-MR. A. BENNETT ON EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 687 
1 he chief topic of discussion was the means to be adopted 
for preserving our fauna and flora from extinction. Un- 
fortunately there was a commercial value in plants which 
rendered them constantly liable to be taken both for public 
and private wants. A resolution was adopted, “ Urging 
upon local societies the necessity of preserving the fauna and 
flora of their respective districts as against wanton destruction 
or careless or needless collecting.” 
IV. 
EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 
By Mr. A. Bennett, F.L.S. 
Read 27th October, 1908. 
The four species I now remark on will make some twenty 
species so treated, the whole mostly related to the East Anglian 
counties. 
It has brought together such records and remarks as were 
accessible to me ; but there must be much more matter to be 
searched out, and I trust that any member who may come 
across any reference to any of these species (other than 
recorded in these papers) will make a note of it. 
Our plants are described over and over again, but nothing 
is added in the historical way. It has always been a matter 
of regret that Sir Joseph Hooker did not carryout his idea of 
an ‘ Historical Account of the British Flora,’ mentioned in 
the 1st ed. of his ‘ Student’s Flora.’ 
While of their ‘ Life Histories ’ we have very little account, 
vet the differences that can be seen between closely allied 
species when cultivated are most remarkable. Some can be 
identified on the appearance of the second leaf in seedlings. 
