DISTRIBUTION OF SONCHUS PAI.USTRIS, L. 35 
$ 
scraper in Mr. J. W. Clarke’s collection is partly chipped on 
the edge of the upper surface, the half circle being completed 
by chipping on the edge of the under surface. 
Among the miscellaneous implements, some are discoidal, 
perhaps used as throwing stones. Others are square ended, 
one 3 inches broad and 4 inches long having been found 
near Grimes’ Graves. Almost unique is a large implement 
found at Weeting and weighing 1 lb. 14 o*s. One edge has 
been worked so as apparently to form a large knife, while 
the other side, 2 inches in width, has been considerably 
battered on the outer edges, seeming to indicate that it was 
fixed with the broad edge uppermost and used as an anvil. 
It is 8'1 inches in length, and 3J wide at the widest part. 
IV. 
DISTRIBUTION OF SONCHUS PALUSTRIS, L., AND 
. 4 TRIPLEX PEDUNCULATA, L., IN ENGLAND. 
By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Read 31s/ January, 1905. 
Two more very local and rare species that are among our 
decreasing plants. 
No doubt before 1S00 the Sonchus was to be found in many 
counties. In Lincolnshire, Arthur Young,* when staying 
with Sir Joseph Banks at Revesby Abbey in 1799, saw it in 
the East Fen. It is still to be found in Kent, possibly Essex, 
E. Norfolk and Suffolk. It seems to be quite extinct in 
Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Huntingdon, Lincoln, and W. 
Norfolk. The large marsh form of S. arvensis, L., is at times 
Author of ‘A General \ iew of the Agriculture of Lincoln,’ 1799. 
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