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hope to see the species hunting- among-st some of the old trees 

 about my house. The tits have begun already. ^ — S. L. Petty, 

 Ulverston, 12th February 1904. 



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FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Hyoscyamus niger at West Ay ton. — In May 1896 an old 

 wall bounding my garden at West Ayton was pulled down to 

 its foundations, and some dry, dusty soil, full of bones, was 

 thrown out from beneath the foundations. I saved a little of 

 this soil and watched it, and in a few weeks a number of plants 

 of the Common Henbane appeared, a plant I have not seen 

 nearer Ayton than Flamborough Head, some twenty miles aw^ay. 

 In the following- summer the plants bloomed profusely, and were 

 left to ripen their seed. Strang-e to say, not a single seedling 

 has ever appeared. I believe the seeds from which the plants 

 sprung must have been buried under the wall at least a hundred 

 years, perhaps much longer. That no seedlings grew up as the 

 progeny of these plants makes one wonder what conditions 

 interfered with the growth of seeds that can retain their vitality 

 for a century under a wall. — W. C. He v. 



Juncus tenuis at Bootle. — On the 29th of September 1903 

 I came across Junciis tenuis Willd. in my churchyard (St. 

 Mary's, Bootle). The plant has been verified by Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett. It is the first record for the county. It is a strange 

 plant to find in a town churchyard in the midst of a dense 

 population. The soil is suitable for it, being moist and sandy, and 

 it can hardly be an introduced plant. — Rev. W. Wright Mason, 

 Vicar of St. Mary's, Bootle, 27th January, 1904. 







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Fungi in Potridings Wood, South Yorkshire. — On 18th 

 October last Mr. W. N. Cheesman and myself paid a visit to 

 Potridings Wood near Conisbgrough, with the object of again 

 turning up Chlorospora Eyrei Mass., the great find of the 1901 

 foray. However, although we spent upwards of an hour in 

 searching on the exact spot where that and so many other 

 interesting fungi were then found, not a sign of the green- 

 spored species was to be seen. The larger fungi are often 

 strangely inconstant in their appearances. We may have been 

 a little too early or too late, or the season (although so favour- 



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