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formerly not distinguished from bifolia), Scirpus jluitans, Carex fuha (?), 

 and Festuca arundinacea. 



Of species with census numbers ranging from seventy to eighty 

 there are 101, and seventeen of these are unknown in Nottinghamshire. 

 Ten of the absentees, however, are plants that grow only by the sea, and 

 therefore could not occur with us. The others are : Utricularia minor 

 (recorded by Ordoyno, but not confirmed), Scutellaria minor ; Potamogeton 

 alpinus, Eleocbaris acicularis, Rbyncbospora alba, Pbegopteris Dryopteris, and 

 P. polypodioides, 



The species occurring in from sixty to seventy counties or vice- 

 counties number ninety-seven. The most conspicuous absentees with us 

 are besides a number of maritime and submontane plants Sagina 

 subulata and S. ciliata, Hypericum e lodes, Sedum anglicum (?), Hieracium 

 murorum, Centunculus minimus, Carex laevigata, and Polys tic bum angular e (?). 



There are ninety-five species with a census number between fifty 

 and sixty, and of these we necessarily lack the maritime species as well 

 as a few northern forms such as Geranium sylvaticum, Cnicus heterophyllus, 

 Cryptogramme crispa, Lycopodium alpinum, Selaginella, etc. In addition to 

 these we want the following : Fumaria Boraei, Diplotaxis muralis (has 

 occurred as an alien), several Rubi, Rosa involuta, Cotyledon Umbilicus, 

 Drosera anglica and intermedia (Howitt's locality for D. intermedia is 

 almost certainly in Lincolnshire), Euphorbia amygdaloides (recorded by 

 Deering, perhaps erroneously, and certainly not found since), Listera 

 cordata, Potamogeton obtusifolius, Carex divulsa, C. axillaris, C. extensa, and 

 Pilularia globulifera. 



Of the species found in fewer than fifty vice-counties so many are 

 wanting in Nottinghamshire that it will be sufficient to refer the reader 

 to the list of the plants of the county at the end of this article. 



The vast majority of our wild plants naturally belong to the British 

 and English types of distribution, but there is a sprinkling of species 

 representing other types. Thus of Germanic species we have Myosurus 

 minimus,* Hippuris vu/garis, Galium erectum and G. tricorne, Lactuca uirosa, 

 Campanula glomerata, Monotropa Hypopitys, Limosella aquatica, Orchis 

 pyramidalis and O. ustulata* Allium oleraceum, Bromus erectus, Bracby- 

 podium pinnatum, Hordeum syhaticum, etc. Of Scottish type are, among 

 others, Viola lutea* Vicia syhatica, Parnassia palustris, Antennaria dioica* 

 Crepis paludosa* Campanula latifolia, Pyrola minor* Pinguicula vulgaris, 

 Salix pentandra, Empetrum nigrum, Melica nutans* Among species of 

 Intermediate type we have Poterium qfficinale, Gagea fascicularis, Crocus 

 nudijiorus, and Scbeucbzeria palustris* Plants of the Atlantic type are, as 

 might be expected, few in number, and, indeed, not a single species is 

 certainly known to occur now, at any rate as a native ; the recorded 

 species are Coronopus didymus, Erodium moschatum and E. maritimum, Sedum 

 anglicum, and Verbascum virgatum. Vaccinium Vitis-idaea is our only 

 Highland species, and we have no representative of the Local type. 



* Species marked with an asterisk have not been seen in the county for many years and are 

 probably extinct. 



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