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MyrrJiis odorata^ Scop. Not uncommon about cottages. 

 Bunium flexuosum, With. Frequent in both counties. 

 Clioeropliyllmn temulum, L. Frequent in both counties. 

 C. sylvestre, L. Abundant in both counties. 



Torilis nodosa, Gaert. (C) Common about Bangor, Llandudno, &c. 

 T. Anthriscus. Frequent in both counties. 

 J)aucus Carota, L. Abundant in both counties. 



Conium maculatum, L. (A) Not uncommon ; (C) Bangor, Great 

 Ormshead, &c. 



Smyrnium Olusatrum, L. (A) Gallow's Point, Puffin Island, &c., (C) 

 Tan yr allt Woods, Bangor, Conway Castle, &c. 



(To he continued.) 



The Badger near Pickering. — When on my holidays last August, in 

 the neighbourhood of Pickering, I was interested to learn that the badger 

 was still to be regarded as a native of that part of Yorkshire. I was told 

 that Mr. Marfitt, grocer, of that town, had one on his premises which 

 had been caught in the neighbourhood. I called on him, and he was 

 good enough to show us the animal alive and apparently well. He kept 

 it in an outhouse in an enclosed yard, and would have shown us more of 

 it in the yard if it had not displayed such a very strong objection to 

 leaving the side of the wall, against which it laid very closely- and very 

 determinedly, whilst Mr. Marfitt endeavoured to force it away with a 

 stout stick. It kept up a sort of savage grunt, and bit very hard at the 

 stick. At length he got it partly out, and to stand up so as to afford us a 

 good view of it. Mr. Marfitt had a coUey dog, which he put into the 

 place with it, but the dog beat a hasty retreat with its tail between its legs. 

 He gave us various interesting particulars of the method in which the 

 badgers are captured, and stated that he had had one before this. The 

 badger-hunters usually set off" from Pickering in the evening, the distance 

 I being about seven miles. They arrive at the place shortly before mid- 

 night. In company with a keeper who knows their haunts, the hunters 

 keep very still until the badgers go out to feed ; they then get very 

 quietly up to their burrows, into the mouth of which is inserted a bag 

 with slots across it. The greatest caution has to be observed, or the 

 badgers will not leave their holes, or having left them, will rush back on 

 the slightest uinusual sound, and before the preparations for their capture 

 are completed. All being ready, the dogs which accompany the hunters 

 are sent into the woods, whereupon the badgers rush in hot haste to get 

 ''bagged." I was told by Mr. Marfitt that with their strong claws the 

 badgers can penetrate a long way into the ground in a very short time ; 

 and that it is a most diflicult thing for any dog which may be sent into 

 the holes to dislodge the inmate, as the badger usually makes a sort of 



