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adds Quedius lateralis, Ilyobates nigricollis, and Scaphidium quad- 

 rimaculatum. From "Whittle Dene are Agathidium nigripenne, 

 and Brachypterus pubescens. The rare Philonthus micans was 

 taken at Boldon Flats, in September. Ptilinus pectinicomis oc- 

 curred at Long Benton. Alpliitdbius piceus was brought to me 

 from Seghill colliery, where it swarms in the underground stables, 

 at the foot of the shaft. Blaps mucronata is another subterra- 

 nean dweller, and abounds in many of our deepest pits. At 

 Durham, amongst a cloud of good things taken by the Rev. E. 

 Kirwood, is Byturus fumatus, Ptilinus pectinicomis, and Xylo- 

 terus domesticus. — Ibid. 



Notices of Rare Plants. — Besides the Rosa rubiginosa and the 

 Trifolium oehroleueum, previously mentioned, I have detected the 

 following plants near Seaton this summer : — Trifolium scabrum 

 in a sandy grass-field near the Tees bay. Also in a large meadow, 

 near the last spot, several fine plants of the Lucerne — Medicago 

 sativa ; the field is sandy, and far from any garden or house. 



The following plants I gathered in the ballast, chiefly chalk, 

 to the North of Old Hartlepool : — One fine plant of Saintfoin, 

 Onobrychis sativa and two or three plants of Astragalus glyciphyl- 

 lus. The latter plant is not given in Mr. Lawson's notes of the 

 "Flora of the Hartlepool Ballast Hills," published in Yol. V, Part 

 IV, of the Trans. Tynes. Nat. Field Club. 



The following species were found on the ballast (mostly chalk) 

 near to West Hartlepool, south of the town. A single plant of 

 Blitum virgatum, or Strawberry Blite, not a native, but from 

 Spain ; South Europe, &e. — not in Lawson's list. A handsome 

 white flowered plant, which is rare, and not in Lawson's list, is 

 Lepidium Braba. Nor is it in Smith's English Flora. Three or 

 four plants of it I found in the "West Hartlepool ballast. Vicia 

 Bobartii, a beautiful crimson-flowered delicate vetch, on the 

 chalk ballast, West Hartlepool — a few plants : not given in Law- 

 son's paper. 



I should also mention that Trifolium oehroleueum, Astragalus 

 glyciphyllus, Blitum virgatum, Lepidium Braba, and Vicia Bobur- 

 tii, are not included in Mr. Norman's paper on South Durham 



