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Iii Bot. Gaz. i. 319 (1849), Henfrey makes the following 

 remarks on the Middlesex locality : — " C. bifolia did undoubtedly 

 grow at Caen Wood in 1840, for we possess a specimen gathered 

 there at that period by Mr. R. S. Hill, in company with whom and 

 Dr- F. J. Farr, we ourselves saw it growing. But it must be 

 understood that Caen Wood is the name given to Lord Mansfield's 

 grounds, long since enclosed and strictly private. None of our 

 party had any idea but that the plant was naturalized. Although 

 occurring plentifully in point of absolute number, it was confined 

 to spots on which the plants grew thickly, as if spreading from a 

 centre ; and in all probability the plant was an outcast from a 

 garden." The plant has since been collected in the locality by 

 other botanists, as will be seen from the list of specimens given 

 at the end of this paper. 



County Records. 



I now proceed to consider the conditions under which the 

 plant has been found in other localities. The records are arranged 

 in chronological order : — 



Lancashire. — In Gerard's Herbal, 330 (1597), we have the 

 earliest record of Maianthemum as an English plant. He gives a 

 good figure of it, and says : — " Monophyllon groweth in Lanca- 

 shire, in Dingley wood, sixe miles from Preston, in Aundernesse 

 and in Harwood neere to Blackeburn, likewise. It fiowreth in 

 May and the fruite is ripe in September." 



Bedfordshire. — In the early thirties Mr. Edwards saw the 

 plant growing under fir-trees in Apsley Wood, Bedfordshire, but 

 it does not seem to have been found there since, although the 

 locality has been often visited by other botanists. Watson (Cyb. 

 Brit. ii. 465) thought that Edwards had possibly mistaken some 

 other plant for the Maianthemum both in Apsley Wood and at 

 Hampstead, more especially as he wrote on the recollection of 

 some years, but we know now that there was no doubt about 

 where Edwards found the plant. 



Northumberland. — Mr. R. Embleton, in Proc. Berwicksh. 

 Nat. Club, ii. 20 (1843), writes :— " The Rev. Osd Head, of 

 Howick, discovered it growing rather sparingly under the shade 

 of a wide-spreading beech, in one of the woods at Howick." 

 Mr, Borrer reports (op. cit. ii. 432 (1845) ) that the plant had been 

 extirpated at Howick. Watson (Cyb. Brit. ii. 465) observes that 

 the Howick locality was close to Earl Grey's garden. I was 

 unaware that the plant had been re- discovered in the county until 

 the other day, when I found, at Kew, a specimen collected in 

 Northumberland in June 1891. The specimen is accompanied by 

 a letter from the Rev. T. R. Archer Hind, of Newton Abbot, who 

 states that the plant was found growing in considerable quantity 

 in a wild wood near the moors ; a more detailed description of the 

 place is wisely withheld. Many interesting plants, such as stone- 

 bramble, Vaccinia, oak and beech ferns, and Pyrola, were found 

 in the same neighbourhood. Prof. D. Oliver states (Journ. Bot. 



