DISTRIBUTION OF GOODYERA REPENS 243 



This shows a similar coming south to Pyrola secunda, 

 L., but with far more difficulty as to the status of the 

 plant where found. 



Cumberland, Co. 70. 



"In a Fir plantation near the Eden at Armathwaite, 

 between Penrith and Carlisle," F. A. Lees, in " Rep. Bot. 

 Record Club," for 1879-80 (1880), pp. 59 and 72. 



York, S.E., Co. 61. 



Reported from Houghton Hall Woods, near Market 

 Weighton, as SpirantJies mitumnalis^ but afterwards cor- 

 rected by Mr. Slater to Goodyera.- W. W. Reeves, sp., in 

 no way different from Kincardineshire specimens. 



Norfolk W., Co. 28. 



1. Decoy Wood, Westwick, 3 "one large patch," July 8, 

 i 885, by Miss Southwell. A week after the wood was care- 

 fully searched, but no more could be found. 



2. Neighbourhood of Holt, where it was found in abun- 

 dance by Miss A. M. Barnard, 1890. This locality is about 

 twelve miles " as the crow flies " from Westwick, where it is 

 now (1890) exterminated. 



3. Cavvston Woods, Mr. W. A. Nicholson, sp., 25,7, 1910. 

 " About twenty specimens, with six flowering stems, among 

 Erica cinerea, and rather near to several Scotch Firs, at the 

 edge of a clearing." In the 1890 "Transactions of the 

 Society," the late Mr. Geldart expresses the opinion that it 

 cannot be a wild (i.e. indigenous) species to W. Norfolk. I 

 also expressed this opinion, 4 and Mr. Burrell remarks, 5 " this 

 judgment was a sound one, judged by the information avail- 

 able at the time, but more recent developments may modify 

 it." Mr. Burrell's remarks are too long to quote in full ; 

 but the species has been found among heather and firs over 

 an area of some thirty square miles. 



He wrote to three nurserymen in Dumfries, Elgin, and 

 Kilmarnock, who are directly concerned in the culture of 

 Scotch Firs, and they all agree that they are raised from seeds, 

 which are kept more or less free from weeds, and Goodyera 



1 "Naturalist," 1888, p. 279. 



" "Naturalist," 1888, p. 312. 



3 "Trans. Norf. and Nor. N. Soc.," 1885, 255, and 1890, 329. 



4 "Journ. of Botany," xl. 393. 

 5 " Trans. Norf. and Nor. Soc.," 1910, p. 44. 



