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abundant of the two over a considerable part of the wood, but 
on the south side of the wood it gives place to the primrose. I 
have noticed that P. elatior has spread on to the Railway bank 
near Stansted, Essex.— A. J. Crosfield. I think right.— E.F.L. 
Mr. Miller Christy, in his paper (“Journ. Linn. Soc.”, 1897), 
remarks : “Nearly, if not quite, all the British localities in which 
the plant [P. elatior\ grows in the open are, I believe, situated 
close to the edge of the oxlip area.” My father’s home for 
twenty-two years was at Stansfield Rectory, Suffolk, in the heart 
of the main oxlip area, and yearly visits in the spring gave me 
an opportunity of observing its habitats. While, in the main, 
Mr. Christy’s remark is correct, and the woods periodically 
coppiced were its main stronghold, nevertheless, the finest 
development of the plant Avas along boggy rills and watercourses 
in rather more open ground. The number of plants in such 
situations Avas smaller, but both leaves and floAvers Avere more 
luxuriant. For some years I greAv plants at Hitchin ; but in our 
lighter soil (and on a hill) they gradually dAvindled and finally 
died out. The late Mr. J. H. Tuke greAv plants from Saffron 
Walden in heavier soil in his garden in Bancroft, Hitchin, though 
to me they seemed to change and lose their character, possibly 
OAving to the gradual substitution of hybrids for the original pure 
■strain. Within a radius of some miles from Stansfield no prim- 
roses (except garden plants) Avere known to me. At one 
locality (Gallowgate), betAveen Somerton and Thurston End, 
there were a feAv primroses, probably due to a garden, though 
apparently wild. Here there occurred hybrids which Avere 
difficult to place, as all three species Avere in close proximity. 
Mr. J. L. Luddington sent me some specimens from Wallington, 
near DoAvnham Market, Avhich he thought might be true oxlip. 
But they lacked the distinctive scent of the oxlip, and the throat 
of the corolla was Avrinkled, as it never is in the true oxlip. 
There is, I think, no Boulder Clay at Wallington, and the height 
above sea level is not more than fifty feet. Also, Wallington lies 
outside the two main oxlip areas as delimited by Mr. Christy, 
and some distance to the north of even the tAvo small outliers at 
Livermere Thicks (five miles north of Bury) and at Dickleburgh 
f tAvo miles east of Hiss), which are both on Boulder Clay. I suggest 
P. veris x vulgaris for the Wallington plants ; and Prof. G-. S. 
i Boulger, to whom I shoAved them, concurs. — J. E. Little. 
Anagallis arvensis L., forma. Under bracken on peat drove, 
tear Ascott Station, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, Aug. 2, 1919. Some 
nternodesof 31 inches; slender upright form; leaves fciv, small 
