MR. A. BENNETT ON LIPARIS LCESELII. 
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In subsequent letters to myself he describes the locality, 
giving the species it was associated with (many of these he 
left out in his record, as it would have too definitely indicated 
the place), and the nature of the ground. In May, 1906, 
my correspondent, Mr. H. H. Knight, wrote me it had been 
found in Carmarthen, giving the finder’s name, Mr. Barker. 
Mr. Barker most kindly sent me a full description of the place 
and the principal plants occurring there, with a tracing of 
two of the specimens gathered in 1898. The tracing at once 
showed that the specimens were similar to the Glamorgan 
ones ; differing from our East Anglian in being smaller with 
shorter and broader leaves, and of course less number of 
flowers, in all these agreeing well with those of the Friesian 
Islands, whence I have specimens sent me by Drs. Buchenan 
and Focke of Bremen. 
And the place of growth is just what is given in the Dutch 
and German Floras of these islands. It has been generally 
supposed among British botanists that Liparis was epiphytic 
upon Sphagnum, but Mr. Fryer sending to Mr. Ridley,* 
many specimens of our native species, speaks of finding it 
growing directly on clay, though rarely. Since then he has 
found it on peat. “ One specimen I got was a foot high, 
rooted in black peat, but I think the Sphagnum had decayed 
because the spot was too long overflowed in winter.”! 
And I have seen it near Thurne, away from the moss. In 
Carmarthen and Glamorgan no Peucedanum palustre or 
Lathyrus palustris occurred with the Li pan's, but they do so 
in the Friesian Islands, and they are generally not far off in 
East Anglia. 
Mr. Riddelsdell remarks, “ The sandy bottom just at the 
spot is remarkably spongy, and resilient to the foot, not so 
elsewhere in the hollow.” 
In the Friesian Islands it occurs with Pyrola rotundifolia, 
and minor v. arenaria , Parnassia, Carex trinervis, Goodenovii, 
acuta and Oederi, Hierochloe borealis, Erythrcea pulchella, and 
* 1 Monograph of Liparis.’ Jour. Linn. Soc. xxii. 2.J4--297, 1S87. 
t Letter, 20th July, 1885. 
