108 THE NATURALIST. 



Greenshank, &c. On the 19th of June, Mr, J. Browne shot a female 

 Greenshank, Totanus glottis, on Skoulton Mere. I am lately informed that 

 a pair of Spoonhills, Platalea leucorodia, in mature plumage, and a very old 

 example, a male, of the White Stork, Ciconia alba, were killed on Breydon 

 Water, Great Yarmouth, during the middle of June last. A Bernicle Goose 

 was shot at Keymerstone on June 6th. On June 14th a splendid adult 

 male Bean Goose, A7iser segetum, was killed at Beeston Begis, near Cromer, 



Norwich, July 2Sth 1865. 



01^ THLASPI ALPESTRE, &c. 



By Jno. Windsor, F.L.S., F.RC.S., &c. 



On the subject of Thlaspi alpestre, I have in the Naturalist on two 

 former occasions offered a few remarks, and to promote or establish a more 

 correct acquaintance with the forms of this plant, as they occur in our own 

 country, I am now induced to submit briefly the following additions to what 

 has been there stated. 



On the 6th, 7th, and 8th of this month (July 1865), accompanied by 

 my relative, Mr. John E"eedham, I made, after a very long absence from the 

 district, a short excursion to Malham, Gordale, Malham Tarn, and over the 

 hills o: moor to Settle. 



On this occasion I found nothing in addition, (except an abundance of 

 Potamogeton prcelongus washed on the margin of Malham Tarn,) to what I had 

 often noticed before, long ago, when I was a resident at Settle; and some of those 

 plants, owing I suppose to the greater number of botanical visitors 

 than formerly, had become rarer or altogether absent. Perhaps the greater 

 exclusiveness in the present day of the possessors of land, in guarding 

 their property by a variety of defences, so different to what prevailed 

 formerly, and so unwelcome to the roaming botanist, may unintentionally 

 have a tendency to preserve some of the old localities of our rarer 

 plants, otherwise likely to be too frequently invaded, and often des- 

 poiled of their botanical attractions. In walking over the hills between 

 Malham Tarn and Settle, in its old habitat, an abundance of Thlaspi 

 aljoestre, or that which in later times has been called (after Jordan) occita- 

 nicum, was met with, accompanied as it very frequently is, with Arenaria 

 verna, and as I had seen the latter at Matlock about a month previously as- 

 sociated with the Thlaspi growing there. 



