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NOTE— MAMMALIA. 



Bat Flying by Day.— A Bat, presumably a Pipistrelle, flew slowly 

 past me while sitting- in bright sunshine at 8 a.m. on the nth May 1900, in 

 the Arboretum at Lincoln, and within two yards, so that I had a good 

 sight of it. — J. Eardley Mason, Lincoln, 17th June 1900. 



Diptera taken at Bottesford, Lincolnshire. — The following; species 

 have been taken by me on or about 21st May 1900, and named by the 

 Rev. A. Thornley : — Empis tesselata, Chilosia albitarsis , Chrysomyia polita. 

 — Max Peacock, Bottesford, 12th July 1900. 



Rhagium bifasciatum at Lincoln. — Among a few Coleoptera recently 

 submitted by me to the Rev. Canon Fowler for identification is a specimen 

 of Rhagium bifasciatum, taken from under the bark of a dead Pin us 

 austriaca in June 1898, in the Lincoln Arboretum, by Gentel Smith, one of 

 the gardeners. — J. Eardley Mason, Lincoln, 30th June 1900. 



Spergularia rubra near Sheffield. — This plant is particularly fine 

 and abundant for a considerable distance along the Manchester Road, in 

 the neighbourhood of Bell Hagg, near Sheffield. It grows at the base of 

 the rougb stone wall on the north side of the road, and has now been in 

 flower for a month. — A. E. Bradley, Leeds, 4th July 1900. 



Chelidonium majus at 750 feet in Upper Wharf edale. — Yesterday 

 I found two plants of the above-named flower near the river in Arncliffe. 

 I have constantly visited the same spot for nineteen years, but I have never 

 ■before seen the larger Celandine in this locality. This is the first record of 

 it in Upper Wharfedale. Mr. F. Arnold Lees fixes the extreme limit of its 

 range at 600 feet, and his station for it in the basin of the Wharfe is at 

 Boston Spa, more than thirty miles from here. — W. A. Shuffrey, Arncliffe 

 Vicarage, 21st July 1900. 



Caraway -seed Kex in West Lancaster.— On Whit-Monday, in the 

 course of a ramble inland from Morecambe, avoidant of the not pierless 

 holiday crowd, along Outermoss Lane off the Euston Road to the rig-hit and 

 south in the direction of White Lunds ; on both banks of a diked lane, white 

 with the blossom of Ranunculus floribundus , heterophyllus , and sub?nersus', I 

 noted many clumps of Carum Carut* in flower and young fruit. It is an 

 alien, of course, but seemed well-established. With it was some Lepidium 

 Draba* presumably likewise ballast brought, for the new Heysham branch 

 line of the Midland Railway crosses the line near where it grew most plenti- 

 fully. An alien grass, Bromus arvensis,* was also seen. What interested 

 me most, because I had not noted it before, however, was that the Blister- 

 wort (Ranunculus sceleratus) by one water-slype having to grow up 

 through water had (as in the case of Sium latifolium) been compelled by 

 the environing exigency of its situation to produce palmi-partite floating- 

 leaves on long stalks ! Some of these leaves were quite submerged ; others 

 lay water-lily-like on the stagnant surface, their towering for bloom 

 retarded; for normal specimens in the earth bank were in early' flower, not 

 having had to await the falling of the water-level. The fact shows how 

 nearly related is the yellow shining--leaved Blisterwort to the Batrachium 

 section of Ranunculus. I was also glad to see that the wet rocky steep of 

 Heysham Head on the sea-side of the ruins still supports Osmunda regalis, 

 uneradicated because of the inaccessibility, to most people, of the place 

 where it grows; whilst the pretty white English Stonecrop (Sedum anglicum) 

 adorns the rocks in the vicinity. — F. Arnold Lees, Leeds, nth June 1900. 



NOTE— DIPTERA. 



NO TE— COLEOPTERA. 



NOTES— FLOWERING PLANTS. 



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