BIBLIOGRAPHY: CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, 1 885. 



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E. M. Holmes. Northumberland. 

 Algae britannicae rariores exsiccatae [Calothrix Crustacea Thur., Cladophora 

 arctiuscula Crn., Codiohim longipes Foslie, Euthora cristata J.Ag., Phyllitis 

 fascia Kiitz., and Sphacelaria cccspitula Lyngb., all from Berwick-on-Tweecl, 

 are cited, with details]. Grevillea, June 1885, xiii, 109-110. 

 [Henry Hyde.] Cheshire. 

 [Excursion-notes for 1884 ; notes on cryptogams observed at meeting at Ros- 

 therne, May 3rd]. Rep. Manch. Sci. Stud. Assoc., for 1884 [publ. January 

 1885], p. 20. 



G. Massee. Yorkshire. 

 New British micro-fungi \Didymium hypnophilum sp. nov., Stilbum flexuosum 



sp. nov., Helminthosporhim pumilum sp. nov., H. stemphylioides Corda, 

 Arthrobotrys rosea sp. nov., Gonatobotrys simplex Corda, Corepthoris paradox a 

 Corda, Ascobohis saccharinus B. & C, Corepthoris epimyces sp. nov., Agaricus 

 {Mycena) pitrtis P., and Mucor fusiger Link, all from Scarborough]. Journ. 

 R. Micr. Soc, October 1885, v, 757-760. 



W. Phillips and Charles B. Plowright. Yorkshire. 

 New and Bare British Fungi [Peziza {Dasyscypha) scrupulosa Karst., Scar- 

 borough]. Grevillea, March 1885, xiii, 73-74. 



Charles B. Plowright. Lincolnshire. 

 On the Life-History of certain British Heteraecismal Uredines (the Ranunculi 

 ^Ecidia and Puccinia Schoeleriana). [Puccinia Schceleriana n. sp. , is recorded 

 as occurring as sEciditim jacobcece on Senecio jacobaa at Skegness, in the spring 

 of 1882, and in the Puccinia stage on Carex armaria L.] Quart. Journ. of 

 Micr. Sci., January 1885, xxv > I 5 I " I 7 2 - 



George Roberts. Yorkshire. 

 Topography and Natural History of Lofthouse and its neighbourhood [etc.]. 

 Vol. II. Leeds: printed for the Author. 1885 [pp. viii + 258]. \Russula 

 virescens (p. 109) ; Boletus edulis and Helvetia crispa (p. 138)]. 



[Thomas] Rogers. S. Lancashire. 



[Moss new to Lancashire ; A mblystegium porphyrrhizum L. , collected on the 

 sandhills at Southport in 1875, ^ ts ^ rst occurrence in England]. Proc Manch. 

 Lit. and Phil. Soc, February nth, 1884, xxiii, 76. 



H. Stolterfoth. Cheshire. 

 Surface Dredging on the Dee [notes on numerous species of diatoms obtained 



in- three dredgings]. Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Sci., No. 3, 1885, pp. 93-97. 

 W. Barwell Turner. Yorkshire, Westmoreland, &c. 



On some new and rare Desmids {Onychonema nordsledtiana sp. nov., Strensall 

 Common, N.E.Yorks. ; Micrasterias crux-melitensis Ralfs, var. nov. superfliia, 

 near Bowness, Windermere ; and M. brachyptera Lundell, var. nov. bispinata, 

 same place]. Journ. R. Micr. Soc, December 1885, v, 933-940 ; and plates 

 xv and xvi. 



NOTES— ORNITHOLOG Y. 



Hawks mobbed by Small birds.— I have noticed that Sparrow Hawks 

 are more subject to being mobbed by small birds than Kestrels. This, no doubt, 

 is partly owing to the fact that Sparrow Hawks fly nearer to the ground than 

 Kestrels, but may also be accounted by the fact Kestrels do not prey on small 

 birds as Sparrow Hawks do. Water Wagtails seem to have an especial antipathy 

 to Hawks. One day last year I flew a Merlin at a Wagtail, and in a moment the 

 'pursuer' became the 'pursued,' for, from all sides, Wagtails congregated and 

 chased the Merlin backwards and forwards, much to the amusement of myself and 

 some friends. My Merlin at length took refuge in a tree, and. I think, was well 

 pleased when I called it down to lure. Last Saturday I saw a Sparrow Hawk 

 mobbed by Wagtails in the most persistent manner ; they flew close to its head, 

 and seemed not to have the least fear of it. — H. T. Archer, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 nth Decem ber, 1885. 

 June 1886. 



