MR. A. BE NNETT ON EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 
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The Rev. J. Holme of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Vicar of 
Cherry Hinton, and Rector of Freckenham (where he died 
in 1829) livings in the gift of his College ; gathered the 
largest number of specimens of S. paludosus of anyone in this 
Fen {circa, 1800-1820). Several are still in existence, and I 
possess one. Up till the year 1833-40 the Fens below Ely 
were very wet, and mostly undrained. Padnal Fen was 
especially rich in fen species, S. paludosus occurring there. 
But Mr. Marshall observes* “ one long drought has been 
sufficient within the experience of the writer, to exterminate 
in West Fen and another near Ely, such plants as the Bog 
Pimpernel, the Fen Violet (F stagnina), the Marsh Fern, 
Sedge {Gladium) and the Sweet Gale.” 
In Prof. Babington’s Flora of Cambridge, 1860, there is a 
“ List of Wicken Fen plants.” The following additional 
species have since been gathered there. 
Rhamnus Frangula L. 
Craetaegus monogyna , Jacq. 
Potentilla sylrestris, Neck. 
Carex paradoxa, Willd. 
Calamogrostis epijegis, Roth. 
Ohara polyacantha, Braun. 
Nitella tenuissima, Kuetz. 
In the Salt Herbarian at Sheffield there is a specimen of 
S. paludosus from “Ely 31, 7, 1833,” probably gathered by 
Proff. Henslow. 
“August 11th, 1857, Newbould, Stratton, and I went in a 
dog-cart to Upware, took a man named Vipon (?) in Wicken 
Fen where he showed us a single plant with two stems of 
Senecio paludosus. ”+ 
Lincoln, L. Co., 53. N. Co., 54. 
The last person to gather S. paludosus in Lincoln was the 
Rev. T. V. Wollaston, of Scotter, and that was before 1804, at 
* “Fenland, Pist and Present” (1878), p. 297. 
t Babington, Journal of Life, (1897), p. 186. 
