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is still abundant and very fine. I saw a specimen growing on 

 the opposite side of a dyke where Senecio pdlustris L. was 

 plentiful ; that measured 6 feet high. 



A station that seems to have dropped out of notice is recorded 

 in Hooker's Fl. Scotica, p. 88 (1821), i.e., ditch at Ardincaple 

 Wood (Dumbartonshire), Hopkirk in Flora Glottiana (1813). 

 This is repeated by Hooker and Arnott, Brit. Fl., ed. 8, p. 181 

 (i860), but not noticed by Mr. Watson. Hennedy, Clydesdale 

 Flora, 75 (1878), remarks, 'This I have not seen.' It seems 

 quite as likely (or more so) to have been correct as the other 

 Scotch stations, but of course needs confirmation, either by old 

 specimens or being re-discovered. 



NOTES on YORKSHIRE PLANTS. 



Scirpus tabernaemontani at Askern, Yorks. S.W.— This plant- 

 hitherto only recorded from ' ponds by the railway, Hook Grange, Hook 

 Moor, near Goole ; H. F. Parsons,' in ' Lees' Flora of West Yorkshire' — is 

 plentiful in the bog - at Askern. The list of sub-maritime plants that still 

 linger in the low lands near Doncaster is very suggestive of the idea that 

 the sea reached much further up the Don Valley in recent geological times 

 than it does now. The following species all grow in one or more stations 

 in the district: — Trifolium fragiferum L., Samolus valerandi L., Plantago 

 coronopus L., Glyceria distans Wahlenb., besides the species named at the 

 head of this note. — H. H. Corbett, Doncaster, 10th August 1901. 



Plant Names near Huddersfield : 'Mother Die,' etc.— I was 



much interested on reading Mr. Booth's note on the local name of ' Mother 

 Die ' given to A?ithriscns sylvestris. I well remember in my younger days, 

 w T hen with other children gathering wild flowers, none of us would pluck the 

 blossoms of the Greater Stitchwort ( Stellaria holostea ) to which we applied 

 the name of ' Mother Die,' our belief being that if the flower was taken into 

 our homes our mother would die. The superstition still lingers, for even 

 now children fight shy of this pretty flower, and elder folk when making 

 a wild bouquet seldom seem to include the blossoms of the Greater Stitch- 

 wort, although it is a common plant in our hedge-rows. I have never heard 

 the name of ' Mother Die ' applied to Anthriscns sylvestris, but the names of 

 Humlock, Hemlock, and Rabbit Meat are quite common appellations here, 

 especially the latter name.- AY. E. L. Wattam, Newsome, Huddersfield, 

 7th August 1 90 1. 



Viola tricolor in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1685.— In the 



recently issued Transactions of the Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Archseol. 

 Soc. , new series, Vol. I., 1901 (sent out to subscribers 24th June), the Bishop 

 of Barrow-in-Furness prints a portion of the MS. Diaries of Bishop Nicolson, 

 the friend of Lawson, and whose list of Cumberland plants was included by 

 Ray in 1695 edition of Camden. On p. 30 Dr. Ware prints the following :-- 

 ' 1685, May 22. Homewards. Flos Trinitctrias wild on ye marshes near 

 Bowes ; and of several colours.' I do not trace who he is following in the 

 name, but the Herba trinitatis of Fuchs' History, 1542, and the Jacea sive 

 Flos Trinitatis of Matthiolus' Commentarii, 1583, is Viola tricolor L. Cannot 

 the Bishop give 'The Naturalist' these plant notes, for they must be worth 

 something? — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, 1st July 1901. 



[We cordially re-echo this suggestion, and should indeed be pleased if 

 the Bishop would favour 'The Naturalist' with such notes. — Ed. Nat.] 



Naturalist, 



