcase, 
and removed a considerable quan res of dust from it, and I then saw’that it _ 
_ Was a young S ented claps nk (Totanus fuscus Ly It was Paes ed in 
gust 189 rey u seldom 
how in my posse n.—OXLEY GRABHAM, M. % Note, 7th O 
