512 MR. A. BENNETT ON PYROLA ROTUNDIFOLIA IN EAST ANGLIA. 
VI. 
PYROLA R 0 TUNDIFOLIA , L., IN EAST ANGLIA. 
By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Read 27 th January, 1003. 
If you look at a map of England and mark the Counties in Mid. 
and E. England in which this species occurs, you will see how 
curious its distribution is. It occurs in E. and W. Kent ! E. Suffolk ! 
(extinct?). Norfolk E! and W., and then not till Worcester, 
Stafford ! and Salop, in all of which it is very rare ; then to Flint ! 
Yorkshire and Lancashire ! In no southern county is it recorded 
except Sussex, where there is an old unconfirmed record for it. 
But in last August (1902) it was found in E. Sussex and sent to 
the Kev. E. N. Bloomfield. It is given in the ‘ Flora of Herts,’ 
p. 269, 1887 (by A. R. Pryor, edited by B. Daydon Jackson), but 
I much doubt this record, neither author or editor put a ! to it. 
In Kent it occurs in woods, not in marshes as in Norfolk. In 
Koch’s £ Synopsis of the German and Swiss Flora ’ its habitat is 
given as “ in sylvis umbrosis.” In N. America in “ dry woods,” 
while another species, P. uliginosa, Torrey, is found in bogs and 
marshes ; in the ‘ Flora of Schleswig-Holstein,’ by Dr. Prahl (1890), 
it is given from “ Turf-moors, hut oftener in woods.” In Scotland 
it grows “ on moist rocks and woods.” In the station near Heigham 
Sounds it grows in very wet ground, and in drier on the hillocks 
in the marsh ; close by Cladium mariscus is growing in twelve 
inches of water. In Britain we have so little data as to groupings 
of plants (except the work commenced by the late Mr. Smith in 
Scotland) that we have no means of comparing what species grows 
with it in other counties. 
The earliest record for Suffolk seems to he 1800. Meadows at 
Gorleston and Bradwell Common among the furze, Lilly Wigg; 
hut Sir J. E. Smith says it was extinct here in 1828. 
