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The Naturalist, 



at Netherton, near Bretton Hall, 

 var. crystallina of Cochlicopa tri- 

 dens. The finding of this shell 

 shows that every member who can, 

 ought to make a point of attending 

 the meetings of the Consolidated 

 Society ; as, but for the meeting at 

 High Hoyland, this shell might 

 never have been included in the 

 fauna of the district. Perhaps it 

 would have been better if the shell 

 had not been found, as I have been 

 informed that the place is now 

 something like a ploughed field, 

 and if so, some of our so-called 

 Naturalists have a great deal to 

 answer for. But to return to Coch- 

 licopa tridens. I find that when 

 the type and var. are found toge- 

 ther, the type appears to be of an 

 intermediate character as to colour, 

 being white about one-sixteenth of 

 an inch from the spire end. I 

 shall be glad to know if other 

 conchologists have observed the 

 same thing. — Jno. Conacher, Jun. 



Huddersfield, July, 1875. 



DiCRANUM MONTANUM in Scot- 

 land. The Rev. J. Fergusson 

 announces, in the Scottish Natu- 

 ralist " for July, that he has found 

 this rare moss in Craighall Den, 

 near Blairgowrie. This is the first 

 time this moss has been found in 

 Scotland, and it is only the second 

 locality for it in the British Islands, 

 having been first found by Mr. Jas. 

 Bagnall on the trunk of an oak in 

 Sutton Park, near Birmingham. 

 One of its principal distinguishing 

 characters is, its having the margin 

 of the leaf sharply and distinctly 

 denticulate above, and the nerve at 

 the back and near the apex is 

 similarly toothed. 



A PAIR of tomtits have brought 

 ofi" a nest of twelve young ones, 

 which they have actually hatched 

 and reared under the burner of one 

 of the public pillar lamps in the 

 busiest part of High Street, Ash- 

 iord. -—Chatham News. 



Larus ridibundus. — I have to 

 record the capture of a pair Black- 

 headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) — 

 m.ale and female — on the 3rd of this 

 month, at South Kirkby, about 

 seven miles from here. They were 

 in full breeding plumage. Their 

 occurrence at this season, so far 

 from their usual haunts, is rather 

 singular. — Wm. Jas. Cope. 



Barnsley, June, 1875. 



A New British Carex. — In the 

 Journal of Botany " for July, 

 Dr. H. Trimen, F.L.S., of the 

 British Museum, describes and 

 figures a new species, Carex ornitho- 

 poda, found by Messrs. John 

 Whitehead and H. Newton, in 

 May, 1874, at Miller's Dale, Der- 

 byshire. Its nearest ally is C. 

 digitata, from which it difiers in its 

 smaller size, with a shorter rhizome 

 and branch, much closer inflor- 

 escence, female spikes shorter, more 

 curved, and nearly sessile, its scales 

 smaller and paler in colour, con- 

 siderably shorter than the fruit. 

 Dr. Trimen indicates several coun- 

 ties in which C. digitata is found, 

 including Derbyshire and York- 

 shire, and suggests that those 

 botanists who have the opportunity 

 should search these localities for 

 C. ornithopada. Its habitat in 

 Miller's Dale is on dry, grassy 

 banks, and on ledges of dry and 

 exposed limestone rocks. 



