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Notes on Plants. 



Sphagnum subsecundum Nees. Norwood. 

 Sphagnum subsecundum var. contortum. Norwood and 

 Adel. 



Sphagnum acutifolium Ehr. Norwood. 

 Sphagnum cuspidatum Ehr. Norwood and Adel. 



Two Probably Erroneous Moss Records for Derbyshire.— 



(1) Hypninn Sendtneri Schimp. was inserted in Whitehead's North 

 Derbyshire Mosses, but was afterwards erased in Mr. Whitehead's private 

 copy, because he found that the specimen on which he relied had been 

 wrongly named. The record in Mr. Painter's List is copied from White- 

 head's List. The record in Mr. Wheldon's paper in the March ' Naturalist ' 

 is in part Whitehead's, but in addition gives 4 Carr Meadow (57) Holt,' and, 

 unless this last be found to be reliable, the record for Derbyshire must be 

 cancelled. 



(2) Trichostomiim indinatum Dixon {Barb id a inclinata Schwg.) is recorded 

 in Mr. Painter's List of Derbyshire Mosses 4 Staddon Heights, Holmes, 1867, 

 in Braithwaite. ' Mr. Holmes' station is near Plymouth, and, so far as 

 I know, this species has not yet been found in Derbyshire. — T. Barker, 

 Whaley Bridge, 14th April 1902. 



East Yorkshire Plant Notes. — I do not know the neighbourhood of 

 Scarborough at all well, and only send you these notes in case you think 

 them of any value. My sister showed me on the 16th specimens of 

 Equisetum maximum and Stellaria Holostea from near Fyling Dales, Robin 

 Hood's Bay. The petals of the latter plant were not cut and divided in the 

 usual way. Otherwise the specimen was normal. — E. Adrian Woodruffe- 

 Peacock, 19th May 1902. 



Acer campestre in North Yorkshire in 1702. — Bishop Nicolson in 

 his diary, 23rd May 1702 (see Trans. Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Archaeol. 

 Soc. , New Series, Vol. 2, 1902, p. 156), writes that he saw 4 Acer minus 

 abundantly in the hedges.' Apparently the locality was somewhere about 

 what he calls 'Thornton Bridge,' for in the next paragraph he goes on to 

 say 'That night to York.' Mr. J. G. Baker, in the second edition of his 

 'North Yorkshire' (Trans. Yorks. Nat. Union, Pt. 15, p. 276), has 4 Area 

 general . . . Frequent in woods and hedges,' etc. — S. L. Petty, 

 Ulverston, 20th May 1902. 



Ivy Berries and Blackbirds.— Miss M. Fowler writing from Liphook, 

 Hampshire, says : — ' Look at the enclosed seeds. I am much interested in 

 them. This is their history. The Blackbirds especially, but also the 

 Thrushes, are just now eating great quantities of Ivy {Hedera Helix) berries. 

 They swallow the berry whole and then later on throw up the seeds, nicely 

 cleaned from the pulp. The garden is covered with the enclosed seeds. 

 Here, however, is the strange part of the observation. The natural colour 

 of the seed skin is white, with a shade of cream, turning- slig-htly more 

 yellow in drying — whereas nearly all the thrown-np seeds have the skin of 

 this pretty red.' I should call them rose-pink unless they have faded. 

 ' I suppose the digestive juices of the birds act on the skin of the seed and 

 produce this change of colour. No book I have g-oes further than saying 

 that the birds eat the ivy berries during the late winter.' I should very 

 much like to know whether anyone has observed this change of colour in 

 •The Naturalist's' district of England. — E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, 

 Cadney, Brigg, 19th May 1902. 



NOTE on DERBYSHIRE MOSSES. 



NOTES on YORKSHIRE PLANTS. 



Naturalist, 



