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Carex dioica up to Comarum and Carduus pratensis. Visiting the 
moor again in the late ee ee I satisfied myself these had 
gone (for a generation or tw ast), the ground had grown drier, 
partly from circumferential ae partly from the growth of 
ageressive species, rushes, Hriophorum vaginatum, Erica cinerea, 
oung Pinus and Abies s—in ‘the order here given—and now, in 1897, 
what we there? Gentiana Pneumonanthe, Hypericum pulchr um, 
Carex binervis by hundreds, “otlibe xerophiles in plenty—the Hrio 
phorum vaginatum even having gone, the drouth and soil- induration 
too much for it! Here is a sample of many similar transformation 
scenes I have watched, in slow make and unmake; and it has its 
Moral and its Application to many mysteries the botanist is faced 
by when he happens to come across a plant almost at the outset of 
its natural appearance in a locality. To Mr. Bennett’s inferences 
regarding what Relhan and Holme found or omitted to record, 
would say Song and—of course they couldn’t find what was 
probably not ther 
At Bro oughton, Lincolnshire, Selinwm Pi to me, and my 
companions the Revs. Fowler & Peacock, on the decrease ie 1897 
ood-shaded marshy pastureland it ny in is a g too dry 
for fu ‘bat it was distinctly gr al here & there in the wetter 
(ubiquitous in Lincoln East & West Fen long after Banks tim 
now nearly gone, dike-banks bordered with Galeopsis versicolor and 
clean-kept lodes where it luxuriated, eee te ter at foot), 
ei tega/ with ae three em ed, it is my deliberate opinion 
that er 25 or 80 years will see ioe non-est where we now 
will have turned up. In this connexion, too, it is ee — 
suggestive to recall the history of Peucedanum palustre, its life a: 
death, on the Burtle peat-moors of out-west Somerset, as velucidnted 
by the Rev. R. P. Murray and Mr. J. W. White.—F. Arnotp Lezs. 
[The author’s MS. has been followed implicitly throughout as to 
sage iain, etc.—Eb. Journ. Bor.] 
m Scucnoprasum L. i Inetanp.—In July, 1895 (and again 
in 1800), I discovered a flowerless garlic, thinly scattered over about 
the limestone tract lying immediately south of Lough 
Mask, E. Mayo, extending to within one hundred yards of Co. Gal- 
way, though I could not trace it across the border, where it probably 
occurs, which had quite the habit of Chives; the blooming of one 
plant now at length justifies my opinion. The nature of the locality 
forbids 7 reasonable doubt as to its wildness, and I think that a 
the green, straight foliage of Schenoprasum, nae in spite of — 
constancy, they are scarcely more than varieties of one species, as 
