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side, infested with game : the rabbits had nibbled several of tho 

 phints." In this case, however, the brushwood had not been cut; 

 but it was "noticed that it seemed to grow only on spots where a 

 slip of the land occurred, or rather the sliding down of soil from the 

 steep banks," which circumstance no doubt resulted similarly in 

 sunlight reaching the slopes of soil overturned and left bare. The 

 names of the denes and the exact localities, though not withheld, are 

 for obvious reasons suppressed here. My authorities for the state- 

 ments made are, however, unimpeachable ; in neither case is the 

 locality that of the strictly preserved Castle Eden Dene, from which 

 Cypripedium was so long ago recorded, — F. A. Lees, in Report of the 

 Botanical Locality Record Club for 1873. 



In Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 54, you ask a question a propos of Prof. 

 H. Ct. Reichenbach's meaning when he speaks of " a not very civil, 

 but very successful " method adopted in Yorkshire to prevent the ex- 

 tirpation of Cypripedium Calceolus. — I have not noticed any reply to 

 this query, and the bringing forward of the Cypripedium at the 

 present time as a plant not likely to be lost to our flora, reminds me 

 of it. I have little doubt that Prof. R. had in mind a published 

 remark of the late Mr, Joseph Woods, who in describing a visit to 

 Helmsley, says, that a gardener confessed to him having taken up a 

 number of roots of the Cypripedium, and that he threatened the said 

 gardener with an Act of Parliament made expressly to hang him, but 

 that it did not seem to alarm so much as could be wished. Ten years 

 later, when Mr. Borrer was at Helmsley, the same attendant showed 

 him a single weak plant which he stated to be the only one he had 

 found since Mr. "Wood's visit ; and, adds Mr. Borrer, this plant had 

 been shown to a botanist in 1843, who had been permitted to cut off 

 the flowering stem, but mindful of the threat of a hanging Act of 

 Parliament, the root had not been allowed to be disturbed. I quote 

 from a memorandum, so that I do not profess the above wording is 

 exact, but it expresses the substance of the records. — F. M. Webb. 



KoBREsiA CAEiciNA, TFzlld., IN Aegyleshire. — Last summer I 

 found this local sedge on a hill in this county, from which I think it 

 has not been previously recorded. —F. Buchanan White, in Scottish 

 Naturalist. 



Carex B(Enninghauseniana. — We find that a statement referring 

 to Carex Bcenninghauseniana in our note (p. 32) on the Report of the 

 Botanical Record Club has been misunderstood by a few of our 

 readers. In that Report, C. Bcenninghauseniana is recorded as *' Still 

 plentiful in . . . Balls Wood . . . Herts, 1 8 72, '* on the authority of 

 Mr. T. B. Blow. As we had been informed by that gentleman that 

 the plant he there collected turned out on more careful examination 

 to be C. axillaris, we thought it advisable to call attention to the 

 error. Our note was of course not intended to assume that C. 

 Bcenninghauseniana no longer groAVs in the locality where it was first 

 discovered by Mr, Coleman in 1842 — it may or it may not — but that 

 the re-record was founded on an erroneous determination. We believe 



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