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tinctoria grew not far from Blackheath, but it is now quite 

 extinct, as is Primula farinosa, at Eltham, and the Summer 

 Spiranth (Spiranthes czstivalis), in Camden Park, Chislehurst. 



How local the little Squill (above referred to) is, may be 

 inferred from the fact that it has only been found in four, out 

 of the eighteen botanical provinces into which the British 

 Isles have been sub-divided. 



In connection with these plants it may be worthy of 

 mention that Chislehurst can boast of being one of the very 

 few native stations where the wild Tulip has produced 

 flowers, while a discussion took place lately as to whether 

 the Plumstead Thistle, to which we have referred, was not 

 extinct as a British plant — fortunately, it has been found in 

 the Cambridge fens. 



The Deptford Pink, you will be glad to know, has 

 become quite naturalised in Greenwich Park. 



Many other native plants, particularly Orchids, the 

 Lloydia, or Mountain Tulip, the bog Sandwort, Alpine 

 Lychnis, and Coralroot, are fast becoming exterminated. 



