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^GOPODiUM. Ldnn. Gout "Weed. 

 Podagraria, L. Common Gout Weed. P. June — August. Borders 

 of Gardens, or near habitations. 



BuNiUM. Koch. Earth ITut. 

 B. flexuosum, With. Common Earth ISiut. P. May — July. Common. 



PiMPiNELLA. Linn. Burnet Saxifrage. 

 P. Saxifraga, la. Common Burnet Saxifrage. P. June — August. Common. 



SiUM. Linn. Water Paisnep. 

 S. angustifolium, L. I^arrow-leaved Water Parsnep. P. July — September. 

 Burton Salmon, (Mr. Eoberts.) 



CEnanthb. Linn. Water Dropwort. 

 (E. jfistulosa, L. Common Water Dropwort. P. July — September, 



Heath, Sharlestone, &c. 

 CE. crocata, L. Hemlock Water Dropwort. P. July — August. By 

 Stanley Canal, near Heath Bridge. 



i^OTES OlSr THE MUSTELID^ OF NOETHUMBERLAND. 

 ISTo. 3 : — Pine Martin. (Martes dbietum.) 



By T. H. Gibb. 



The agile martin — the most graceful but unhappily the rarest of all our 

 I' Mustelidce, is extremely local in its distribution throughout JSTorthumberland, 

 and although there are numerous localities in the county seemingly well 

 suited to its habits and general economy, I am enabled only after diligent 

 search and enquiry to record the capture of three individuals during a period 

 ranging over twenty years. The first of these which I had the pleasure of ob- 

 serving alive in confinement, was trapped in May in the year 1846, in the Caw- 

 ledge North Wood, a narrow belt of timbered land situated withm two miles 

 of Alnwick. When the animal was taken from the trap, which was done with 

 no little difficulty as it kept up an unceasing defensive hostility all the while 

 the kindly office was being performed, it was placed in a large cage and 

 thence removed to Alnwick where it was exhibited as a rara avis. During its 

 public exhibition the captive proved himself worthy of the common charac- 

 ter for cleanHness bestowed upon his species viz : — that of " sweet martin^' 

 by which cognomen it is best known in Northumberland — for ^a less 

 noisome and a more cleanly and spirited little animal I have never beheld. 



