Short Notes 



Whilst gossiping on matters botan- 

 cal, allow me to ask for fuller 

 information where was gathered 

 (and when) the Wahlenhergia heder- 

 acea, the ivy-leaved bell-flower, 

 reported on pp. 47 -48 of last issue, 

 as " collected during the day," and 

 named by two gentlemen at the 

 Consolidated Naturalists' Meeting ? 

 It used to occur near Ripponden, 

 and also near Gargrave-by-Skipton, 

 and if from either of the old locali- 

 ties, or from a newly-discovered 

 one, it wiU be equally interesting 

 to have particulars corroborative of 

 the non-extinction of this rare 

 Atlantic-type plant in West York- 

 shire. Our stations have been 

 thought extinct, and they are but 

 the outposts at best of the plant's 

 range in England — a range in the 

 case of these plants of Atlantic, 

 or western type, which is gradu- 

 ally becoming more restricted. — 

 F. Arnold Lees. 



[The plant referred to was gathered 

 on the same day on which it was 

 exhibited, by Rev. W. Fowler 

 and Mr. R. Jessop, in the Wes- 

 senden valley, a rather high 

 moorland about eight miles west 

 of Huddersfield, where it has 

 been known for the last seven 

 or eight years. It has also been 

 gathered near Cook's Study, and 

 , at Dunford Bridge — both high 

 moorlands (about 1500 feet) on 

 the Yorkshire side of the range 

 which divides that county from 

 Cheshire and Derbyshire.^ — Eds. 

 'Nat] 



Orchidace^. — As I can give 

 perfectly reliable information to 

 Mr. J. Anderson, Jun., Alresford, 



AND Queries. 57 



Hants, as to Orchidacece in this 

 neighbourhood, I have much plea- 

 sure in doing so, more especially as 

 I know Alresford well, having lived 

 ten years at Winchester (seven 

 miles ofi"), four years of which I 

 spent at the coUege, and where I 

 began my natural history tastes. 

 This place is on the magnesian 

 limestone (Permian series) a strip 

 of which runs down the middle of 

 Yorkshire into Nottinghamshire. I 

 have this year gathered with my 

 own hand the following species of 

 the order Orchidaceoe. In names I 

 foUow Bentham's Handbook : — 

 Epipactis latifolia, Listera ovata, 0. 

 Morio, 0. ustulata, 0. mascula, 0. 

 macidata, 0. pyramidalis, Habena- 

 ria bifolia, and viridis — all the 

 above abundant ; Oplwys apifera 

 and muscifera — but not, at least 

 now, as has been given in a most 

 reliable Yorkshire list of this 

 locality. I have also the extreme 

 pleasure of being able to state that 

 Cypripedium Calceolus (lady's slip- 

 per) still exists in Wharfedale. I 

 will willingly give Mr. Anderson 

 my authority, which will I am sure 

 satisfy him, but I do not give the 

 exact spot, as I would not push my 

 enquiry so far, seeing that my 

 informant very properly wished it 

 to be kept a secret. — J. S. Wesley. 

 Wetherby, Oct. ith, 1875. 



Rare Birds at Bridlington. — 

 Pair of waxwings (MotaciUa Yar- 

 rellii) shot by R. Morris, Aug. 10th, 

 1865. — Great squa gull {Lestris 

 cataractes) shot by R. Morris, Dec. 

 17th, 1867. On the 21st, one old 

 bird of the Richardson's squa (L. 

 parasiticus), shot by the same per- 



