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Field Notes, 



Britten, J., and Holland, R., 'Diet. Eng-. Pkmt-Names ' (1879),, 



Part I., pp. 212-3. 

 De Crespigny, 'New London Flora' (1877). 



Gremli, a., 'Flora of Switzerland' (trans, from 5th ed. by L. W. 



Paitson, 1889), pp. 330-2. 

 Grimm, J., 'Teutonic Mythology' (trans. J. S. Stallybrass, 1883), 



Vol. III., p. 1213. 

 Hooker, J. D., 'Student's Flora' (3rd ed., 1884), p. 338. 

 Loudon, ' Ency. of Gardening-' (1898), p. 850. 



Pratt, Anne, ' Flowering Plants ' (no date imprinted, but ' Diet. Nat. 



Biog-.' g-ives 1855), Vol. IV., p. 272. 

 Prior, B. C. A., 'Pop. Names of British Plants' (ist ed., 1S63, 2nd, 



1870), quoted by Britten, and by Syme and Sowerby. 

 Rhind, W., 'Hist. Veg. Kingdom' (Rev. ed., 1874), pp. 303-4. 

 Syme, Sowerby, and Lankester, ' Botany ' (3rd ed., 1868), VIII., p. 25. 

 Watson, H. C., ' Cybele Britannica' (1849), II., p. 320. 

 Watson, H. C, ' Topog. Botany' (2nd ed., 1883). 

 * The Naturalist ' — passim. 

 'Science Gossip' (1870), pp. 211, 234, 238. 

 ' New Oxford Dictionary,' ' Eng-. Dialect Dictionary,' etc. 



FIELD NOTES. 



ARACHNIDA. 



Obisium muscorum at Maidenweli, near Louth. — On 



2ist Aug-ust, when searching for mollusca under pieces of wood, 

 etc., in a dry ditch, by the roadside between Haugham and 

 Ruckland, I found a single example of the Pseudo-Scorpion — 

 Obisiiun niuscoruvi — ^which has been submitted to Mr. H. Wallis 

 Kew, F.Z.S., London, who kindly verified its identification. — 

 C. S. Carter, Louth, 30th September 1904. 



'Book Scorpions' at Haugham, near Louth. — On 



28th August I was searching under pieces of timber in an old cart 

 shed at Haugham for false Scorpions, and was surprised to find 

 the ' Book Scorpions ' 'yC he iridium imiseorwii) in such numbers 

 that I failed to keep count how many I caught. As their move- 

 ments are not so rapid as the Chelifer latyeillii and Chthoniiis 

 rayi it was not difficult to catch them ; in fact, immediately they 

 were touched they mimicked death. In splitting open some 

 very much decayed wood I found them inside. A number were 

 sent to Mr. H. Wallis Kew, F.Z. S., London, who kindly 

 verified their identification. At Mr. Kew's suggestion I made a 

 few notes regarding the shed. Its size was about 20 feet x 14 

 feet, the open side facing the west. The floor was chalk over- 



