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towards March, where the latter watercourse fell into the old 
Nene. Along these silted-up rivers, and by the old ‘‘ crooked dykes 
that carried off, and were subjected to, their overflows through the 
fens, L. campestre occurs in some abundance. There a ee Oo) 
the ancient drainage of the fens in Dugdale’s ‘ Drainage and I 
banking,’ which oe and explains the theory of distribution 
here given. It must be borne in mind that the former course 0: 
these old waters is divi dry, and for the protiter part level with and 
undistinguishable from the surrounding fens.—Aurrep Fryer. 
Eurnorsta Laruyris IN ee —This plant occurs 
truly wild in the Great Wood, uae Willy ih in some little 
quantity. No introduced plant was near. Mr. Lewin found it 
near Fineslade, and Mr. Mott ipod it on the borders ‘of Bedford 
Purlieus: so its range is fairly wide in that great woodland tract. 
Lberis a: being quite ren arance to any other 
Callitriche : in this locality ‘a pated probably confusus, grew 
wit < a also found it near Ingoldistho a in water in which a 
_ —_— of red matter was suspen _ More — while 
pl ants 8 home, which now show ey peenliac habit. I might ie 
Pez "Sele ie .& Br. IN ‘Su FFOLK.— 
For fanart vyeia ake this ~ saa has scsi in abundance at 
the Grove, in the parish of Great Glenham, near Saxmundh 
It is found in spring growing almost as close as -s can stand under 
and near a large cedar. Some thirty years o I on several 
occasions in spring found Verpa digitaliformis Pp. Osea semt- 
libera DC., and Peziza venosa P. in the same neighbourh oO 
are recorded in the ‘ Suffolk Flora’ by Henslow & Skepper, but, as 
the Verpa is rare, I pe: it may be well to put them on record 
again.— 
CENTAUREA ren IN at ssrx.—My anticipations with respect to 
this plant (p. 150) have, I am glad to say, been realised; £ have 
not only met with it again in the same locality as last year, but .: 
ve also found several a of it in another upland meadow at 
