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tyn's 'Methodus' (1727), 71. Woods, on clay. (1) Wood
Ditton, Park Wood, wood near Bartlow, Yenhall Wood,
West Wratting, Balsham, Borley, and Westley Woods;
(3) Eversden, Kingston, and Hardwicke Woods; Hayley
Wood ; between Longstow and Bourne ; (4) Knapwell Wood,
Madgingley Wood (Ray)."
The information given in Webb & Colman's 'Flora of
Hertfordshire' (1849, p. 234) is very unsatisfactory. It is as
follows:—"What the plant of our correspondents may be we
know not, not having received specimens; but we fear our
own is nothing but an umbellated variety of P. vulgaris.
Woods, rare. (1) Woods S. of Brickendonbury; copse,
Bramfield Brook Bottom, Stanstead Thrift Wood; (6) Box
Wood, Hertford Heath, Glebe Wood, Essendon; (9) wood
near Little Heath, Haresfoot Woods; (10) St. Albans,
Laverstock Green; (11) Hitchin." Appendix III., 1859,
gives also "Coles, and between West Mill and Stonebury."
P. elatior does not occur in Middlesex or in Kent.
All the localities in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire appear to
adjoin our Essex stations. Until more satisfactory informa-
tion is obtained, I prefer to discredit all the Hertfordshire
localities, except perhaps Stanstead, which adjoins an Essex
locality. Therefore, as the Essex localities all adjoin one
another, I believe I am correct in saying that, so far as we
know at present, P. elatior is confined to a single district in
East Anglia, without any outlying stations.
Both Mr. Baker and Mr. Newbould have most kindly
assisted me with information as to the geographical distri-
bution of P. elatior outside England. It appears to grow in
Denmark, S. Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzer-
land, Central Russia, Caucasus, Siberia (to Altai and River
Yenesei), Austria, Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, Bosnia,
Herzegovina, Servia, Dalmatia, Crimea, N. Italy, France,
and N. Spain. Mr. Baker writes—" The Oxlip and the
Primrose, broadly speaking, seem to have almost the same
wide range of distribution in Europe and Asia, and the
altitudinal range of both is very wide. Why do they, then,
and especially the Oxlip, behave in such an eccentric manner