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FIELD MEETINGS, 1951 
(Wahl.) Reichb. for Grin Woods, Buxton, in a site known to the leaders 
for many years. 
Thanks are due to the following referees for their kind assistance 
in checking and naming critical plants; J. P. M. Brenan, J. E. 
Dandy, C. E. Hubbard, R. Melville, E. Nelmes, N. Y. Sandwith, H. K. 
Airy Shaw, V. S. Summerhayes, A. E. Wade, E. F. Warburg, W. C. R. 
Watson, and to those members of the party who have contributed recoids. 
R. H. Hall. 
FIELD MEETINGS, 1951 
MAY 4th to 6th, 1951. IPSWICH. 
Leader: F. W. Simpson. 
The object of this meeting, held in conjunction with the Suffolk 
Naturalists’ Society, was to study the spring annuals on the sandy 
heaths and fallow fields near Woodbridge. It was attended by 36 mem- 
bers. 
Friday, 4th May. 
The Ipswich Museum Committee had kindly placed a room at our 
disposal in the Museum, High Street, and members met there at 8 p.m. 
Dr. J. G. Dony introduced the leader, who outlined the programme and 
the objects of the meeting. Mr. Simpson then gave an informal lecture 
on the botany of Suffolk, illustrated with 130 lantern slides of photo- 
graphs he had taken. He stressed the disappearance of some species 
and the present rarity of others which was due almost entirely to the 
extinction or change of use of their natural habitats. The activities 
of Agricultural Committees, the Forestry Commission, the Defence 
Ministries, and the County Councils were diminishing the native flora 
rapidly. 
Saturday, 5th May. 
Members set out by coach and private cars for Chillesford. We 
passed en route plantations of conifers which now extend over a large 
area which was formerly open heathland or light arable land. Near 
Butley we saw the forest of Staverton, which contains many old oaks 
and some fine hollies. This forest may well have been aboriginal and 
have extended over a much wider area in primitive times. At Chilles- 
ford the party was met by the Hon. Mrs. Alastair Watson, who had 
given permission for it to visit the estate. The area selected for ex- 
ploration consisted mainly of a somewhat barren warren at the head 
of Butley Creek. The soil is glacial sand capping the shellj’^ deposits 
of Pliocene Red Crag and the earlier Coralline Crag ivhich is a much 
harder deposit, formerly used as a building stone. The flora of the 
area is similar to that of the Breck. In order to cover as much ground 
as possible members went off in small groups. The vegetation of the 
more open parts was only a few inches high, but several of the local 
plants were soon found : Teesdalia nudicaulis, Tillaea. muscosa, Yicia 
Lathyroides and Trifolmm suffocafum . Montia verm, a new district 
record, was also found; it had previously been found in the vice-county 
but recorded as M. fontana. 
