76 Peacock: Line. Naturalists at Somercotes and Saltfieetby . 



Limnanthes Douglasii. Alnus g-lutinosa. 



Lamium ampiexicaule, which is Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae. 



generally found as a railway Orchis incarnata. 



ballast casual in this county. Ophioglossum vulgatum. 



Parietaria officinalis. 



An unusually good list tor the season and soils. 



Mr. Mason, too, was indefatigable in collecting Mosses, and 

 this is his list. But the best thing was not included, Hypnum 

 Wilsoni Schimp., but I find it recorded in 'The Journal of 

 Botany,' 1899, p. 360, on the authority of Mr. J. A. Wheldon. 

 The others are : — 



Ditrichum flexicaule. Brachythecium rutabulum. 



Ceratodon purpurens. Brachythecium velutinum. 



Tortula. muralis. Hypnum ruparium. 



Tortula ruraliformis. Hypnum aduncum. 



Barbula tophacea. Hypnum falcatum. 



Bryum pendulum. Hypnum cupressiforme. 



Bryum lacustre. Hypnum cordifolium. 



Bryum caespiticium. Hypnum cuspidatum. 



Bryum capillare. Hylocomium squarrosum. 



Climacium dendroides. Hylocomium triquetrum. 



Camptothecium lutescens. 



The Rev. W. Fowler noted the following : — 



Lichens. Fungus. 

 Cladonia pyxidata. Puccinia caricis. Teleutospores on 



Cladonia rang-iferina. various Carices (July to April). 



^Ecidiospores on Urtica dioica 

 (May and June). 



Ornithology. — This list of birds observed is the last piece ot 

 scientific work Mr. Cordeaux did. It runs as follows: — Without 

 counting the more common and generally distributed, the birds 

 seen included about 25 species. On the Somercotes rabbit 

 warrens and sandhills south of Saltfieetby, four species which 

 nest underground have their home. These are the Sand-Martin, 

 excavating' holes in the steep sides of the dune, often to a con- 

 siderable depth ; the other three are the Wheatear, Stockdove, 

 and Sheld-Duck, which utilise rabbit burrows for nesting 

 purposes. The former are particularly plentiful on the warrens. 

 On the fifties and foreshore south of the Haven we observed 

 a Heron, some Curlew, Ringed-Plover, Dunlin in flocks, the 

 black underparts of their summer plumage being very con- 

 spicuous in flight. Redshank, and four Reeves ; Lapwings were 

 also plentiful. In Theddlethorpe Marsh ten to twenty pair of 

 Redshank were nesting, and probably the same number of 

 Lapwing — these two have increased since the passing of the 

 Bird Protection Acts, and the former in a very marked degree. 



Naturalist, 



