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DISTRIBUTION OF SONCHUS PALUSTRIS, L., 
occurred on the swampy common, enclosed in 1798, an d 
long since built over. 
3. Devon S. Totnes Flora. 
Hants error for Hunts in Eng. Botany ed. 3. 
20. Herts. FI. Hertfordiensis. 
39. Stafford. Nat. Hist, of Staffordshire. 
40. Salop. FI. of Shropshire. 
55. Leicester. Rarer plants of Leicestershire. 
56. Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Flora. 
69. Westmorland. Martineau Guide 
75. Ayr. Ayrshire Botany, 
82. Edinburgh. Flora Edinensis 
The other species, A triplex pedunculata is one of those 
curious plants that can never be depended on. I have 
known it to be searched for in Kent, seven years in succession, 
and not found ; the next year it will be abundant. I have 
seen it myself in that county in hundreds of specimens, and 
two years after had great difficulty in finding two or three 
small examples, although going over the same ground. 
Being an annual it can hardly be from the same cause as 
the Orchids, that appear and disappear in so puzzling a way. 
It fruits late. On September 13th I could find no ripe 
fruits. 
Between 1834 and 1848 it was tolerably common around 
Yarmouth, both in Norfolk and Suffolk, but has now become 
very rare. I have sought it unsuccessfully around Breydon, 
and do not know of its having been gathered of late years. 
The middle of September is the best time to search for it, 
as its peculiar fruits at once call attention to it at that time. 
I shall be glad to hear of its recent occurrence in E. Norfolk. 
Atriplex pedunculata, L., Cent. pi. i. 33, 1755. 
Halimus pedunculatus. Wallr. Sched. Crit. 117, 1822. 
Obione pedunculata. Moq. Tand. Chenopod, Enum, 
75, 1840. 
Heart Sea Purslane. Petiver Herb. Brit. t. 7, fig. 8, 1713. 
Pedunculated Sea Orache. Smith FI. Brit, iii., 1095, 
1804. 
