Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Middleton, Jan.,West Hartlepool. Snail Eggs.—If C. L. has any watcr-snads in hisaquarium, the aquarium pest he complains of isprobably snail-spawn. I have frequently noticed itin my aquarium ; but I never removed it, as the fishused to feed on it greedily. The mollusc I alludeto is the common pond or water-snail (Limncea stag-nalis); and in support of my theory I quote thefollowing from Woods Natural History :— Theeggs of the pond-snail arc laid in ribbons of transpa-rent gelatinous
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Middleton, Jan.,West Hartlepool. Snail Eggs.—If C. L. has any watcr-snads in hisaquarium, the aquarium pest he complains of isprobably snail-spawn. I have frequently noticed itin my aquarium ; but I never removed it, as the fishused to feed on it greedily. The mollusc I alludeto is the common pond or water-snail (Limncea stag-nalis); and in support of my theory I quote thefollowing from Woods Natural History :— Theeggs of the pond-snail arc laid in ribbons of transpa-rent gelatinous substances. This ribbon doesat first sight rather resemble a slug.—A. J. N. Mac-donald. Winking Marybuds.—Your correspondent S. of the garden marygold as being mentionedas Winking Marybuds by Shakespeare. Again,your correspondent B. thinks the plant alluded to isnot a garden plant, and suggests Ranunculus Ficaria(pilewort). May they not both be reconciled byconcluding it to be the marsh marygold {Caltha pa-lustris), which I have always considered to be theMarybuds of Shakespeare ?—R.
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