4492 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
carry the seed of Pinguzcula to the spot where it could flourish ? 
I have studied the laws of environment for years, but I should not 
have selected the spot I saw it growing on as the one to choose in 
that field, had I not seen it flourishing there. Its nearest known 
habitats must be four miles away in a bee line in all directions. 
If the zephyrs and a bird sowed these plants, they are excep- 
tional as shunners of man, from being sown naturally in the 
neighbourhood of man, but not from being sown by man, which 
is my point 
ately before me, when she showed me the Phyllitis in my garden 
and told me its history, ended by saying :—“ When it was growing 
on the willow in Parker’s field the leaves had the usual fructifica- 
tion, but since we moved it into this garden it has had none.” 
Neither had it any from the time I became vicar of Cadney till it 
Just_so, for that was exactly what might have been 
expected. hen it was naturally sown it developed normally; 
when it was moved to unnatural surroundings, where it could 
only just exist, its fertility was destroyed. A simple proof that 
in the first case the spore was naturally sown, that is wind-carried 
to a fitting environment. 
GENTIANA GERMANICA AS A BRITISH PLANT. 
By James Brirren, F.L.S. 
Mr. W. A. CuarkE in his First Records (p. 97) gives 1841 as 
the earliest printed record for this species as Britis ith a 
a ee Sean See retin oe ae ean neneernaet = ee edhe ol i cae 
ns oa date of his herbarium is given in the Flora as 1850, but Forster died 
