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The Naturalist. 



time of the year (at Lewisliam). Troth is certainly sometimes 

 ' stranger than fiction.' It is often supposed that stray examples 

 captured in the spring have hibernated. Possibly this may some- 

 times be the case, but some other explanation must be sought for the 

 present anomalous (for England) appearance. Either they are 

 examples that should have come out last autumn, but were checked 

 by uncongenial weather, or they have remained in the pupa state for 

 a protracted period, or perhaps there is a little of both these causes. 

 To my idea the latter may probably be the more potent of the two, if 

 both time and place be taken into consideration, I have this June 

 seen more G. Edusa here in two days than in eight years, even at 

 their usual period. The present apparition shows us how little we 

 really know of the habits of our species of Colias.^' 



The other fact is possibly accounted for through the immense 

 numbers which have appeared in the southern counties. It seems 

 very likely that out of so many, a number must necessarily get 

 scattered abroad, in a variety of ways, and thus get distributed over 

 the country. It may be objected to this, that many known abundant 

 species in the south are never seen in the northern counties ; but, if 

 examined, this will probably be found to apply only to such species 

 as seldom fly many yards from the spot on which they were born, &c., 

 whilst Edusa is strong on the wing, and of a decidedly wandering 

 disposition. I confess this explanation is by no means altogether 

 satisfactory, but it is the best I can give. Certainly I cannot for a 

 moment think the Yorkshire specimens were born in the county, or 

 have even hibernated in it, as no one seems to have seen a specimen 

 last autumn. 



TWO UNRECORDED LINCOLNSHIRE PLANTS. 



By F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S. 



T HAVE to-day had the pleasure of gathering, within a mile of Rasen, 

 two plants, Fyrola minor ^ Linn., and Cardiiu8 pratensis^ Huds,, by no 

 means common or well known to West Yorkshire botanists, and both 

 of which have not hitherto, according to the records of Topographical 

 Botany, been found in Lincolnsliire and recognised as natives there, 

 although both of them are so most undoubtedly. The pretty waxen- 

 belled Pyrola, the Lesser Winter Green, occurs in some plenty in the 

 shady turf of the fir-woods around Market Rasen ; the Pinus sylvestris 

 flourishing famously and covering large areas upon the red sandy soil 



