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these records without personal corroboration, because I have 
found by experience that all such records—even those by first- 
rate botanists— are wholly unreliable, owing to the Common 
(Hybrid) Oxlip (Primula acaulis X veris) having, in the case of 
most of them, been taken for the True Oxlip (P. elatior, Jaeq.). 
Thus Gibson, in his * Flora of Essex’ (p. 248), records the 
latter as * frequent" near Broomfield, the parish in whieh I 
reside, and in which I can assert positively that it does not occur. 
The same may be said of the adjacent parish of Springfield, in 
which Gibson also records its occurrence. Most of Gibsons 
other localities are correct; as, also, are most of those given in 
Babington's ‘Flora of Cambridgeshire. A majority of the 
localities given in Hind's * Flora of Suffolk,' and one of the two 
given in the * Supplement” to Trimmer's * Flora of Norfolk’ are, 
I believe (as more fully stated hereafter) incorrect ; as, also, of 
course, are those given for the plant in the Floras of many other 
Counties in which it certainly does not occur. 
This brings me to the subject of the outlying localities for 
Primula elatior already alluded to. Hind, in his ‘Flora of 
Suffolk,’ records, mainly on the authority of others, the occur- 
rence of the plant at some eight localities in East Suffolk, as 
follows :— 
Bungay (Mr. D. Stock, of Bungay). 
Burgate Wood (Hind). 
Dennington (N. F. Hele). 
Woolverstone (Hind). 
Aldeburgh (N. F. Hele). 
Great Bealings (Rev. E. J. Moor). 
Ashbocking (Miss F. C. Stanford). 
Hemingstone (Rev. T. Brown). 
Every one of these records relates, I believe, to the Hybrid 
Oxlip; and, in this view, local botanists whom I have consul 
agree with me. 
Hind also records a number of localities which lie within the 
Oxlip-Area as defined by me, and which, therefore, I accept. l 
Finally, he records Primula elatior from some nine localities 
lying around, and within a mile or two of, Honington, where he 
himself resided. They and the authorities on which he records 
them are as follows :— 
Fakenham Wood (Hind). 
