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been accidentally introduced into this country, very probably^ 

 I think, with Jamaica bananas, which during the past several 

 years have been sent here in such larg'e quantities. — Geo. T. 

 PoRRiTT, Huddersfield, nth October 1904. 



Rare Insects at Doncaster. — During the last few days 

 I have had brought to me three insects pertaining to three 

 orders, and all of sufficient rarity in Yorkshire to be worthy of 

 record. They are — Coleoptera, Monohammus sutor \ Lepidoptera, 

 Zeuzera cBseuli \ and Hymenoptera, Sirex juvencus. All were 

 captured within the borough of Doncaster. — H. H. Corbett, 

 Doncaster, 22nd July 1904. 







FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 



Alopecurus fulvus in South Lines. — While botanizing at 

 Denton Reservoir (Div. 15), on 30th August, we had the good 

 fortune to take Alopecurus fulvus Sm. {A. oequalis Sobol.) in the 

 ditch which feeds the reservoir ; river gravel. This is a first 

 record for S. Lines. 53. It has been recorded once for N. Lines. 

 54 — Isle of Axholme, Div. i. — S. C. Stow, Grantham, loth 

 September 1904. 



Malaxis paludosa Sw. in Westmorland. — This interesting 

 and rare orchidaceous plant was found in fair quantity on ist 

 August, close to the mountain road between Little Langdale 

 and Blea Tarn. The habitat was a stony ' syke ' amongst 

 gelatinous fresh-water algse — and not sphagnum as is usually 

 stated. This appears to be a new locality for the plant in the 

 Lake District. — J. Fraser Robinsox, Hull, 20th August 1904. 



Lastrwa Thelypteris Presl. in East Yorkshire. — On an 

 excursion of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club in 

 the neighbourhood of Driffield on the 13th August, the Rev. 

 F. H. Wood, B.D., rector of Bainton, pointed out a new 

 locality in East Yorkshire for the Marsh Buckler Fern. This 

 fast-disappearing fern occurred in profusion in a boggy situation 

 near Kelleythorpe. This is the second station where the plant 

 still grows in East Yorkshire. — J. Eraser Robinson, Hull, 20th 

 August 1904. 



North Lincolnshire Botany. — At the L.N.U. meeting at 

 Spilsby, 28th July, over 200 species and varieties of plants were 

 noted. The following are the best. On Spilsby Sandstone : — 

 Potentilla argetitea, Salvia verhenaca, Ballota nigra var. flore 

 albo, Poa conipressa , Aspleniuni Adiantum-uigrum, A. Tricho- 

 manes, Chenopodium albiun var. viridescens. On Boulder 



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