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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



A. basilinea — On various low plants 

 and com ricks. • 



L. turca — On grass in woods, south 

 of England. 



L. straminea — On reeds at Hammer- 

 smith. 



L. filigrammaria — On bilberry and 

 s alio AY. 



L. cribrum — In dead thistle stems ; 

 on Paley Heath, Hants, &c. 

 Eggs wanted of 

 N. hispidaria. 

 H. rupieapraria. 

 H. leucophearia. 

 A. iEsculariae. 



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CAPTURES. 



I have got a splendid specimen of the 

 Goosander, a male bird, shot near Bishop 

 Auckland, last week. I have also obtained 

 | lately, from the mouth of the Tees, a pair of 

 | the Pomarine Skua and a pair of Richard- 

 | son's Skua. — Thomas Hann, Byer's Green, 

 \ Durham. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



O. W., Birmingham. — The are sixty British 

 Butterflies universally admitted to be 

 natives. Three, P. Daplidice, A . Lathonia, 

 and V. Antiopa, that occur so irregularly 

 that some think they are merely immi- 

 grants.and one C, Hippothce, now extinct. 

 It is possible that we have two species 

 under each of the names of C. Cassiope 

 and G. Davus. Your other two queries 

 cannot be answered so exactly. There 

 are about 2000 species of British Moths, 

 and nearly 400 Birds. 



G. C. B., Plymouth, and S. D. B., 

 Pluddersfield, — Thanks for loan of Par- 

 asites, figures of each will appear in their 

 places on our plates of British Butterflies. 



THE EDEL-VVEISS. 



By J. P. Soutter. 

 This plant belongs the natural order Com- 

 posites, which includes many well-known and 

 favourite flowers and weeds, as the dahlia, 

 dandelion and daisy. Its botanic name is 

 Lcontopotlium alpinum (from Leon a lion, and 

 poda a foot), from a fancied resemblance of 

 the heads of flowers to a lion's foot. Its 

 common German name of Edelweiss, mean- 

 ing nobly white, is given to it because of the 

 beautifully white heads of flowers and the 

 white silky hairiness of its leaves. It is a 

 perennial, growing from six to eight inches 

 high, with oblong woolly-looking leaves 

 and pale greenish yellow, rather con- 

 spicuous flowers, produced in a crowded 

 head, surrounded by a star-like whorl of 



