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NOTE— ORNITHOLOGY. 



Peregrine Falcon in Notts.— On 26th December 1899 a fine bird of 

 this species {Falco peregrimis Tunstall), a female I should imagine, was 

 caught in a gin on the Winkburn estate, Southwell, Notts. From tip to tip 

 the wings were fully 3 feet 8 inches. — E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, Cadney, 

 Brigg, 8th February 1900. 



NOTES — BOTANY. 



Iris faetidissima in Lincolnshire.— The Iris found by me in Careby 

 (not Corby) Wood in 1883 was, I have no doubt, I. faetidissima Linn. I did 

 not see more than one plant, and that one was not in flower, but 



1. It was in a dry part of the wood. 



2. It had deep green leaves. 



3. It had not the same facies as that of the plant recorded by 



Mr. Burton as occurring* at Huttoft. 



4. It was submitted to Mr. F. Arnold Lees, and he said it was 



'certainly faetidissima.' 

 — W. Fowler, Liversedge Vicarage, 3rd March 1900. 



A Belated Blossom: the Derbyshire Dryas. — Most unexpectedly, 

 the recent reading by me of a not-new book adds a new item to the flora 

 of Peakshire, which, right or wrong, being in reputable print must be taken 

 account of by the floralist. The record, too, is for a Roseid, and raises 

 afresh the instructive question of phytic removal and replacement. The 

 book is Trevor-Battye's ' Ice-bound on Kolguev ' — a drift and lime-clay 

 island off the embouchment of the White Sea, upon the peat-bedded 

 surface of which island Mr. Battye, as a voluntary kind of castaway, 

 picked, and for pastime sketched, several interesting Yorkshire, Lincoln- 

 shire, and Derby species of wild flower, during - the three summer months 

 of 1894. If there be an error it is a quite inexplicable one, as Mr. Battye is 

 a botanist, and knows the Derbyshire hill-land well enough to write at page 

 405 of his Kolguev book : — 



'Dryas octopetala L. The white dryas of the Derbyshire hills was 

 common on the Gobista Mountains and the Pugrinoy, flowering in the 

 beginning of August.' 



That the oak-leaved Avens should occur on rock ledges, not necessarily 

 limestone, at below 1,600 feet, the average height of the mural scarves of 

 the Eyam and Hathersage lead-mine area, is by no means unlikely, seeing 

 that it occurs below that level on the tabular ' clouders ' above Arncliffe. 

 The district has been little worked, owing to its inaccessibility from Glossop 

 and Hayfield, the side on which the Kinderscout and Edale edges have been 

 mostly attacked in the past by the Manchester botanists. Of course it is 

 against the presumption that no one but Mr. Battye has ever noticed it in 

 the county, but the matter must be looked into. Mr. Painter's 'Flora' is not 

 an exhaustive one, and within a score of years three or four very rare or 

 local species of plants like Carex ornithopoda , Silene nutans, etc., have been 

 discovered. Of course, too, Dryas may have been there, and be not now, 

 any longer. It must be, or have been, a relic, no ' substitution' theory could 

 account for a reversion to aboriginal conditions. But — Dryas! there are not 

 many square yards of its wire matting on the Yorkshire 'clouder,' and even 

 less may be left on the plates about the rill-heads of Derwent or Otterdale. 

 It will be on the eastern side of the Pennine watershed, most probably on 

 the mountain-limestone, but I do not know Derby at all well botanically. 

 Arenaria gothica should occur also ! Here, then, is a botanic 'Derby' — a new 

 race for a classic badge, to be run next month, and which may be won by 

 almost anyone with good legs and sharp eyes. — F. Arnold Lees, Leeds, 

 7th March 1900. 



Naturalist, 



