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CORRESPONDENCE 
DIGITALIS. 
D. purpurea, Linn. Foxglove. 
Native: On hedge banks, roadsides, ruins, heath lands, railway 
banks, and in woods. Common and local. June, July. 
“ It is plentiful about Rugby,” Baxter ii., 1834. 
Frequent in the sandy soils of the Tame basin, but very local in 
the calcareous soils of the Avon basin. 
ANTIRRHINUM. 
A. majus, Linn. Common Snapdragon or Calf snout. 
Alien or casual: On old ruins, walls, and railway banks. Rare. 
July to September. 
I. On rocky banks of railway near Arley Station, possibly planted. 
Railway bank between Hampton and Berkswell. 
II. Salford, Part., i., 288; “On an old wall at the bottom of the 
garden, Lawford Hall, near Rugby,” Baxter, iii.; old town 
wall, Coventry, Kirk., Herb. Perry; Stoneleigh Abbey, Kirk, 
Herb. Perry; Westgate, Warwick! Y.andB.; Railway banks, 
near Coventry. 
A. Orontium, Linn. Corn Snapdragon. 
Colonist: In cultivated land. Very rare. July, August. 
II. Railway cutting, Myton, Herb. Perry; a weed in the Rectory 
garden, Sbipston-on-Stour, Newb. 
(To be continued.) 
Fungi from near Birmingham.— I have lately had the pleasure of 
adding the following rare species to the Flora of this district:— 
Agaricus nitidus, Fr., remarkable for the dense angular warts on the 
pileus, and its beautifully white and shining stem; Ag. inopus, Fr.; 
Ag. pullatus, agreeing exactly with plate 237 of Cooke’s “ Illustrations,” 
noticeable for the strong contrast between the pure white gills and the 
almost black pileus; all from Coleshill Pool. Boletus alutarius, Fr., 
from Hints Wood, a species belonging to that section of the Boleti in 
which the spores have a rosy hue; and Hypomyces Baryanus, Tub, 
from Solihull, parasitic on ’the gills of Nyctalis parasitica, which is 
itself parasitic on Russula adusta. —W. B. Grove, B.A. 
Macropis labiata. —This rare and beautiful bee has not been 
exterminated from this locality (as some rushers into print imagined 
it would be when I recorded my captures last year). I have seen both 
males and females—some at rest upon flowers, principally those of 
thistles, whilst others were flying around enjoying the gloriously hot 
weather of last month. I have not yet discovered their home, as it is 
a difficult matter following these bees on the wing, especially when 
they fly over the canal. On August 7th I had the good fortune to 
capture a magnificent hermaphrodite, every part—mandible, antennae, 
wings, legs, and half the sexual organ—on the right side being those of 
the male, whilst the corresponding parts on the left were those of the 
female—the beautiful yellow face of the male contrasting with the 
black half of the female. I had the pleasure of exhibiting this unique 
specimen at the Entomological Society of London. Instances of 
hermaphroditism among the Hymenoptera are very rare; in fact, so 
far as I have been able to ascertain, there is but one on record—that 
of Anthophora acervorum, figured in Smith’s “ Bees of Great Britain,” 
plate 5, figs. 2 and 2a. In this specimen the left side is male, the right 
female.— Fred. Enock, Woking Station, 
