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Various Short Notes. 



annual is a native of the fields and hedges in the South of 

 Europe, from Albania through Italy to Spain and central 

 France. Of course, it must have been in the first instance 

 introduced to the Tadcaster district, but this may quite con- 

 ceivably date back to the Roman occupation. The reasons in 

 support of this, as well as the occurrence in the district of 

 Urtica pilulifera, cannot be enlarged upon here ; but even as 

 an ' alien ' it is, I believe, new to England. 



NOTES on FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Plants noted at Y.N.U. Excursion to Coxwold : a Correction.— 



In 'The Naturalist,' Sept. 1902, p. 278, line 4, for Rubus alpinus read Ribes 

 alpiniim, and line 7 from bottom for Primula elatior (Oxlip) read Primula 

 vulgaris x veris. — T. W. Woodhead, Huddersfield, nth September 1902. 



Silverdale Plants. — I was pleased to see in ' The Naturalist' for 

 February a list of the plants of Silverdale, and as I spent a holiday there 

 this summer I carefully took notes of what I saw. I found some plants not 

 mentioned in the list. They may not all be strictly within the area, the 

 boundaries of which I was not perfectly acquainted with, but they are all 

 within what we might term almost speaking distance. 



Medicago sativa I found in 1900, and this year in a corn field near Cove 

 House. 



Tilia parvi folia. Two fine trees at Wood Well. 

 Hippuris vulgaris. Waterslack. 



Parnassia palustris, recorded in the List as rather doubtful, 1 found 

 above the large Tarn in plenty. 



Valeriana officinalis. Waterslack. 



Vinca major. On the rocks at Jenny Brown's Point. An inhabitant 

 told me it had been there to his knowledge for forty years, but no doubt an 

 escape at some time. 



Stachys palustris. Waterslack. 



Teucrium chamcedrys. In a field on the green. 



Samolus valerandi. Near Jenny Brown's Point. 



Lonicera xylosteum is, I regret to see, cut down in the Eaves, also that 

 Serratula tinctoria is gone from the back of the church. 

 But my main object in writing is to correct an error respecting the shrub 

 Coto7ieaster vulgaris {integer rimus) of the list, which is really C. microphylla. 

 I got specimens from the places named, both alike. I am confirmed in 

 what I say by my friend Mr. J. F. Pickard, who has visited Silverdale since 

 I was there, and I send this note, as it would be a pity for any ardent 

 botanist to visit the place in search of C. vulgaris and not find it there. — 

 Wm. Kirkbv, 5, Tanfield Place, Virginia Road, Leeds, 18th Sept. 1902. 



NOTE on LINCOLNSHIRE FUNGI. 

 Geaster fornicatus: a Correction.— In my note, 'Naturalist,' Sep- 

 tember, p. 288, line 4, for ' sporidium ' read ' exoperidium.' — W. Fowler, 

 Liversedge, 3rd September 1902. 



NORTHERN NOTES and NEWS. 



The fine series of eggs of the Great Auk collected by the late Mr. 

 Champley, of Scarborough, which was exhibited to the members of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union on their visit to Scarborough a few years ago, 

 has been acquired by Mr. Rowland Ward, of Piccadilly. 



Naturalist, 



