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NATURE NOTES. 
four ( V. arhorea, sylvestris, norvegica or hritannica, and Cy-abro) usually build in 
trees. They are all much alike, except the last species, V. Crabro, the hornet, 
which is more than twice as large as the others, and is reddish-brown and yellow 
instead of black and yellow’. It generally builds in hollow trees, but not unfre- 
quently under the eaves of houses. 
OFFICIAL NOTICE. 
The fund towards clearing off the debt of owing to the lion. Treasurer 
now amounts to £2.\ 14s. 6d. Those who have sent donations since the last 
notice are : Miss T. B. Waterston, Mr. E. R. Stable, Miss Temple, Mrs. Bourne, 
Rev. J. S. Gale, Miss A. E. F. Barlow, Mrs. Bowman, Miss Albright, Mrs. 
Armitage and Miss Blagg. A. J. Western, Sec. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
E. B. H. — We do not insert anonymous communications. 
W. R. — Caper Spurge [Euphorbia Lathyris). 
J. S. G. — Nostoc commttne. 
J. R. S. C. — Mr. W. F. Kirby says : — “ Agrees best with Ashmead’s figure 
of Ceroplastes Jloridensis, but I do not vouch for the accuracy of the name. This 
is a species infesting oranges in Florida, but Coccidce are easily carried from 
country to country, and some of the orange species will also attack orchids.” 
W. B. — The Wood Wasp or Ilorntail {Sirex gigai). 
Miss W. — It is a viviparous form of a Fescue grass, so far as we can judge 
from the specimen. 
E. E. — It is very difficult to preserve the larger fungi satisfactorily. 
R. F. M’C.— Knaggs’s “ Fepidopterist’s Guide” (is): 
F. J. — Not up to our standard. 
Leafleld.. — Yes, it is Dytiscus maiginalis. 
E. W. W. — The verses came too late for insertion. 
Miss M. — British Seaweeds., by S. F. Gray (Lovell Reeve). 
F. C. — (i) Parmelia Borreri\ (2) Eurhynchiuvi pra:loug2im\ (3) Hypuuui 
Patieutice, mixed with No. 2 ; (4) Leucohryum glaucum. 
Jacey. — No doubt it was the Humming-bird Hawk-moth. 
An Erratum.— The obvious though stupid slip by which we wrote 
“Olympus” for “Parnassus” at line 15 of p. 194 has produced the following 
graceful protest from a valued correspondent : — 
“ Why toil w’e up the dizzy mount 
Where dwell the gods of ancient Greece? 
Why have we left the sacred fount 
Of Hippocrene, w'hy left the peace 
Of that Parnassian hill which towers. 
Above us on its lower slopes 
To seek the mount which bears the bowers 
Of gods — it is beyond men’s hopes ! 
The Olympian nods, and why should he. 
Whose lightnings blaze in Nature Notes, 
Not make an effort once to see 
That in his own eye there be motes?” 
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