80 Ptoceedmffx. 



I much fear this is really extinct, and yet considering the 

 amount of enclosure, drainage, and cultivation that has gone 

 on only in this last century, it is wonderful we have lost so 

 few plants as we have. 



Still, there are remote parts of the Broad country that may 

 even yet produce it, as I am glad to say it does its old com- 

 panion, Senecio palustris. This also seems extinct in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, but in Suffolk, and especially Norfolk, it is, I am 

 glad to say, fairly abundant in some three stations, and I 

 have seen as many as thirty specimens in full flower at once, 

 and that where it is not likely to be disturbed by drainage or 

 cultivation for many years, for the ground is so wet that it is 

 impossible to get to it without a boat, and then it needs care in 

 walking about. 



So7ichvs palustris is also, I fear, another Cambridgeshire 

 plant that is lost, but in Suffolk and Kent it still holds its 

 own. Teiicriuni Scordium is still to be gathered near Mepal 

 and Ely. 



Many of the Fens around Wicken (such as Keche and Bur- 

 well) used to produce Liparis Loeselii, the Fen Orchis, but 

 now it has become exceedingly rare there, but in another 

 part of the county, on the borders of Suffolk, it occurs in 

 plenty. With my friend from Chatteris we could have 

 gathered it by thousands, and not hurt the station. Here it 

 grew among Cladium, Pinguicula, Carex JiU/orims ; in fact, it 

 had not been gathered in Cambridgeshire for twenty years until 

 we found it in this spot. Chippenham Moor is one of these 

 spots, and here around the Fen, on a raised bank, grew the 

 Selinum Carvifolia, found only a few years ago by Mr. Cross, 

 of Ely, and which we gathered with the Liparis. Mr. Cross, 

 Mr. Marshall, of Ely, and Mr. Potter, of Cambridge (Prof. 

 Babington's assistant), all consider it native ; my friend and 

 I consider it was introduced into a planted belt of trees some 

 eighty or ninety years ago ; this raised bank is different to 

 the Fen-land, and looks artificial, as though made to afford 

 the trees a growing place, as the Fen would then have been 

 far too wet for them to grow in. 



Those who delight to see our rare plants preserved will be 



