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Field Note . 
Cenangium cerasi. On dead 
branch of cherry laurel. 
Phyllosticta lappee. On burdock. 
Phoma auricaria. 
Diplcdia taxi. 
Asteroma rosea. 
Dinemasporium graminum. On 
dead grass. 
t Oospora candidate t, On damp 
rush-bottom chair in school. 
■} Ramularia niveci. On leaves of 
Caltha palustris. 
j pratensis. On leaves of 
Ramex acetosa. 
f plantaginea. On leaves of 
Plant ago lance at a. 
t Ramularia primula e. On leaves 
of Primula vulgaris. 
urticae. On nettle leaves. 
f Verticillium buxi. On dying 
leaves of box- tree. 
Periconia nigrella. On dead grass- 
leaves. 
t Macrosporium brassicae. On rot- 
ting cabbage-stalk. 
Isaria arachnophila. On dead 
spider. 
Fusariunt brassicae. On rotting 
cabbage-stalk. 
Physarum virescens. 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
The Red = Flowered * Morning Glory.’ — Mr. Mosley’s 
pink-hued Colne Bank bine-weed (vide p. 400, November 
issue) is probably the American race, incarnata of Loudon’s 
Encyclopaedia, No. 2295, b. page 140, which is more correctly 
C. americanus Sims, vas. fraterniflorns Mackenzie and Bush 
(Gray, p. 671). This in lack of sight of specimen, is almost 
certainly the same thing as grows at Mirfield, where there has 
long been a large colony upon the rough Calder bank just above 
the Bridge. It was known to Lee for many years. I think it 
is not, there, intermingled with the cordate-leaved white race, 
dubbed ‘ native ’ too loosely, although rampant now in some 
95 county-areas out of Britain’s 112. The rose form has more 
hastate-angled leaves, is more or less pubescent, and has the 
peduncles and leaf stalks shorter, ‘ wing-angled ’ and with a 
curiously different twist — very much in evidence, this last, 
where the vine has to grapple low soft herbage, as at Mirfield 
where the ‘ yards ’ of the milns (through the hides or fleeces 
imported, it came there, no doubt) abut on the river bank. 
But neither the withershinstral twine, nor the halberd-angled 
contour of the leaves are stable ‘characters.’ In the view of 
morphology they are manoeuvral in their nature — an adaptation 
to the compulsions of circumstance. Where the vine can climb 
trees, the flower stalks lengthen out. and the leaves ‘grow’ 
out in an ampler way. 4 Situation, vicissitude often explains 
form. Mr. Mosley’s Colne bank colony may be an out-throw 
from gardens, in which it is grown by unaware amateurs some- 
times, usually to their ultimate disgust, since its ‘ devils-gut ’ 
roots go ‘ farther’ and seldom ‘ fare worse’ than those of any 
other arbourer. Its associates will generally show a botanist 
its origin. — F. A. Lees. 
Naturalist. 
