172 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
1881, the Rev. M. C. H. Bird, of Brunstead Rectory, near 
Norwich (who knew nothing of Mr. King’s record quoted above), 
re-discovered the plant on Gay Marsh, of which he is, I believe, 
the owner. In oe course of last year, Mr. Bird (believing the 
locality to be new and unrecorded), sent me specimens, gathere 
penis rnfields "Howierin ing Gay Marsh, which is itself now laid 
wn to grass. These specimens I exhibited at a meeting of the 
Baste Field Club on 30th Oct <i 
In 1889, some thirty yea r King wrote, the late Mr. 
—— Clarke, F. S. A. (1802-1803), = Saffron Walden (a brother 
Mr. Joshua Clarke above mentioned), published additional 
Eileeisdatioe as to the plant on Canvey Island, derived personally, 
no doubt, from King, with whom he was intimate. 
“TS the foregoing ge Mr. Clarke adds = a 
tuberosus had also been “found at Bowers Gifford,’ a parish o 
the mainland, pron fash Island, from which it i is iktnboi 
nl cre pla 
there. If Mr. Clarke’s statement is correct, the plant has, no 
doubt, extended or been carried to Bowers Gifford from Canvey 
Isl 
Another locality at which the plant had been found growing in 
Britain before eee Us hen Corder recorde d it from Fyfield and 
bests in vain. "He saw no more of it until June 1871, when he 
found “about five small patches, all near together,” growing in 
the old spot.t The loca ocality was he says, “ much frequented ee 
° Ss 
probably because the circumstances left no reasonable doubt that, 
in the locality in seeecen te plant had been introduced by 
shipping from the Contin 
Exactly the same may ae said of another English locality, at 
which the plant had been observed, for the first time, only a few 
weeks before Corder observed it at Fyfield. Mr. Alexander Irvine 
* Essex Naturalist, iii. p. 274 (1889). 
+ Flora of ——_, p. bed gg 
thered by Mr. Briggs, at the spot indicated, on 19th June 
____$ Specimens 
1871, are in ra British Pi Mang 
