FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK. 
603 
CYNIPID^E. 
I BALIA CULTELLATOR, Latr. Five examples recently captured 
about King’s Lynn, along with its host Sirex gigas 
by Mr. Atmore (Bloomfield). 
Anacharis TINCTA, Walk. One found at Ringstead Downs 
on 23rd August, 1906 (Morley). 
[For other Cynipidae, cf. Trans. Norf. Soc., vii., p. 110.] 
VI. 
ATTEMPTED ACCLIMATISATION OF WILD RICE 
( ZIZANIA AQUATIC A ) IN EAST NORFOLK. 
By The Rev. M. C. H. Bird, M.B.O.U. 
Read 29th October , 1912. 
As far back as 1880 articles and letters which appeared in 
Land and Water, on “ Wild Rice for Wildfowl,” made me 
anxious to experiment with this plant around our Broads — my 
father then owning Somerton Broad. 
The prime difficulty was to obtain seed in a suitable condition 
for sowing ; it being then, and for some twenty-five years later, 
generally supposed that if the seed once became thoroughly dry 
after ripening it would fail to germinate. In its natural habitats 
the seed of Zizania aquatica, when ripe, falls into the water, 
sinks and lies dormant, or nearly so, until the following spring ; 
and one can understand that seed, collected after it had once 
been thoroughly saturated and then allowed to become dry, 
would probably not germinate. The difficulty therefore was to 
import seed in a damp state. In 1890 a friend promised to 
send me some from Canada, but failed to do so, and it was not 
until ten years later that I was able to procure any. The Rev. 
W. Wilks then very kindly forwarded me a good supply, care- 
fully packed in wet moss, from Kew, where the plant has been 
successfully cultivated since 1899, but only after many previous 
