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Beacon Course has changed somewhat, it having become grass- 

 grown in many parts where firm turf was previously found. The 

 last published record is that in Top. Bot. ii. — " Ar. Bennett, 1876." 

 About twenty years ago it was discovered (I think by Mr. R. B. 

 Smart) in another station some miles away. This was in the 

 vicinity of the Fleam Dyke, and, from the nature of the surrounding 

 country, a rather inaccessible locality. Examination of the ground 

 in 1894-5 forced me to the belief that extension of cultivation must 

 have destroyed the habitat. I know nothing concerning the Top. 

 Bot. (Wardale's) Norfolk record ; but the plant still occurs in 

 W. Suffolk, where I saw it in 1895. — F. scutellata L. 1. Between 

 Babraham and Stapleford, 1890 ; and 5. Quy Hall, by the lake, 

 1896; 1. H. Burkill.— V. Tourneforiii C. Gmel. 3. Grantchester. 

 4.''' Moor Barns, abundant. 



Melamjjyrum cristatimi L. 1. Covered acres in Borley Wood, 

 1894. 3. Frequent in copses and hedgerows about the Old North 

 Road near Kingston Wood, in thickets about Caldecot near Hard wick 

 Wood, &c. ; like Primula elatior Jacq., it is characteristic of the 

 wooded tracts on the boulder clay in the W. and S.E. — M. prate7ise 

 L. is quite replaced by the more showy species. There is no speci- 

 men in Herb. Bab. from White Wood, Gamlingay, from which 

 Prof. Henslow and Mr. Wanton recorded it; and it seems to be 

 extinct in both of Ray's localities. 



Orohanche major L. has not been seen in the county for many 

 years. The complete reclamation of Gamlingay Heath has probably 

 destroyed it in that station. — 0. elatior Sutt. 1. Mr. I. H. Burkill 

 showed it to me on the rail-banks E. of Dullingham ; Furze Hills, 

 Hildersham. 5.* Devil's Ditch near Reche, 1893. — 0. minor Sm. 

 5. Dry ground, edge of Chippenham Fen. 



Utricularia vulgaris L. 5. Chippenham Fen. — U. minor L. 5. 

 Wicken Poors' Fen ; I. H. Burkill. 



Pinguicula vulgaris L. 2. Still on Sawston Moor ; A. Shrubbs. 

 5. Chippenham Fen, sparingly, 1893. Now gone from the other 

 localities, except perhaps Bottisham Fen. 



Verbena officinalis L. 1. By the Fleam Dyke. 2. Hauxton ; 

 Sawston Moor. 3. Lane between Trumpington and the river ; 

 Harston. 4. Near King's Hedges. 



Nejjeta Cataria L. 1. Roadside between Shelford and Trumping- 

 ton, 1895. Little-trees Hill and other places on the Gogmagogs. 

 Roadside near Six-mile-bottom Station, and a mile S. near Lark's 

 Hall. 2. Sawston Moor ; and roadside near Sawston ; I. H. Burkill. 

 4. Lane W. of Milton. 5. Plentiful by the Newmarket Road be- 

 tween Barnwell and Quy ; by the Thetford Road within two miles 

 of Newmarket. This is rather frequent in S.E. and E. Cambs. 



Stachys Betonica Benth. 1. Borley Wood. Local in Cambs, 

 and unrecorded from the northern half of the county. 



Lamium maculatum L. 3.''' Near Newnham in 1891, now de- 

 stroyed ; I. H. Burkill. 



Teucrium Scordium L. This is extinct in all the localities 

 recorded in Dist. 4. Such marshy places as still remain by the 

 Histon Road and near King's Hedges are very limited in extent, 



