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which he supposed was " an inhabitant of the salt marshes " (supi'd). 

 The suggestion — while this confusion has long been in progress — has 

 more than once been made, that, if any of B. esculenta^ L., do occur, 

 they may have been introduced ; but I think, for the present, even 

 that may be dismissed, "at least until some one" — as Professor 

 White says {loc, cit.) — "has actually discovered R. esculenta in 

 Scotland."!] 



^ Of its introductions, successful or otherwise, to localities in England, it may 

 be of use to notice the references here : — Yorks., unsuccessful, 1896 (Oxley Grabham, 

 ZooL, 1896, p. 146); Surrey, successful {fde Mr. Boulenger) ; and its presence at 

 Foulmere, Cambridge, and Thetford and Scoulton, Norfolk (Harold Russell, ZooL, 

 1904, p. 352, and again at p. 390). 



