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recent record of any of them appears to exist, although it is possible 

 that some are still to be found. Abbot's list for the Potton neigh- 

 bourhood includes : — 



fDianthus deltoides L. Mont ia font ana L. Hypericum Inimi- 

 fusum L. ; H.pulcJirum L. ; S. elodeslt. Qeranium sanguineum L. 

 Trifolium ochroleucon Huds. ; T. scahriun L. Galium uligino^um L. 

 Solidago virgaurea L. Jasione montana L. fVaccinium Oxy- 

 coccos L. i Erica Tetralix L. Hottonia palustris L. Vinca 

 minor L. ^TJtricularia minor L. flfalaxis paludosa Sw. (as 

 Ophrys paludosa). Juncus hulhosns L. fUJiyncJiospora alba Yahl. 

 (as Schoenus albus). Carex divulsa Stokes ; C. leporina L. C. ros- 

 tra ta Stokes. 



Those marked f are noted by Mr. Saunders as probably extinct. 

 Any confirmation of Abbot's observations in this district would be a 

 welcome contribution to the Flora of the county. A few plants are 

 noted as " common " by Abbot, which do not appear to be now 

 common in the Ivel district : — 



Lathyrus silvestris, JPimpinella major^ Serratula tinctoria^ 

 Cnicus eriophorus. 



The following plants are noted as *' rare " by Abbot : — 

 Arahis Thaliana, Ilex Aqnifolium, ^^Trifolium hyhridum, Sium 

 erectum, Linaria minor, *L. Cymbalaria, Almis rotundifolia. 



These may all be said now to have a much more extended distri- 

 bution. 



Mr. R. Morse's record of Seseli Libanotis possibh^ adds another 

 county for its distribution, and confirms Mr. Saunders's expectation 

 that it might be found. Although not strictly relevant to the 

 subject of the present paper, I may here say that in 1912 I brought 

 home from Arbury Banks, Herts, a well-known station for Seseli, 

 seed gathered from fine plants three to four feet high, and scattered, 

 them on an isolated balk in the middle of arable land near Little 

 Almshoe, St. Ippolyts, Herts. Until last year I had not visited the 

 spot to see if this experiment in naturalization (some, I fear, will 

 say an undesirable one) had succeeded; 1 found fifteen flourishing 

 plants, tall like their ancestors, and very different from those of the 

 sheep-depastured down on which Mr. Morse found them in Beds, 

 where they have a hard struggle to exist at all. 



The following list was drawn up at the end of 1918 : so far as 

 Beds efforts are concerned, the present year has been a blank to 

 me botanically, as I have not had time to make any expeditions. 

 The only exception was a fortnight in West Norfolk in July which 

 I spent with a cousin at Wallington, near Downham Market. He 

 kindly motored me about, and I spent my time over a number of 

 small " fens " which lay within a distance of 15 miles on the west 

 side of the county. They differ both from the deep fens of the great 

 level, and from the broads, and are more properl}^ small bogs in 

 depressions between slightly higher ground, in the drainage basins of 

 ■the Wissey and the Nar. 1 spent my time chiefly over sedges, but 

 partly also over the distribution of forms of Marsh Orchis. In two, 

 Foulden Common and Marham Fen, O. incarnata was predominant. 

 In Beechamwell Fen, Caldecote Fen, Oxborougli Fen, Shouldham, 



