NOTE ON SPIDERS. 

 Lycosa purbeckensis in Northumberland. -In looking- over a number 

 of Spiders collected in 1S97 near Hexham, one Lycosid was found which 

 did not altogether ag-ree in its specific characters with the name given to it, 

 and was thus presumably of some other but allied species. No descriptions 

 of recent Lycosids being' at hand for reference, it was forwarded to 

 Mr. F. P. Smith, of London, who determined it to be L. purbeckensis 

 F.O.P.-Cb. It has since been compared with the figure, etc., given in the 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., series 6, vol. 15, which may be consulted in 

 the Leeds Reference Library, and there can be no doubt of its identity. It 

 is rare and local, and new to the county, though found in Cumberland on 

 the opposite side of the Pennine chain. The example found was a mature 

 female.— Wm. Falconer, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, 12th February 1902. 



NOTES on LINCOLNSHIRE FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Bullfinch Feeding on Sea Buckthorn Seed. — This summer I sent 

 a lot of Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L. ) seed to the north for 

 eoast sand sowing. While I was talking about the matter to a friend, who 

 is a good botanist and ornitholog'ist, I learned that only one bird, the Bull- 

 finch (Pyrrhula europcea Vieill.), is known to feed on the very plentiful seeds 

 of this shrub. Is this the experience of our shore dune naturalists? — 

 E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, 18th January 1902. 



Some Flowering Plants at Woodhall Spa, Line. N. — During a visit 

 to Woodhall Spa, Div. 10, last October, I came across several interesting- 

 plants, and give in the list below all those that are not mentioned in my list 

 of Woodhall Spa Plants ('Naturalist,' August 1900), or in Mr. Melvill's 

 ' Addenda '.;(' Naturalist,' November 1900). 



I again found the Agrimonia about which there was a doubt in my 

 previous paper, so sent a specimen to the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe Peacock, 

 who says it is odorata ; it is a fine plant, and a new record for Lines. 



I also sent Mr. Peacock some curious specimens of Juncus bufoniits, and 

 which he says are the variety viviparus ; this is new too. It was abundant 

 on the edge of a pond near the Bath House, with Scirpus setaceus. 



Ranunculus Flammida var. radicaiis Nolte was fairly plentiful in a ditch 

 on the road to Old Woodhall. I was surprised to see it there, for I had 

 only a week before found it in S. Lines. ; a new record also. 



In a piece of waste ground on the ' Kirkby Lane ' I saw TMaspi arvense, 

 Erysimum cheiranthoides, Silenc noctifl&ra, Lamium ample xicaule, long- 

 corolla form, and Melilotus alba Desr. ; in a stubble-field close by, Erodium 

 cicutarium var. dice rophy Hum and Polygonum aviculare var. rurivagum 

 Jord. ; on the borders of the lane, Myrica Gale, Rhamnus Frangula, Poly- 

 gonum amphibiiim var. terreslre Leers. Lastrcea spinulosa and Geranium 

 molle, flore albo were plentiful. 



I saw Stellaria media var. >ieglecta Weihe on the Horncastle road, and 

 one plant of Scabiosa Succisa , flore albo. 



On the moor near the ' Victoria,' Molinia varia and a few plants of pink 

 flowered Prunella vulgaris ; Linaria Elatine was abundant in a field by 

 Bracken Wood ; and in Reed's Beck, Potamogeton perfoliatus and Myrio- 

 pliyllum spicatum. 



Vinca major was plentiful in a hedg-e on the Stixwould Road. 



Centaurea nigra var. decipiens Thuil. I found within a few yards of the 

 new church ; the spot will soon be built on. 



Onopordon Acanthium was growing as an escape on the road to Kirk- 

 stead (Tattershall), just where the pellucid sewer crosses the road; in the 

 next field, in a marshy spot near the ponds, were a few plants of Triglochin 

 palustre. 



These are all in Woodhall Spa parish. 



On Kirkby Moor I saw Polypodium vulgare ; in a pond near Kirkby-on- 

 Bain village," Chara hispida was abundant.— S. C. Stow, Court Leys, 

 Brandon, Grantham, 19th November 1901. 



1902 April 1. 



