174 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
as stated already, a Suffolk locality for the plant has recently been 
recorded. Turning to the Lincolnshire specimen, we find that, 
although we have a statement by Buddle himself in regard to it, 
he does not claim to have collected it himself, but says that it had 
been collected by a certain Rev. John Sedgwick, from whom he 
(Buddle) had received it. The reverend gentleman named (of 
whom I know nothing) may or may not have been a careful and 
by Dutchmen, who may have brought the plant to both places. 
However this may have been, in Buddle’s time “the north field of 
Blankney”’ was (as Mr. Woodruffe-Peacock informs me) an unen- 
f 
nineteenth century. Mr. Woodruffe-Peacock has endeavoured to 
ascertain if the plant has been seen on the ground in question 
within recent years, but has failed to hear of it. This goes to 
throw further doubt upon the record; for, as mentioned hereafter, 
the plant is nearly ineradicable; and, if it ever grew there, it 
would probably grow there still. In any case, it not ) 
believe that Buddle, alone among the early botanists, had a plant 
so rare in Britain from two different English counties. 
gr 
Canvey Island) being in the county of Es 
tramway, about 4 mile from high road, beyond Norway 
cottages.” | ~ Whether or not the plant still grows there I cannot 
say. 
* Science Gossip, xxiy, Pp. 224-226 (1888); see also V. C. H. Sussec, i. 
p. 41 (1905). 
t These plants differ somewhat from the usual type, being slightly stunted 
and less free in habit, with narrower (almost lanceolate) leaves; but their 
identification appears to be correct. 
