210 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
years the soil had been cultivated. Its flora now and for many 
Rents has contained Scilla, Adoxa, Primula 0 eorsiale and Alliwm 
h t 
Mm, 
Recording Allium oleraceum as a woodland species may cause 
some difficulty. There are, however, two varieties of this species— 
} i d rarely in Lincolnshire 
yards awa 
The definitions « fringing carrs” and “fen carrs” is unfortu- 
e. The original meaning of “carr” ig a lowland level stretch 
Surel 
carrs ’’ are the spots where the alluvial soil and limy waters acting 
together have prevented peat growth in excess 
is also recorded as abundant in “the alder-willow 
thickets.” I ask, for I want t¢ w, do either ash or alder 
at species of Ribes can be abundant in the « fringing carrs”’ 
ir ns ? 
Ulmi forms present a most complicated problem. The 
campestris varieties seem to be found only o 
Thames valley. I suspected this ag far back as the early eighties, 
never met with a pure old wood of this ies. It belongs to 
the Oak-Ash woods of the clays. Its area of distribution is far 
nly found in late peats, and in 
pular opinion “ would not be grown if it were not for coffin- 
98 -’ I cannot help regarding it as the root form, if there are 
truly two species; for all types of trunk, branch, bark, leaf, and 
