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higher predial claims. Hence, when finding such plants as Scirpus 
maritimus, Carex distans, Rumex maritimus, Apium raveolens, Bu- 
pleurum tenuissimum, and Gastridium lendigerum, established on the 
is accompanied by Carex distans. Under ordinary circumstances, 
by the na 
cende 
the stream. A very natural means of such reverse distribution will 
suggest itself to everyone who has watched the habits of wildfowl 
e $ soon as the floods of winter cover the washes, 
runnin 
In this way Stukely may have got its shoreland plants; Lutton, m 
the Isle of Ely, its Buplewrum tenuissimum, Juncus compressus, and 
Apium graveolens; and Monks Wood its colony of Gastridium 
lendigerum.—AuFrep FRYER. 
mM. 
have since died out, and are now presumably extinct. No doubt 
the greater number of these are lost to us, but certainly not all, 
for, in addition to Rwmex maritimus, already shown to exist in some 
quantity in our neighbourhood, I have found Dianthus Armeria in & 
lane not far from Hayes; Trigonella ornithopodioides on Uxbridge 
Common ; and Trifolium scabrum in the gravel-pits on Hillingdon 
Heath. Ranunculus parviflorus and Sagina nodosa are referred to 
) g l ) 
ment near Cowley, and the latter—so lately as November last 
moors about two miles and a half north of Uxbridee. These are 
neither large nor important additions to the county flora, but they 
suggest that, if some three or four “ extinct” species can be found 
wi n area of two or three miles, a patient search in other 
quarters would be rewarded by the re-discovery of others of their 
number.—Joun Brnzow. 
