NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS BADGER IN FRITTON WOOD. On Monday, 8th March, 1 9 7 1 , an adult female badger was found near Keepers Cottage, Fritton Wood, near Lowestoft. Unfortunately the gamekeeper had to shoot the animal as it had been caught in a fox trap, of which there are many in the wood. According to local knowledge, badgers have not been seen in this area before. CLODAGH JONES, The Mill, Lound, Lowestoft.
A PLANT N E W TO SUFFOLK. Düring October, 1969, Mr. H. E. Jenner of Lowestoft brought to my notice a stränge plant growing on the green sward by the car park, just south of the Fisheries Laboratory, Pakefield. Dr. E. A. Ellis of Surlingham identified it as Salpichroa origanifolia, a member of the Solanaceae family, and a native of eastern South America. Dr. Ellis told me that the plant grows in the Channel Islands and has been introduced to a few places along the South Coast of England. He believed the plant could have been introduced accidentally to Pakefield by seed. I visited the patch on 12th October, 1971, and found that the plant had spread considerably since 1969 and was growing well amongst the mallow and buckthorn plantain. Apparently it is hardy enough to survive the East Anglian winters and the feet of many visitors who must tread, unwittingly, on it. CLODAGH JONES,
The Mill, Lound, Lowestoft.
MOLLUSCS AT REDGRAVE FEN. Though there are a number of records of molluscs found at, e.g., "Redgrave", we know of no list of those definitely taken on the Lopham-Redgrave Fen Reserve of the Suffolk Trust for Nature Conservation. Between us we have visited the Fens on four occasions and it seems worthwhile putting on record the following obviously incomplete list of those that we have found. We have not worked all together as a team, the Pisidia were identified by Dr. M. A. P. Kerney, the remainder by the one of us or those of us who found them: none is so unusual as to demand a second opinion where only one of us found it. Viviparus fasciatus Valvata piscinalis Bithynia tentaculata Carychium minimum agg Lymnaea truncatula L. peregra Planorbis corneus P. planorbis P. vortex P. leucostoma
*Cepaea nemoralis Hygromia striolata H. hispidia Punctum pygmaeum Euconulus fulvus Vitrea crystalina V. contracta Oxychilus cellarius O. alliarius Retinella radiatula
• T h e rose-red bandless variety of Cepaea nemoralis was found in the w o o d on the northern boundary, the typical five banded variety down by the river.