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MR. A. BENNETT ON EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 
The Rev. WoodrufFe-Peacock* gives two districts (17, 18) 
of South Lincoln as having produced the S. palustris, and 
there is no reason to doubt it did occur there before the 
drainage, but we have no actual records or specimens. 
Lancashire, S. Co., 60. 
“ Copissimisine auten in fossis aquosis circa paludum 
Pillinmosse dictam in Lancashi.” Ray in Camden’s Brit., 
1695, 803. “Pillin Moss was originally some 25 square miles 
in extent, but is now reclaimed except one small piece where 
Black-headed Gulls nest.” Mr. A. Wilson in litt. It was 
said that a Preston Schoolmaster, a Mr. Reynor, had found it 
on the Moss, but Mr. Ashfield could get no confirmation of 
this.t 
Yorkshire. 
“ Conyza foliis lacinatus, sive C. Helenites. A stone’s cast 
from the east end of Shirley Poole near Rushie-moore, 
belonging to Mr. Darcy Washington, in Yorkshire.” Mr. 
Heaton in How’s Phyt. Brit. (1650), p. 30. This is two miles 
to the south of Askern, and is still very marshy, but there is 
no record since. + The above is ten years before Ray’s of 
1660. 
Westmorland, Co., 69. 
“ Hildverton Moss near Burton.” Lawson, c. 1680. Wilson 
in 1744. 
“ The Moss was drained in 1777 ” by a cut three miles long, 
four yards broad, and two yards deep. 0 
In the Naturalist (1886), p. 10. Mr. Cordeaux calls this 
“ the Giant Cineraria,” and Hudson, FI. Anglica (1798), 370, 
calls it “ Marsh Cineraria”; used, I suppose, as it was placed 
by Linmeus || in the genus Cineraria, but in his first edition 
(1753) he called it “ Othonia palustris.” 
* “ Naturalist ” (1895), p. 97. 
t “ Pliytologist,” p. 161. June, 1862. 
t Lees, FI. W., York (1880), p. 293. 
° Martindale, “ Westmorland Note Book (1888-9), p. 85. 
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