Short Notes and Queries. 



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which were occasionally eaten as a vegetable, under the name " wild 

 asparagus." Other noteworthy species were Aconitmn Napellus, 

 Helleborus foetidus, Draha muralis, ^rod'ium moschatum, Impatiens Noli me 

 tangere, Lathyrus ApJiaca and Nissolia, Sedum album and dasyphyllum, 

 Trinia vulgaris^ Polemonium coeruleum, Verbascmn Lychiitis, Herminium 

 Monorchis and Fritillaria Meleagris ; but several of these had not 

 improbably been introduced by human means. Of the 632 species 

 640 were probably natives, 43 denizens, 30 colonists ; the remainder, 

 with a number of other species not admitted into the list of British 

 plants, being aliens and casuals. 



Mr. Geo. Webster will see, by 

 this number of the Nalmralist, that 

 the bramble named is Bubus lacinia- 

 tus. 



Sphinx Coitvolvuli at Armi- 

 TAOE Bridge. — A specimen of 

 Sphinx Convolvuli has just been 

 taken here. — G. C. B. Madden. 



Armitage Bridge Vicarage, 



HuddersUeld, Sept. 21st, 1875. 



On the 23rd Sept. last I took a 

 worn male specimen of E'iiperia 

 fulvago on a piece of wood lying on 

 the grass in a plantation near the 

 Panorama View, Barmouth, North 

 Wales. I believe it is new to the 

 district. — S. Bairstow. 



HuddersUeld, Oct. 3rd, 1875. 



Naias flexilis. — I have just 

 heard that a very rare plant, Naias 

 flexilis, has been found in Clunie 

 Loch, near Blairgowrie, by Mr. 

 Sturrock, schoolmaster, and another 

 gentleman, and exhibited for them 

 by Professor Balfour, at the meet- 

 ing of the British Association, at 

 Bristol. A local paper states that 



this is the only locaUty where it 

 has been found in Britain ; but I 

 find in Jeffrey's " British Concho- 

 logy," vol. 1, p. 50, it is there 

 mentioned as having been found in 

 the Hebrides and the West of 

 Ireland. — J ohn Conacher, Jun. 



Huddersfield, October 19th. 



Veronica triphyllos and 

 Scheuchzeria palustris. — Has 

 any botanist found V. triphyllos 

 lately at any of the recorded sta- 

 tions 1 I found it plentifully five 

 or six years ago, at the York one, 

 but since then have not seen it. Is 

 it at all susceptible to cold, wet 

 springs i I should also be glad to 

 hear if the Scheuchzeria occurs and 

 flowers at the stations in West 

 Riding flora. It occurs plentifully 

 at Leckby Carr, but so far as I have 

 seen has produced no flowers for a 

 number of years. The same is the 

 case with Lysimachia thyrsiflora, 

 which grows with it. The trees 

 planted to drain the Carr are now 

 getting up, and the partial shade 

 may prevent the plants going 

 through a ripening process neces- 

 sary to flower. — G. Webster, York. 



