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Flowering Plants. 



Doubleday in 'The Entomologist,' Vol. 5, pp. 29 and 30, and 

 was taken by Mr. Harding- at Deal on 17th October 1867 ; this 

 specimen is now in the Doubleday collection in Bethnal Green 

 Museum. The second example was recorded by the late Dr. F. 

 Buchanan White, F.L.S., in 'The Scottish Naturalist,' Vol. I., 

 pp. 267 and 268, and was taken by Mr. Tait at Inverurie, Aber- 

 deen, in September 1871. These, with Mr. Lofthouse's capture 

 at Middlesbrough on 26th September last, are the only three 

 known occurrences of the species in Britain, and it will be noted 

 that the localities are as widely apart as they could well be. 

 Probably all the British captures were immigrants, although the 

 species is regarded even on the Continent as one of the rarest of 

 the Noctuse, and the only very few specimens which seem to 

 have occurred there were taken near Berlin, and in Hungary 

 and Russia. Mr. Lofthouse's specimen has been figured and 

 coloured to appear in Volume IX., now approaching completion, 

 of Barrett's ' Lepidoptera of the British Islands ' ; and there is 

 also an uncoloured figure of the moth, which is a large and 

 variable species, in the late Edward Newman's ' Insect Hunter's 

 Year Book ' for 1869. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 



East Riding Plant-records. — Besides the list of additions to 

 the Flora of the East Riding which appears in the lately issued 

 Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, 

 two more fairh^ notable records must now be added, nameh', 

 Valeriana 7nikanii, in marshy ground near Driffield, June 1903, 

 and Carex Goodenovii var. juncella, Skipwith Common, July 

 1903. Both records are due to Mr. Chas. Waterfall, of Hull, 

 and have been confirmed by Mr. A. Bennett, F.L.S. — J. F. 

 Robinson, Hull. 



Navelwort in North Derbyshire. — On nth October last, 

 while fungus hunting near Grindleford, in company with Mr. C. 

 Bradshaw and Mr. E. Snelgrove, we found the Navelwort 

 {Cotyledon nmbilicus L.) growing in an old wall behind the 

 historic Padley Chapel (now used as farm buildings !). In 

 Mr. Linton's ' Flora of Derbyshire ' the plant is only recorded 

 from five localities, most of these being old records. The 

 author writes me that it is one of the plants which seems to be 

 becoming rarer. — Thos. Gibbs, 197, Cemetery Road, Sheffield, 

 13 December 1903. 



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