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VOTES on FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Cotyledon umbilicus in I urness. I diseo\ ored this pi. mi al New- 

 barns, Barrowrin-Furness, in iSji, and while recent lv at Colton, in the 

 Purness Pells, I found it growing on the rocks near the old mill. Many of 

 the peltate leaves were 01 large size (a and ; s inches in diameter). One 

 specimen measured ; inches in diameter, and the depression in tho centre 

 w.is three-quarters of an inch. Hakim u li.w rHORPE, C la vert on, Prospect 

 Road, Hai row-in-l-'uiiH'ss, sth December 1900. 



Fi jr Tree Bearing in the Open. In the garden al the Warp Parm, 

 Bottesford Moors, N.W. Lincolnshire, stands a Fig tree (F/'cus rarica). 

 This tree w,^ planted by my grandfather about i8ao. Several times during 

 my life it has produced fruil thai came to full maturity. My first record is 

 1808, the nexl 1887, then in the years iS^j, is<r,. 1 s« >7« iSi)S, iSqc). The 

 fruil each time came to full perfection and was of beautiful flavour. The 

 tree is sheltered by a wall and a chimney, but for tho last fiye and twenty 

 years no fire iias been lighted in the grate with whieh t In* Hue is connected. 

 Max Peagock, The Manor, Bottesfordi Lincolnshire, 7th July 1900. 



Mistletoe at Sheffield of Bid. On the strength of an holograph 

 memorandum b) Dr. Leonard Plukenet, in the British Museum copy of 

 Ray's 'Catalogus Plantarum Anglise' | i^t ed. 1(1701, of whieh I have recently 

 found (orre^found, perhaps) a transcription in one of certain MSS. notebooks 

 of the Rev. W. W. Newbould's in my possession ; it is well worth outpoint 

 that 230 years ago Viscum album grew 'Sheffieldiam adeat,' that is nigh to 



or approaching the city of cutlery. It is also another slum* added to the 

 Cairn of a conclusion; evidence pointing how completely the Hondas of 

 districts can alter in course of time ; of how possible, nay certain, ii is that 

 the woodland of Went worth or Beausheafwas once rich in such arborescence 

 .is Mistletoe and Wild Service-tree, and on the Rivelin moorways such 

 herborescence as Salix herbacea or- Hypericum medium ; now alike, all 

 things of th»' Past, their places filled by other plants and other peripatetics 

 iserve them, who seeing only with their own eyes are hard of belief. — 

 F. Arnold LEES, Leeds, 16th January 1901. 



Autumn in Lakeland 1 19001. It was difficult to resisl becoming 

 enthusiastic over the autumnal pageantry as displayed by the Lakeland 

 trees this year. I do not remember to have ever seen a parallel to it. Il 

 seemed to me that, given the conditions, the effect was as hrilliant as it 

 could well possibly be, at least in some particular instances. For example, 

 there- was a middle-aged Rowan tree \Pyrus aucuparia) growing on the 

 extreme edge of a bank overhanging Deepdale Heck. A few of its leaves 

 were on 21st October of a slightly brownish-yellow tint, but all the rest were 

 of a deep, almost pure, crimson. I have never seen a finer autumnal display 

 by any Rosacean. On the other hand, the leaves of the Wild Cherry 

 iPrunus avium), which, in most autumns, exhibit a tolerably fair livery, 

 were this year decidedly browner than usual, so far at least as I had 

 opportunities for the observance of them. There were two other features, 

 however, which were eminently noteworthy. First, I noticed some few 

 leaves of the Alder ( Alnus glutinosa), which were glossed over, as it were, 

 with a faint purplish red of the same shade as their petioles exhibit towards 

 the close of the season. Secondly, and even more remarkable, I observed 

 an occasional Hazel {Corylus avellana) leaf which had evidently put forth 

 strenuous efforts (to speak metaphorically) that they might show off some- 

 thing fine; they were tinted of a red, only slightly brownish, which was 

 about as bright a decoration as their chromogen could possibly allow. The 

 brilliancy of the yellows was about equal to the ordinary occasion in the 

 case of the Wych Elm (Ulmns montana), but certain specimens of the 

 Common Elm (Ulmus campestris) hung out a golden drapery surpassingly 

 dazzling. One or two Spanish Chestnuts {Castanea vulgaris) were festooned 

 with such an intermingling of gold, brown, and green, as, I should think, is 

 rarely witnessed in these dales.— P. Q. Keegan, Patterdale, Westmorland, 

 1 2th November 1900. 



Naturalist, 



