268 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
3. Building on Boar’s Hill, near Oxford, has destroyed 
the site of a rare pink—Dzvanthus prolifer. 
4. Quarrying has often swept rare plants out of exist- 
ence, and, even now, damage in Gloucestershire has been 
done at Clifton to Aradbzs stricta, and near Chepstow to 
Sedum rupestre. 
5. Near Methuen, in Scotland, seagulls suddenly took 
to nesting, and destroyed the habitat for Scheuchzeria 
palustris. 
6. The great gale in 1895 swept down large numbers 
of pines at Loch Tay. Close by was the only habitat for 
Calamagrostis borealis. Saw mills were later erected to 
cut up the pines, and Mr Druce visited the locality to see 
if there was any danger, but as the saw mills were 100 
yards away he thought the plant safe. Later, he again 
went, but the sawdust from the mills had been cast on the 
marsh and utterly destroyed the plant. 
7. The trimming of the roadside turf along Watling 
Street by a County Council destroyed Eryngium cam- 
pestre, which is very rare in England, and only grew in 
Northamptonshire in that one locality. 
Now in all such cases the law is inapplicable, and the 
only remedies practically are to enclose such spots, or to 
remove the plants to a safe distance, if possible in the 
same locality (and certainly in the same geological or 
natural formation), or to keep up a stock by sowing seeds 
or planting seedlings. As the Cotteswold Naturalists’ 
Field Club has for one of its objects the protection of rare 
plants, members should everywhere be alert to the possi- 
bility of destruction in any of the ways indicated, or in 
other ways. With the aid, then, of an Association leave 
might be obtained to enclose spots (¢.g., a habitat for the 
Lizard orchid is now enclosed by barbed wire), to obtain 
very interesting habitats and vest them in trustees (a small 
bog has been thus obtained in Oxon), to keep small wild 
