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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Polypodium phegopteris (Page 513). I have seen this near 

 Bradford, but do not know the name of the locality. 



Ophiog"lossum vulgatum L. (Page 515). At Malham Cove 

 in quantity. 



Lycopodium inundatum L. (Page 517). Is I believe more 

 common than is usually supposed, but is often hidden by 

 surrounding vegetation. I know one locality which has been 

 on record for over forty years. 



Note. — To Mr. Christie's positive impression (which, however, cannot rank a& 

 accepted fact) as to the occurrence of Thalictrmti alpinuin ' on the hills behind 

 Settle,' I might fairly reply in the very words used with regard to my record of 

 Nep]irodiu})i iCJinilii/n in Settle Woods, that the district is ' an unlikely one,' being 

 ' far too dry/ but my record rests on the imimpeachable testimony of Edward 

 Newman, an authority on Ferns ; whilst as against Mr. Christie's — a comparative 

 stranger's — opinion, there is the fact that the Alpine Rue is a plant of wet boggy 

 mountain-. and rill-sides; that bogs over the fissured limestone area of Settle are ill 

 developed, and that not one of the many lynx-eyed botanists, from Ray, Lister, 

 Blackstone, and Dickson downwards, to Tatham, Hovvson, and others of latter 

 days, have ever observed the alpine Thalictnini thereabout. Mr. Christie's lack 

 of doubt, and attempted justification for not having made a precise note of where 

 he saw it, cannot, under the circumsiances, be allowed to have any real weight. 

 I am unwillingly constrained to add that the remarks upon the probability of 

 AspleniuDi septejitrioiialc being ultimately found 'on the south side of Ingleborough 

 if there are any trap dykes' there, must come under the same imponderable 

 category, Mr. Christie being clearly unaware that there is no irap or l^asaltic rock 

 anywhere in West York. — F. A. Lees. 



Duplicated Generic Names. — As a supplement to the list given on pp. 157-8, 

 the following instances of generic names duplicated either in the Animal or 

 Vegetable kingdoms may be given, and doubtless research would add many 

 others: — Gaihis, in Pisces and Mollusca (iJentaliidrej ; Argiope. in Brachiopoda and 

 Araneida ; Troglodytes, in Primates and Aves ; Diplotaxis, in Phaenogamia and 

 Coleoptera (Melolonthidce) ; Liparis, in Lepidoptera and Orchide?e ; Microphysa, 

 in Mollusca (Helicidae) and Heteroptera ; Oncidiiim, in Mollusca and Orchideoe ; 

 Patitla, in Mollusca and Lepidoptera ; and Corydah's, in Neuroptera and Phseno- 

 gamia. Li such cases, unless a synonym can be brought forward for use, I should 

 be disposed to alter the termination or otherwise amend the later name, instead of 

 proposing an entirely new one. — T. D. A. Cockerell, West Cliff, Custer Co., 

 Colorado, June i6th, 1888. 



Phyllodoce in Annelida and Ph^enogamia is another duplication. — F. A. Lees. 



Lincolnshire Natural History. — Co-operation in collecting information 

 respecting the Marine Mollusca of Lincolnshire is desired. Lists and 

 specimens may be forwarded to the care of Mr. H. WaL[JS Kew, 19, Stonenest 

 Street. Tollington Park, London, N. 



NO TE— MAMMALIA . 

 Capture of a Seal in the Aire at Rawcliffe. — A ^>hort time ago a large 

 .Seal made its appearance in the Aire at Rawcliffe, having come up the Ouse. It 

 was first seen passing through Hook Bridge. After rounding Howden Dyke, it 

 was lost sight of, but reappeared in passing Boothferry, and was followed from 

 Airmyn to Rawcliffe by a crowd of people on the banks. At Rawcliffe it was 

 shot, and it afterwards drifted with the tide towards Howden Dyke Sands, where 

 it stranded. It was found to be a large dog seal, measuring six feet from nostrils 

 to tail. It was skinned by some of the villagers, and the skin had no defect but 

 the gunshot wound. — T. Bunker, Goole, 24th March, 1888. 



Naturaiist, 



