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MR. A. BENNETT ON EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 
Suffolk, W. Co. 26. 
With regard to its last appearance in Suffolk. The Rev. 
Dr. Hind in his Flora has a note, “Lost more than sixty years 
ago from the locality where Mr. Eagle discovered it in 1798.” 
I thought this might be a note by the Rev. Bloomfield, but 
he writes it is not so, and he supposes it to be by Dr. Hind. 
If so, taking the date at 1889, sixty years from that leaves the 
date at 1829. There were three Fens at Lakenheath, Laken- 
heath Mow Fen, L. Stallard Fen, and L. Common Fen. I 
suppose ‘Mow’ to mean the one reserved for rough hay, 
‘Common’ for pasturage in common, but ‘Stallard’ I have 
failed to identify, unless it has to do with horses, or has some 
special local meaning. In the Herbarium of the York Phil. 
Soc. there is a specimen from “ Lakenheath Fen, 1800, Rev. 
J. Dalton.” Altogether I know of 29 specimens of this rare 
species in British Herbaria. 
Norfolk, W. Co. 28. 
Redmore Fen, where Mr. Marshall of Ely gathered paludosus 
(circa 1833-40), adjoined the River Brandon, or Little Ouse, 
and was in the neighbourhood of the Suffolk Fens where it 
occurred. Redmore Fen is now divided into three Farms, 
and all trace of the old fen plants gone. I have vainly tried 
to trace a Norfolk specimen, but Mr. Marshall never gave 
exact localities with the Fen plants that he distributed. 
Cambridge. Co. 29. 
Wicken Fen the last refuge of so many Fen insects, that 
formerly abounded at Whittlesea, Yaxley, Holme, etc., and 
where » S', paludosus was fairly plentiful ; it is very gratifying 
to find that portions of it have been acquired by the National 
Trust. There is still a small piece of Fen-land at Wimbling- 
ton-in-the-Firclats,also at Chippenham, and a very small piece 
at Stalode Wash in Suffolk, between Burnt Fen and Laken- 
heath Stations. 
