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a rule. This species was badly cut by the great frost of 1895, 

 but in very few cases killed by it, its power of resistance 

 proving much greater than that of the Gorse — Ulex europaus I* 



Pinus sylvestris L.t Native, but often planted. Divs. 1-3.6-8. 



1 0-13. 1 6. See F. A. Lees, Naturalist, 1877, p. 4 ; A. Stark's 

 Parish 0/ Lea, 1841, p. 7 ; Sir J, Banks as above ; J. C. DeSerra, 

 Phil. Trans., vol. 89, p. 145 (1797); P. Thompson's Boston, 

 1820, p. 276. The 'Scotch Fir 7 requires a rich soil, and it is 

 essential that the substratum be dry. It seeds and renews itself 

 spontaneously in every suitable locality. 



HYDROCHARIDE/i;. 



Elodea canadensis Michn.f An alien, first noted tn the river 

 Trent in 1848. Divs. 1-7.9-18. Recorded for this county by 

 the late Dr. B. Carrington, Pot. Gaz. y 1849, pp. 323-4. See 

 long account in Miller and Skertchly's Fenla?td, 1878, pp. 307-15. 

 After thrusting out many of our native species, • it attained its 

 maximum of commonness about 1870. It seems dying out 

 again over large areas now.' — F. A. Lees. Compare with this 

 what F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., writes in the Pot. Pitltetin No. u 

 (July 1895), of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, 

 Brisbane, on our very next species Hydrocharis. About twenty 

 years ago this species became most abundant in the still waters 

 round Brisbane, but for the last fifteen years the author has not 

 met with a single specimen : indeed, he stated he knows of no 

 (Queensland habitat of the plant. May Elodea follow this 

 example quickly. 



Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae L.t Native. Divs. 1-6.8-18. 



Stratiotes aloides L.t Native, but dying out fast, and not to be 

 found in many of its old stations recorded here even now. 

 Divs. 2.5.6.9-12.14.16-18. 



ORCfllDE.i;. 



Ma l axis paludosa Sw. Native, for there is no reason to doubt 



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the record though we have no specimen, and the species is 

 extinct. Horncastle Moor, before 1820 ; Ward-Weir Ltst 

 Div. 10. 

 Liparis Loeselu Rich. Native. Lincolnshire; F. W. Burbridge 

 in Gard. Chron., 1884, p. 144. ■ Some years ago a correspondent, 

 a lady, who was quite a stranger — I have never heard from her 

 since — sent to me a specimen of Z. Loeselii, in flower, growing 

 on a little tuft of rushes—/, effusus, I believe. I remember 

 her note and specimen came from Lincoln (City), and what 

 1 especially impressed the fact on my mind was that I hadjnever 



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