NOTES — ENTOMOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



Carex elongata and C. canescens. Laughton Low Warren. 

 Carex filiformis. Pond near Laughton Warren. 

 Nardus striata. 



Calamagrostis lanceolata. Coningsby Pits. 

 Molinia cserulea. 



Equisetum palustre, with varieties ^ polystachiuin'^ and ^nudum.^ 

 Lastrsea Thelypteris. Boggy wood in Nettleton Glen. Manton 

 Common. 



Lastraea Oreopteris. About Laughton. Howsham. Scotton 

 Common. 



Lastraea spinulosa. Coningsby Pits, Santon Warren, etc. Boothby 



Wood. 

 Blechnum boreale. 



Osmunda regalis. Santon Warren in 1876, but now, I fear, extinct, 



having been dug up and taken away to stock gardens ! 

 Lycopodium clavatum. Scotton Common. 



Lycopodium alpinum, Crosby Warren in 1857. Now almost 

 certainly extinct, a fir-plantation occupying its former habitat. 



Lycopodium inundatum. Damp places on Crosby Warren and 

 Scotton Common. 



Selaginella selaginoides. Manton Common. 



There seems little reason to doubt that Vaccinimn myrtillus and 

 Andromeda polifolia may yet be found in Lincolnshire, but as yet 

 they are unrecorded. 



NOTES— ENTOMOLOG V. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Lincolnshire.— On the 22nd September last, 

 and again on the 29th of the same month, a specimen of S. convolvuli was brought 

 me. Both were alive. One had been found in a field, and the other on the line 

 of railway in Alford, both by persons quite ignorant of entomology. — R. Garfit, 

 Alford, 22nd October, 1887. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Nottinghamshire.— An example of this 

 moth, in tolerable condition, was captured on the 23rd of August last. It was 

 discovered on the ground, close to the base of a post supporting the gate leading 

 into my yard. It is now in my possession. After setting, it measured exactly 

 four inches across the forewings. — W. A. Gain, Tuxford, October 23rd, 1887. 



NOTE— BOTANY. 

 Twiggy Mullein (Verbascum virgatum) at Wetherby.— 



There is now (Sept. 21st, 1887) growing in a large gravel-pit, a single specimen of 

 the above rare plant, with very handsome racemes of flowers and fruits, with its 

 characteristic short fascicled flower-stalks, and purple-haired filaments, and 

 flowering in a curiously intermittent way, i.e., fruit, flowers, flower-buds, then 

 fruit, flowers, flov/er-buds. I have never seen this plant in the gardens here. The 

 pit is dug in a bed of river-gravel (mountain limestone and grit), and the question 

 forces itself to one's mind, Have the seeds of the plant brought centuries ago from 

 the higher reaches of the river been deposited and preserved in the dry gravel, 

 ready to germinate when exposed ? — John Jackson, Wetherby. 



Nov. 1887. 



