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barren surroundings. The extraordinary combination of 
marsh plants here, in an isolated position, consist of : 
Pinguicula vilgaris (Common Butterwort.) 
Eriophorum polystachion (Common Cotton-grass.) 
Menyanthes trifoliata (Buckbean.) 
Epipactis palustris (Marsh Helleborine.) 
Parnassia palustris (Grass of Parnassus.) 
Carex paniculata. Carex flava. 
Carex Hornschuchiana. Scirpus caricis. 
Carex xanthocarpa. Schoenus nigrican. 
In addition to these are Ovchzs latifolia, Orchis 
maculata, and the hybrids, Lzstera ovata (Tway blade), 
Cardamine pratensis (Cuckoo-flower), Lychnis floscucult 
(Ragged Robin), Valertana dioica (Small Marsh Valerian), 
Galium palustre and uliginosum, and Lotus uliginosus 
(Greater Birds-foot Trefoil). On the edge of the marsh, 
but still in the damp, is an unusual form of Gymnadenia 
conopsea (Sweet-scented Orchid), which is_ generally 
known only in dry situations, but which I have also seen 
in other parts of England, in a similar situation, and it 
would not suprise me if it should prove to be a distinct 
variety. Yet about 30 yards away from the marsh are 
masses of Saxifraga granulata growing in the short dry 
turf, and closer still, surrounding the marsh, several bright 
blue specimens of Polygala calcarea amongst the oolite 
stones. 
Not far away Galium sylvestre, a new plant to East 
Gloucestershire, was rather plentiful in ground once 
covered with turf, then used for the cultivation of corn, 
and now going back to its original condition. Near the 
above plant Alyssum calycinum was also found, this being 
of course a relic of cultivation. 
The fact of there being a marsh is explained by the 
presence of the Fullers’ Earth; but the presence of such 
an isolated combination of plants is not so easily accounted 
for. The probabilities are that wooded marshes extended 
