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but unstocked furnish the same evidence, but they, too, are 
generally near human dwellings. The beck banks of the Fenland 
supply the conditions we ve eat are well away from the 
villages. The streams now in many cases run on a level with the 
black-land they protect; therefore shia have to be guarded by 
soak-dykes to carry off the water that sipes through the light 
sandy alluvium when the becks are bankful. Stock are not per- 
“gts on oar on account of the damage they do, therefore 
m flouri 
en all ay vodk-acll notes that are as yet arranged for oo 
species are examined and analyzed, it mary se 
to graze it finds a resting-place in fair security. The trampling 
feet of children come too rarely to seriously injure it on the banks 
and hedgerow sides; and the scythe—no species grows and 
recovers more quickly after it has been cut down—once or twice 
a season prepares for it a fit abiding place by keeping in check 
stronger growing ms se ors. 
to Mr. Dunn’s remarks on this species 
in the body of his work we discover that it is a ‘‘ native in sate 
and forests from Spain and Morocco to Siberia and Him 4 
England then, or at least its seer portion, is s not olialite eatside 
its area of range. ‘‘ Woods forests,” however, imply whole 
cycles of rock-soil conditions saehe than bewildering to the true 
student, according as they possess peculiarities of soil, moisture, 
elevation, exposure, and “openness or closeness, stoc ing, &ec.” 
much is this the case that we are just as wise as we were 
before we possessed this information. In practice, where does it 
land us? Does this species abroad, under the same conditions of 
cultivation and stocking, take up a different position to that found 
here in Lincolnshire and other counties of Eastern England where 
I have carefully o a uk it ? sy ne . ipeeor here it 
