MR. W. H. BURRELL OX GOODYERA REPENS. 
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IV. 
GOODYERA RE PENS, Br. 
By W. H. Burrell, F.L.S. 
Read 30 th November, 1909. 
Goodyera repens was first found in Norfolk by Miss 
Southwell, at Westwick, in July, 1885 (Trans., vol. iv. 
p. 255). The late Mr. H. D. Geldart reported in 1900 that it 
had been exterminated at Westwick, but that in the meantime 
Miss A. M. Barnard had found it in abundance in the 
neighbourhood of Holt (Trans., vol. v. p. 329). In 1902 
Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell recorded Goodyera in abundance in the 
parish of Bodham ; and in poor condition two years previously 
on Beeston Regis common (Journ. Bot., vol. xl. p. 325). 
In July, 1909, Mr. J. P. G. Draper identified specimens 
found by Mrs. Draper on heathland at Sheringham, which 
I had the opportunity of seeing under their guidance in the 
following month. There were two clusters, 100 yards apart, 
with a road between, on what has 'probably been waste land 
from a remote period. That the conditions were not con- 
genial may be inferred from the dwarf state of the flowering 
spikes, which were four inches high compared with an average 
of ten inches in pine woods near Holt ; they had failed to 
break from the shelter of the heather, and were so well 
hidden from view, that it was with considerable difficulty 
they were located with the aid of cross bearings. Later in 
August another specimen reached me, which had been found 
near Holt by Mr. E. Watkin. 
I do not know how nearly the several records from Holt 
and Bodham refer to the same spot, but I suspect there is 
one principal area, with at least one outlying station half 
a mile distant. In what I term the principal area, where 
