corkespondence. 
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Valsa aglasostoma, B. and Br. Driifold Lane, Sutton. This rare 
species was determined by Mr. C. B. Plowright. Nov. 
Cucurbitaria laburni, De Not. Sutton, on laburnum sticks. April. 
C. cupularis, Fr. Marston Green, on hazel. May. 
Sphseria aquila, Fr. Sutton ; Water Orton. Feb.—June. 
S. ovina, Pers. Driffold Lane, Sutton. May. 
S. pulvis-pyrius, Pers. Sutton ; Sutton Park, etc. Nov.—Mar. 
S. herbarum, Pers. Common everywhere. Nov.—May. 
S. rubella, Pers. Driffold Lane, Sutton ; on a nettle stem. May. 
S. acuminata. Sow. Solihull; on dead thistle stems. June. 
S. acuta, Moug. Sutton; Harborne; Solihull, etc. On nettle 
stems. Dec.—May. 
S. doliolum, Pers. Solihull; on dead stems of Angelica. 
Sordaria breviseta, Kab. Water Orton ; on cow dung. 
S. fimeti, Pers. Quinton, on dog’s dung. 
S. fimiseda, De N. Sutton Park, on cow dung. 
Sphferella rumicis, Desm. Common; Sutton, 
Green, etc. 
June. 
Sept. 
April. 
April. 
Harborne, Barnt 
May—Aug. 
(To be continued.) 
W. B. Grove, B.A. 
Contspnlieittt. 
Curious site for Book’s Nest. —On the Forest Koad, Nottingham, 
a pair of rooks have selected a curious site for their nest. It is 
placed in the corona to the iron linial of the turret of the Noncon¬ 
formist College on the Forest Boad. There is a small rookery about 
‘200 yards from it,—W. J. Bawson, Nottingham. 
Blue Caps (see p. 141).—Although possibly flowering somewhat 
later than the Scarlet Poppies, the Corn Bluebottle {Centawea Cyanu.^) 
is associated with them in the minds of many. I would suggest that 
this may perhaps be the flower referred to by Clare in the line quoted 
at p. 141 of the “Midland Naturalist.” Certainly nothing in nature 
can be more aptly termed “divinely blue” than this most beautiful 
cornflower—the “Bluet” of the French.—O. V, A., Great Bourtou, 
Oxon, 8th June, 1883. 
Flora of Derbyshire. —The following letter, addressed to one of 
the Hon. Secs, of the Midland Union, was read at the Tamworth 
Meeting on the l‘2th ultimo;—“For some years past I have been 
engaged in collecting materials for a Flora of Derbyshire, and I should 
be very much obliged if you will bring this matter forward at the 
approaching annual meeting of the Midland Union. I am greatly in 
want of kind helpers, especially for the part covered by the Derbyshire 
Coalfield, but shall be thankful for the help of any Botanists in the 
county or in its neighbourhood. My method of working hitherto 
has been this:—The friends who take part in this work furnish me 
with lists of the plants they find and their habitats ; of plants not 
recorded from other parts of the county they furnish me with one or 
two specimens, in return for which they receive from me such plants 
as they may desire, which I may have by me. I don’t think that any 
of my correspondents have in this matter been losers by this, as my 
great wish is to make it as profitable an undertaking to all as may be. 
If you wish for further information I shall be very glad to give it, and 
shall be very much obliged if you will accede to this request; still 
more, if you can secure me efficient helpers.—Bev. W. Hunt Painter, 
1, Park Villas, Knowle Boad, Bristol.” 
