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point could only be decided by examination of botanical literature." 

 To this literature I have not access." 



Sahain Mere adds Bumex maritimus and Ranunculus hede- 

 raccus, the former being usually dwarfed but often two feet high. 

 Scoulton Mere contains, with many of the above, Cicuta virosa, 

 Peucedanum palustrc, Nymphoides peltatum Eendle & Britten, 

 and Calamagrostis canescens. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett tells me he has a specimen of Lastrcea 

 cristata from Scoulton, dated 1883, but I could not find it there in 

 1910 or 1911. Senecio palustris has disappeared since it was 

 recorded from here by Smith. This year I obtained Liparis 

 Loeselii from the Wissey basin, a new river system for this plant. 



In a few places the chalk comes to the surface, notably at 

 Saham, Ashill, and Foulden, and the following chalk species 

 result : — 



Thalictrum minus L. Gentiana Amarella L. 



Hippocrcpis comosa L. Spiranthes spiralis Koch. 



Asperula cynancliica L. Orchis pyramidalis L. 



Campanula glomerata L. Ophrys apifera Huds. 



Two of the plants mentioned under woodland species are of 

 course typical chalk plants, Aceras anthropophora and Ophrys 

 muse if era. 



Trifolium subterraneum and Thymus Chamcedrys occur on the 

 sandy hillocks at Stow Bedon and at one of the Wretham Meres. 

 The former has not previously been recorded for the district. 



The following list contains the more uncommon of the re- 

 maining plants : — 



Fumaria parviflora Lam. Medicago minima Desv. 



Iberis amara L. Melilotus officinalis Lam. 



Isatis tinctoriah. Prunus Cerasus L. 



Silcne conica L. Spircea Filipendula L. 



S. anglica L. Tillcea muscosa L. 



S. noctiflora L. Sedum Telephium L. 



Claytonia perfoliata Donn. S. anglicwn Huds. 



Geranium pyrcnaicum Burrn. fil. Sison Amomum. 



O, rotundifolium L. Sambucus Ebulus L. 



G. columbinum L. Anthemis arvensis L. 



O. lucidum L. A. nobilis L. 



Genista anglica L. Crepis biennis L. 



Medicago sylvestris Fries. Hypocharis glabra L. 



M. fa lea t a L. Campanula rapunculoides L. 



* [This form, far from being unique or even rare, has frequently attracted 

 the attention of field botanists, and is indeed by no means of uncommon 

 occurrence — we have met with it several times in various places during the last 

 forty years. It is well described by Bromfield in his Flora Vectensis (p. 34, 

 I860), quoted by Masters (Vegetable Teratology, p. 181, 1869), and is mentioned 

 by Syme (Eng. Uot. ed. 3, i. 159). The fact that the equally common 

 "phenomenon " connected with the production of new plants from the leaves 

 attracted special attraction at a meeting of the Linnean Society last year (see 

 Journ. liot. 1911, 238) seems to show that our ecologists have much to learn 

 with regard to our common British plants.— Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



