2 Hurst, The Range of Diotis candidissiina. 



Kinf^ found it very sparingly at Mudeford, near Christ- 

 church, in September, 1879. This station is recorded in 

 Linton's Flora of BournevioutJi, but Mr. Henry Groves 

 informs me that, on going to the locality a few years later, 

 he could find no trace of it. Marshall and Hanbury's 

 Flora of Kent, and Hinde's Flora of Suffolk, give it as 

 extinct in the stations recorded for those counties (vice- 

 counties 15 and 25). 1 have searched unsuccessfully for 

 it in the Isle of Sheppey (East Kent), at Landguard 

 Common,, and on the coast between Southwold and 

 /\ldborough (all in East Suffolk), including the locality 

 near the buried city of Dunwich, where it used to grow 

 "plentifully" according to Turner and Dillwyn's Botanical 

 Guide. North Essex is the remaining English vice-county 

 (19) for which there has been no record of the plant for 

 many years. 



The Island of Anglesey (county 52) is the only Welsh 

 county for the plant, and, as far as I can make out, here 

 occurred also the last authentic instance of its being col- 

 lected in Great Britain. This was in 1896, when Mrs. H. 

 Wynn Sampson, of Carnarvon, according to what Mr. J. 

 E. Griffiths informs me, found three or four plants at 

 Llanddwyn, at the extreme south-west of the island. 

 This place is not far from Abermenai Ferry, where Ray 

 is recorded to have found the plant plentifully. The 

 same lady had previously (in October, 1894) found a 

 single flowerless specimen near Llanfaelog, where, on 5th 

 September, 1727, Brewer saw it "in great plenty for a 

 mile together," but in Davies' time (more than ninety 

 years ago) it was considered to be extinct. 



Nearly all the Diotis in English herbaria has been 

 derived from the Channel Islands, and here, again, the 

 same record of its disappearance has to be made. In 

 Marquand's Flora of Guernsey, published this year, it is 



