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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Sirex gigas in Somerset. — I have recently had a very fine speci- 

 men of Sirex gigas sent me from Ashbrittle, Somerset, it was found 

 amongst some wood belonging to a carpenter there, and I am told it 

 required four carpenters to capture it, and after trying various ways 

 to kill it, they at last settled it with one of their hammers, it was how- 

 ever in good condition but somewhat faded — F. Milton, Stamford 

 Hill, N. 



Abnormal Dog-Daisy— At a recent meeting of the Bradford 

 Naturalist's Society, Mr. J. Dyson exhibited some remarkably abnormal 

 flowers of the Dog Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum in which the 

 outside, or ray florets were all tubular instead of ligulate. They had 

 been plucked from a plant at Esholt, on which all the flowers were of 

 this peculiar form. — j. W. Carter, Manningham, Bradford. 



A fungi foray in Dueham.- — -Mr. Soutter and I had a most delight- 

 ful day on Tuesday the 15th September. The atmospheric conditions 

 were perfect. Fungi however were not so plentiful as last year. 

 Where we saw hundreds then, we found but ones and twos this time. 

 The only fungi we saw any quantity of were Lactarius blennius and 

 L. torminosus. We gathered also the only edible species, Lactarius 

 deliciosus. Of Boleti we gathered flavus, scaber, and chrysenteron, also 

 the Fly Agaric, A. muscarius, and the only edible member of the same 

 group, A. rufescens. We finished up with a nice little dinner at 

 Witton-le-Wear, at 4.30 p.m. to which we did justice. — W. Herbert 

 Smith, Durham. 



TIDING AT EASTERTIDE. 



By C. H. H. WALKER. 



( Concluded ). 



Sagartia troglodytes, a rather pretty and exceedingly hardy anemone 

 may be found in rock pools, among the Coralline, and, like all other 

 species, must be removed together with the fragments of rock to which 

 the base is attached. Contrary to the experience of some observers, 

 we have found that 5. troglodytes rarely adapts the nomadic habits of 

 other anemones, scarcely ever moving from the place it originally 

 adopted as its home. In captivity, it loses much of its original 

 colouration, becoming a paler brown, while the bluish markings on the 



