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' protoplasm ' into such popular prominence when he named 

 it ' the physical basis of life.' 



In such a short historical sketch as this, we cannot do more 

 than just mention one or two men connected with each main 

 advance, and name them crudely ' the discoverers.' But it g-oes 

 without saying that this is only a shorthand manner of speech. 

 Each g-reat discovery is arrived at by a gradual building up 

 process in which many hands take part, though as a rule it 

 is only the man who at the eleventh hour sets the coping stone 

 who is remembered in after years. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 

 Plantago coronopus at Beverley. — My attention has been 

 drawn to Plantago coronoptis growing on the side of the Beverley 

 Beck. It seems to have wandered a long way from its proper 

 home, Flamborough Head, though I see it noted in Robinson's 

 East-Riding Flora at South Cave and on the Wolds. — ^J. J. 

 Marshall, Beverley, May ist. 



A Budded Ash. — Near the Churchyard at Cadney, in the 

 Manor House stackyard, grows an ash about fifty years old. 

 One large branch of this tree puts out leaves a fortnight before 

 the rest of the tree, and in the autumn the leaves come off a 

 fortnight earlier. This branch was budded into the tree by 

 one Joe Dunn, now in foreign parts if alive, along with a 

 nvuTiber of other buds, for the purpose of making a ' weeping 

 ash.' Only one bud lived, and it ' weepeth not.' In summer 

 the tree looks norma), but at leafing and the fall abnormal. — 

 E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, May 12th, 1906. 



Primula elatior, Jacquin, in Lincolnshire. — Mr. J. 



Hawkins, of Grantham, recorded this species as a native on the 

 Chalky Boulder Clay in 1905 in The Field. I was more than 

 sceptical about it, as I have had quite a hundred hybrids between 

 Priniiila acaulis Linn., and P. officinalis Linn., gathered in 

 Lincolnshire, through my hands in the last thirty years. On the 

 27th of April he fulfilled his promise by putting a specimen into 

 my hands. There is no question it is the true plant of Jacquin, 

 not a hybrid. There are several roots growing on a bank of 

 Chalky Boulder Clay under a hedge in an arable field, bordering 

 the road, not far from Hazel Wood, near Great Ponton. This 

 adds South Lines. 53 to the four other vice-counties already 

 recorded for the species. — E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, 

 Cadney, Brigg, May 3rd, 1906. 



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