About 1,100 sheets of Hauler's Paraguay plants were acquired 
by purchase. They consist of Dr. Hassler's collections for the 
years 1903-5, and include a set collected by T. Rojas in the 
Northern Chaco of Paraguay, a little-known district. 
Another large American collection was the concluding instal- 
ments of his Amazons plants, purchased from Dr. E. Ule. 
It included over 1,000 sheets, of which 400 were Cellular 
Cryptogams, and the remainder Phanerogams and Vascular 
Cryptogams. 
A valuable contribution received from Mr. R. T. Baker, Curator 
of the Technological Museum. Sydney, was a complete set of the 
new species of Eucalyptus, described by him and investigated in 
Baker and Smith, "A Research on the Eucalypts, especially in 
regard to their Essential Oils " (Sydney, 1902). 
The first fascicle of his " Salices Scandinaviae " was purchased 
from Mr. S. J. Enander. It contains 150 specimens and photo- 
specimens form a noteworthy 
Discovery of Goodyera repens in Norfolk.-The Rev. Guy Halh- 
dav, of Bowhill, Bradninch, Devon, recently sent to Kew a 
specimen of an orchid which he had collected near Holt, m North 
Norfolk, requesting its name. It proved to be Goodyera repens, 
and, in response to our request, he communicated the following 
B. Cycling to Holt, and botanizing by the way, he and 
his wife came to a pond with a pine-wood and heath 
They strayed some hundred yards into the wood and had turned 
to go back when Mr. Hallidav's eye fell upon an orchid. This 
was carelessly pulled up under the impression that it was 
autumnalis, and a hasty search was made for i 
l.ut iinsurcrssfullv. Su 1 >.- -q n eiir examinauni] cuiv : 
it was not a Spiranthes ; he thought it must be Goodyera, and t 
make sure he sent it to Kew. 
Until 1885 there was no convincing record of an English sr itaon 
for this plant, but in Baker's Flora of the Lake Distrust it ifl 
recorded, on the authority of Dr. F. A. Lees, from a fir plantation 
between Penrith and Carlisle. In 1888, Mr. J. J. Marshall 
{Journ, Bok, p. 379) recorded the discovery of several plants in 
Houghton Wood, near Market Weighton, S.E. Yorkshire. Now 
comes this one from Holt. The question arises, how did the 
Goodyera reach these modern pine-woods ? This suggests another 
question, were the young pines brought from the forests of Scot- 
land and seeds or roots of the Goodyera with them ? Possibly 
seed may have been conveyed by birds, or intentionally sown by 
man. Whatever the history may be, it is almost certain that the 
Goodyera did not exist in these southern localities before the 
pines were planted. A similar isolated locality for this plant was 
pointed out to Mr. Bean by Mr. Maurice de Vilmorin, at Les 
Barres. This is also in a young pine- wood. 
