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2. SCHEUCHZERIA PALUSTRIS, L. 



Capt. Norman, R.N., calls my attention to the following communication 

 which I put oti record, as it may catch the eye of some of our observers in 

 the bleak marshy spots on the Northumbrian coast, some of which are 

 probably imperfectly explored. The plant to which attention is called is 

 a small one, the companion of Carices and even Sphagnum, and may not 

 always be in blossom. " To the Editor of the Standard : — Sir, I have before 

 me a dried specimen of Scheuchzeria palustris, which was gathered four 

 or live years ago in Northumberland. For obvious reasons I refrain from 

 specifying the exact locality, but it was growing within a few hundred 

 yards of the sea. I cannot say whether the plant is still there ; it will, 

 however, be interesting to Botanists to hear of a fresh locality." 



T. H. Archer-Hind. 

 Combes Fishacre House, Newton Abbott, 

 February 12th, 1889. 



This plant is figured in Smith's edition of the Flora Lapponica, t. 10, 

 f. I, and described at p. 103. It was first discovered in 1807 in Britain, by 

 the Rev. J. Dalton, in a marsh called Lakeby Car, near Borough-bridge, 

 Yorkshire. (Smith's English Flora, n., p. 199.) Since then it has been 

 found on Thorne Moor, near Doncaster ; and at Bomerepool near Shrews- 

 bury. In 1833, Mr Duff gathered it at Methven near Perth. (Hooker's 

 Brit. Flora, 4th Edit., p. 153.) "A very rare plant in Switzerland, more 

 plentiful in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Lapland." (Sir J. E. Smith.) 



Increased spread of Pseudococebus FagL By James Hardy. 



If carefully looked for, the Coccus of the beech tree (Pseudococcus Far/i) 

 will probably be found to have a wider distribution, than hitherto 

 attributed to it. At Shawdon Gardens, on June 2nd, 18SS, I noticed it on 

 the beech hedge of the garden at the south east corner where it has been 

 apparently not of long continuance ; and again ou 25th of the same month 

 it was present in small quantity on the beech hedge of Mr Hindmarsh's 

 garden at Ilderton. When at Dunstan Hill, county Durham, after the 

 middle of August, it was found that numbers of old trees, but not every 

 one, in the policy were infested ; and also the younger trees in the Rev. 

 R. H. Williamson's grounds at Whickham, in the same county, where I 

 have previously recorded it from the Wishing Well Dean, which is not a 

 mile distant. On September 11th, when on my way to Canonbie, I had to 

 wait at St. Boswell's station, and availed myself of the occasion to walk up 

 the side of the Tweed to Ravenswood. Here the Pseudococcus was visible 

 on the bark of some avenue-like trees, where the walk entered the Ravens- 

 wood grounds. After its presence at Maxton- House, lower down the 

 Tweed, I expected to find it elsewhere on Tweedside. Its area at present 

 is very limited in extent at both places. 



