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BOTANY reclamation has disappeared from our county as it apparently has from Bucks ; the buck's-horn plantain [Plantago Coronopus) has not been recently found, but is recorded for all the bordering counties except Hunts ; the Lancashire asphodel {Narthecium ossifragum), an inhabitant of peaty bogs, has never been recorded for Northants, Oxford or Leicester ; the sea club-rush {Scirpus maritimus), as its name implies, is usually found near the coast, but it has also been found in ditches of brackish water in Warwickshire, Hunts and Cambridge ; the deer's grass (S. caspitosus)^ a native of peaty moors, very rare in Warwick, but is recorded for Beds, Cambridge, Lincoln and Leicester, though probably now extinct in the latter county ; the hare's-tail cotton grass [Eriphorutn vaginatum) , a native of boggy heathland, recorded for Lincoln, Leicester and Warwick; the brittle bladder-fern [Cystopteris fragilis) does not appear to be native to Northants, Oxford or Warwick, but is possibly so in Leicester ; and the fir club-moss [Lycopodium Selago), found in Bucks, Oxford and Leicester, but said to be extinct in Warwick. Of the native plants of Britain other than purely maritime, which are recorded for not fewer than sixty or more than eighty Watsonian vice- counties, several are absent, but of the absentees only the hairy buttercup {Ranunculus sardous), reported from Hunts, Cambridge, Lincoln, Leices- ter and Warwick ; the pearlwort [Sagina subulatd), found in Bucks ; the bloody cranesbill {Geranium sanguineum), a doubtful native to Beds ; the tiny all-seed {Millegrana Radiola), found in Bucks, Warwick, Lincoln, Leicester and Oxford ; the small trefoil {Trifolium Jiliforme), found in all the bordering counties except Lincoln ; the golden saxifrage {Chrysosple- nium alternifolium), recorded from Warwick, Lincoln and Leicester ; the Alexanders {Smyrnium Olusatrum), usually an alien inland ; the marsh hawk's-beard {Crepis pa/udosa), essentially a northern plant which does not extend further south than Warwick and Leicester ; the cranberry {Oxycoccos quadripetala), found in Lincoln, Warwick and Hunts, but is extinct in Cambridgeshire ; the cowberry, a northern plant, extends into Warwickshire ; the winter-green {Pyrola minor), recorded for all the bordering counties except Hunts, Leicester and Cambridge ; the chaff- weed {Centunculus minimus), not recorded for Hunts, Lincoln or Leices- ter ; the small periwinkle {Vinca minor), not native to Northants ; the small bladderwort {TJtricularia minor), reported from Beds, Hunts, Cam- bridge and Warwick ; the small skull-cap {Scutellaria minor) occurs in Oxford, Bucks, Lincoln, Leicester and Warwick ; the crowberry (£ot- petrum nigrum), formerly in Charnwood Forest, Leicester, and still in Warwickshire ; the pondweed {Potamogeton gramineus or heterophyllus) is recorded for Hunts, Cambridge, Lincoln and Leicester, and may reward the searcher in some of our fen dykes ; the sedge {Carex lavigata) occurs in Leicester and Warwick ; the grey sedge (C. canescens) recorded for Warwick, Cambridge, Bucks and Leicester, but not recently found in the two latter counties ; the oak fern {Phegopteris Dryopteris), found locally in Bucks and Oxford, are the species which have been reported for the counties which border Northamptonshire. 49