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white bleached stalk lying flat on the ground, when pulled up comes 
away out of the socket with the “ flax-seed ” sticking into the side of 
the end, having been under the very lowest leaf at the root, others 
having been considerably up the stalk, and one being evidently 
hatched this season, there being only a thin skin left. 
July 25th. Mr. J. Blythe Myles wrote from Pitcany, Bervie, Kincar¬ 
dineshire, with specimens accompanying, as follows :—“ I enclose a 
few Barley-stalks, which I fear have suffered from the attack of the 
Hessian Fly. The stalks have the peculiar bend, and there are above 
the knots of the stem and under the sheathing something similar to 
small “ flax-seeds,” but longer in proportion to the breadth than what 
they are. There are a very great number of stalks like that among 
my Barley.” 
July 26th. Mr. Andrew Spence wrote me from Mountboy, near 
Montrose, N.B., with samples of the pest which he had that day 
discovered in a field of Barley :—“ The field was manured with stable- 
yard manure last year to the turnip crop, but there was no foreign 
straw used. I notice it in a field of Wheat, but not to such an extent 
as in the Barley.” Mr. Spence further communicated to Mr. D. 
Taylor that a field of Wheat belonging to him was slightly injured, but 
his Barley was terribly damaged. 
Mr. D. Taylor w T rote :—“ I have found it on a good many farms in 
the Carse, and on highly cultivated land too.” 
July 29th. Specimens of attack both on Wheat and Barley were 
forwarded from Upper Tulloes, near Forfar, by Mr. David Osier, with 
the note that the attack had appeared on his farm:—“In a 25 acre 
field of most luxuriant Barley we have found it throughout all the 
field, but worst in some thin spots.” A specimen was enclosed “ from 
a very fine field of Wheat.” 
July 29tli. Mr. James Bodger, writing from the Estate Office, 
Mertoun, St. Boswell’s (Roxburghshire), forwarded me a few stalks of 
Barley unmistakably attacked by the Hessian Fly, and mentioned that 
he found that “ many fields on our estate here were unmistakably 
attacked. One field of Barley is especially bad ; and on the headland 
of the field this morning I had no trouble in gathering an armful in a 
very short time. This is the first attacked field that I have heard of 
in the Borders.” 
Observations of Attack- in Scotland during August, 1887. 
The following note, recording wide-spread attack but with little 
damage resulting, was forwarded, on August 18tli, by Mr. H. Lindsay 
Carnegie from Kinbletlnnont, Arbroath, Forfar, N.B., with specimens 
accompanying: — 
