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Potentilla Norvegica L. (the weed now so common from Kirkstall to Snaitli, by 

 canals) ; Erythrcea capitata Willd. (as a sub-species of E. Centaurium, the 

 anomalous insertion of its stamens suggesting its being ' a heteroclite form ' only) ; 

 /uncus tenuis Willd. (Herefordshire) ; Naias marina L. (the Norfolk broads) ; 

 Carex ligerica Gay (a slender form of arenaria, occurring inland as well as on the 

 coast, with female flowers at the top of the spike) ; Carex irinervis Degl. (eastern 

 coast); Carex frigida Allioni (Aberdeen — 'a rare instance of an Alpine Scotch 

 plant not being Scandinavian'); A nt ho x ant hum Puelii Lecoq. et Lamotte (an 

 introduction with foreign grass-seed, now rapidly diffusing itself) ; Agrostis nigra 

 With.; Glyceria declinata Brebiss. ; and Lycopoditcm compla^iatum L., type, accepted 

 as having occurred in Gloucester and Worcester — now extinct on Hartlebury 

 Common — with our common L. alpinuvi given as a sub-species of it. 



We miss only any mention of Naias granmiea Del, and Carices pelia O. F. 

 Lang, and limula Fr. Centaurea Jacea L. is given only in the list of excluded 

 species, yet with the remark whicti seems somewhat inconsistent, of ' found in 

 Sussex, probably indigenous.' Other exclusions among species usually or 

 recently claimed as British, are Lavatera sylvestris, Malva borealis (Goole, Preston, 

 and many other places), Hieracium pratense Fr., Crepis nict^ensis'Ba.lb. (Harrogate, 

 for many years), and Foa sudetica Hoenke., all of which hold their ground, we 

 believe, although not indigenous integers in our flora. Euphorbia pUosa L., by 

 some inadvertence, has a place both in the body of the work and in the list of 

 excluded species; whilst Carex ustulata Wahl., kept in by Babington, is here 

 relegated to the same olla podrida, the author apparently not being aware that the very 

 unduly-discounted George Don is not the sole authority. Specimens undoubtedly 

 gathered on Ben Lawers within about forty-two years, by the late Surgeon Newnham, 

 are in more than one herbarium ; and the writer found one amongst a number of 

 other carices sent him to be named by F. C. King, of Preston, gathered on the 

 same hill within five years, unrecognised at the time, the collector being a com- 

 parative tyro. We are sorry to see the Bedfordshire ' casual ' — Medicago lappacea 

 Lam. — find a place as an indigenous variety of M. denticulata, itself in inland 

 localities rarely more than an impermanent introduction with wool or grain. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



We are making arrangements for preparing the annual Bibliographical 

 Summary of records and papers relating to the natural history and physical 

 features of the ten northern counties of England, which is to be one of the 

 distinctive features of our Journal. In doing this we hope to enlist the co- 

 operation of our readers in general, and more particularly should we be obliged if 

 the authors of papers or records would favour us with copies or notices of them. 



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In this connection. Professor G. A. Lebour has laid us and our readers under 

 further obligation to him by generously undertaking to furnish the titles (with a 

 brief notice of the gist of the contents of each) of papers relating to the geology 

 of the counties of Northumberland and Durham. 



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The fourteenth annual meeting of the Wakefield Naturalists' and Philosophical 

 Society was held on the 3rd of September. The annual report showed that the 

 society was making steady progress, although the attendance at the meetings was 

 of a fluctuating character. Various additions to the recorded fauna of the Wake- 

 field district, and important gifts of specimens for the projected local museum, were 

 announced, after which reference was made to the great losses which the society 

 had sustained by the deaths of their President (Mr. Joseph Wainwright), and of 

 Mr. C. F. Tootal. After the adoption of the report, the officers were elected as 

 follows : — President, Mr. M. E. Naylor ; Vice-presidents, Rev. A. Chalmers, M.A., 

 and Messrs. J. Spurling, J. L. Chaphn, and G. G. lanson ; Treasurer, Mr. A. 

 Lupton ; Librarian, Mr. H. Emmett ; Financial Secretary, Mr. G. Ramsden ; 

 Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. B. Wrigglesworth ; Committee, Messrs. Rushforth, Fallas, 

 Shaw, Garnett, Willis, Wilcock, Harrison, Stephenson, Binks, Toms, Chapman, 

 and Keighley. The President and the Rev. A. Chalmers were appointed to 

 represent the society on the General Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



Naturalist, 



