MR. A. BENNETT ON EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 
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Ray’s locality of “Aberafon ” seems dubious as to county, 
first given as Glamorgan and after as Merioneth, but at 
Aberafon in Glamorganshire “ there is plenty of ground 
which would suit the plant.” Rev. H. J. Riddesdell in litt., 
12, 8, 1905. 
In cultivation this plant is very difficult to keep ; when 
young it is very fragile and requires support, and unless it is 
surrounded by water it is impossible to keep slugs and snails 
from it, as they will travel over tar to get to it. In its native 
place it grows with such robust plants as Rumex Hydro- 
lapathum. 
My experience of S. palustris is, that the larger the radical 
leaves are, the more they are cut. and you can find plants 
from nearly entire leaves to those quite jagged within a short 
distance of each other. In a letter dated 10th May, 1910, 
Mr. Evans, of Cambridge, writes that he has lately searched 
the East Norfolk localities for S. palustris without success. 
* Liparis Loeselii, Rich. 
Sir J. E. Smith in Rees’ Cyclopedia, Vol. 22, remarks — 
“The late Mr. Pitchford, who first met with this species in 
Norfolk (1767), exchanged the only specimen with Mr. Light- 
foot for above 60 of the rarest British plants.” Miss A. 
Geldart in litt. 
The two following names occur in British Floras which I 
did not mention : — Pseudorchis Loeselii , Gray, Nat. An. Brit. 
PI. (1821), 213. Ophrys lilifolia, Hudson FI. Angl. (1798), 389. 
In Trans, lc. , Lopham Fen is put under West Suffolk, but it 
is in East Norfolk. It was gathered in Roydon Fen, Diss, in 
1847, by Mr. C. Prentice.t 
In Gibson’s Flora of Essex (1862), 451, is a note taken from 
a letter of Edward Forster’s, 1848: — “ Mr. Borrer has rather 
alarmed me about IAparis Loeselii , he says he could only 
reach it by jumping a marsh ditch with a pole.” 
* Transactions, Yol. VII. (1902), p. 333. 
t Phytologist, 2 (1847), 612. 
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