MR. A. BENNETT ON IIOLOSTEUM UMBELLATUM, I.. 23I 
VI. 
HOLOSTEUM UMBELLATUM, L„ STATICE 
RETICULATA, L., & PHLEUM BOEHMERI, Wibei.. 
By A. Bennett, F.L.S. 
Read 30 th January , 1906. 
In the above vve have three more East Anglian species, that 
ire decreasing, so far as counties are concerned. 
Still Holosteuin has been found in Surrey, and recorded* 
oy Mr. C. E. Salmon, to whom I am indebted for specimens. 
In a lately established weekly paper, ‘ The Country-Side,’ 
which though containing many interesting notes) there are 
suggestions for growing our rarer plants and planting, or 
sowing them in wild places. So long as this was only done in 
gardens no harm could happen, but the other suggestion is 
full of future trouble, and cannot be too widely known and 
deprecated. This planting has been done near London, and 
in the New Forest, but these are fairly well known, and can 
be ignored in Lists, &c. 
Of the species here treated Statice reticulata is probably 
extinct except in Norfolk ; no recent records of its occurrence 
in Lincoln, or Cambridge are extant. Though so restricted 
it is abundant where it does occur in Norfolk. Why it should 
be lost in Lincoln does not seem easy to explain unless the 
constituents of its former habitats are altered. We read it 
occurred “ where the sheep bite close.” I have never seen 
sheep in Norfolk in the places where it grows. 
I now give the records of these species. 
* In ‘Journal of Botany,’ 1S9 and 217, 1905. 
