346 MR. A. BENNETT ON SILENE OTITES, ARTEMISIA CAMPESTRIS, 
Norfolk W. V. Co. 28. 
Near Narford in the way to Narboro’, and the whole way 
in the lane from Narford, as well as both sides of the Swaffham 
road by Sir H. Peyton’s house. FI. Ang. Crowe in Hudson’s 
Flora on margin cir. 1780. Narborough, 1845. Wardale sp. 
Between Swaffham and Narford on the grassy edges 
of the road ; Woodward Bot. Guide, 432, 1805. 
At Barton Bendish on the Swaffham road ; Rev. R. 
Forby, l.c. 
A little way out of Thetford on the way to Norwich. 
D. Turner, l.c. 
Thetford ; E. F. Linton, 1886. Brandon on the way to 
Hillborough ; T. Martyn before 1825. Hillborough ; Rev. E. 
W. Dowell. Cranwich ; Trimmer, FI. Norf. 22. 1866. 
Ickburgh, Eccles ; Trimmer supp. 14, 1884. Croxton and 
Brettenham. Rev. H. Williams. 
Cambridge Co. 29. 
Chippenham on the balks* plentifully. Relhan, FI. 
Camb. 175. 1820. 
Plentiful at the Chippenham gravel pits, 1894-6, and close 
to the county boundary between Fordham and Freckenham. 
1896. W. West, Junr. J. of Botany, 250, 1898. 
Essex N. V. Co. 19. 
Roman wall at Colchester; R. A. Pryor. J. of Botany. 
344, 1880. Top of the walls of Colchester Castle (about 
i mile from the last station) ; W. Whitwell. J. of Botany, 
56, 1887. A. Crosfield, sp. 
“ Was introduced by local lepidopterists as food for their 
caterpillars.” J. C. Shenstone, Essex Nat., 24, 1887. 
Reported also from Cardigan, Durham (ballast), N. E. 
Yorkshire Sp. in Middleton herbarium. Baker, North 
Yorkshire, 268, 1889. 
Distribution : — 
Denmark, Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, 
Austria, Russia, Siberia, Persia, Turcomania. 
* Slender lines of ancient turf used to divide the fields, and the native flora 
long remained on them after it had become extinct in other places. FI. of 
Cambridge, p. xv., i860. 
