NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS R A P I S T R U M PERENNE ( L . ) All. A new vice-county record. Southwest of How Hill near an old pit by the crossroads of A l l and B1112, four miles east of Barton Mills, two plants found, August, 1968. Confirmed by Monks Wood Experimental Station. B.S.B.I. atlas records indicate only fourteen other finds of this species since 1900.
T h i s is one of three species in Central Europe, Mediterranean region and West Asia recorded by C . T . W , as weeds of arable and waste land. Rapistrum rugosum and R. hispanicum are already on record for East Suffolk. P. J. O. TRIST, Bury St. E d m u n d s .
G R E Y SQUIRRELS IN C H A N T R Y PARK. Owing to an error in transcription I was erroneously quoted as reporting S. carolinensis in Christchurch Park (Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 14, 134): this should have read Chantry Park.
C. W. PIERCE, Needham Market.
M O L E IN HOUSE. In September, 1968, a mole ( T a l p a europaea) found its way down two steps into the back room of my cottage. It was unable to climb up again unaided so I lifted it up and released it in my garden.
Miss BROWTON, Walberswick.
P I G M Y S H R E W AND SQUIRRELS AT H Ä R T E S T . A shrew spent over a week in the house here during October. It was seen running about in several of the rooms before it was finally caught by the tail in a trap set for something eise. Lord Cranbrook has identified it as a pigmy shrew (Sorex minutus). T h i s is the first recorded example from the parish of Härtest. We also had our first grey squirrel in the garden here during the spring, followed by a red squirrel—the first for many years—in September.
W . H . PAYN, H ä r t e s t .
C O M M O N SEALS IN THE O R W E L L . During the first half of September there were a n u m b e r of common seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Orwell: on one occasion I counted seven and think that there may have been more.
MRS. BRUCE-JONES, Orwell Park, Nacton.