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locality, and I have therefore purposely refrained from describing 

 its whereabouts in detail. 



Lincolnshire. — The Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock sends 

 me the following interesting note: — " Maianthemum bifolium was 

 first discovered in Lincolnshire at Turnby in 1895 by Miss 

 Rawnsley. It had certainly been there for seventy years. It is 

 an open oak wood on rather peaty soil. The rock is old river 

 gravel. It is a plant of the Hyp?ium peats. The old river gravel 

 is about one-third Lincolnshire limestone. M. bifolium is found 

 with us in Turnby Wood only. I think it is a late-comer like Iris 

 spuria. We know that it has been on the estuarine alluvium a 

 hundred years, yet it was only discovered by the late B. M. 

 Burton in 1894. If I remember rightly, it requires limestone 

 water, half shade, full shelter, and fair moisture. In my termino- 

 logy it is a 'local areal.' By means unknown to us it has gained 

 a position in which it can survive and spread for a certain local 

 area. Vicia sylvatica is a local areal and native. Galanthus is a 

 local areal and alien : but I fancy Maianthemum does not belong 

 to a list with it ; you can safely put it with V. sylvatica for the 

 present, along with CorydaUs claviculata." 



Durham. — In the late summer of 1896 Prof. D. Oliver found 

 the May Lily in Durham, and records its occurrence in Journ. Bot. 

 1896, 4bl. He says: — "I came upon a large patch of the plant — 

 say twenty to thirty feet in extent — in a plantation on a steepish 

 bank near the Derwent under Hunstanworth, on the Durham side 

 of the river. It is just the habitat for it as I remember the plant 

 in Norway, so far as I can judge. The trees about are spruce, 

 larch, oak, birch ; the general undergrowth of the plantation 

 Luzula sylvatica, Oxalis, Geranium sylvaticiun, with male, shield, 

 and oak ferns. The deciduous trees of the plantation not imme- 

 diately near, besides the above, are sycamore, beech, and mountain 

 ash — no trace of gardener's work, as Vinca, rhododendron, and 

 such like. I do not see why it should not be a genuine station. 

 My friend Mr. Howse, of Newcastle Museum, informs me that a 

 station for the plant near Blanchland — I think probably the place 

 in which I found it — is known to the Bev. Mr. Dunn of that 

 village." 



Oxfordshire. — Some years ago Mr. Druce w 7 as shown a 

 specimen of Maianthemum which was said to have been gathered 

 by a young man in Thame Park, in a hedgerow between Thame 

 and Wheatley, but though Mr. Druce has carefully searched the 

 locality many times since, he has never been able to rind it there. 



The plant is a native of the temperate regions of the northern 

 hemisphere and is found throughout Europe with the exception of 

 the Mediterranean region ; its Continental distribution is entirely 

 in favour of its being considered a native species in the South of 

 England. Nyman gives its distribution as England, North, 

 Central and West France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzer- 

 land, N. Italy, Austro-Hungary, Slavonia, Moldavia, Croatia, 

 Bosnia, and Russia. In Belgium it is found in the provinces of 



