12 NOTES OX THE MARINE BOTANY OF THE COAST OF NORFOLK. 



king of birds, where, for hundreds of years, generation after generation of 

 them has dwelt and still dwells securely, out of the reach of the most daring 

 of their human enemies. 



When upon the rugged crest of Mangerton, two thousand seven hundred 

 feet high, I hoped to have found some alpiae plants, but, alas! the heavens 

 became unpropitious, and I was soon enveloped in a dense cloud, and driven 

 along by the furious wind. Not so pleasant a mode of conveyance is this cloudy 

 chariot as poets would have us believe. — 



"At Venus obscuro gradientcs atirc scpsit 

 Et multo ucbula) circum Dca fudit aniictu 

 Cernere ne quis cos, ncu quis contingcre posset, 

 Molirive moram, aut vcnicndi posuerc causas. — Virg: JEn: i., 415. 



The "pelting of the pitiless storm" drove everything to shelter except myself 

 and a few Plovers. Shelter for me was not so easily found, but at length 

 I managed to get under lee of the rocks which surround the Devil's Punch- 

 bowl, a remarkable lake which supplies the Tore waterfall, and is situated at 

 an altitude of two thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea. 

 It is said that this water, although always very cold, (and I can testify to 

 its frigidity in June,) never freezes, and no fish are found in it. Good Trout 

 fishing, is to be had, however, in the stream which goes from it to the Tore. 

 Salmon, too, is abundant in the lakes; and those who enjoy the luxury of 

 a meal off this delicate fish half-an-hour after he has been careering in his 

 native element, will nowhere get it in greater perfection than on the banks 

 of Lough Lene. I would not, however, conclude these remarks by appealing 

 to such grosser feelings, but would congratulate those who have availed 

 themselves of the facility afforded during the past summer for a visit to this 

 majestic spot; and those who have not been I would yet congratulate, that 

 in all probability the same facility, owing to the success with which the 

 arrangements appear to have been crowned, will be offered in all probability 

 in the following and future summers. 



Blachlicath, 1852. 



NOTES ON THE MARINE BOTANY OF THE 

 COAST OF NORFOLK. 



BY C. II. D. 



The following notes on the Algse of the coast of Norfolk, perhaps may 

 not prove unacceptable to the readers of ^'The Naturalist," not only from 

 the interest which is attached to this portion of the Botanical science, but 

 from the fact that many of our rarest species have been first found on this 

 coast, among which I may mention Culleria muUiJida, Naccaria Wigghii, 

 Taonia atomaria, and others, most of which were discovered by the distinguished 

 Algologists Mr. Dawson Turner and Mr. Wigg. The coast of Norfolk also 

 presents that variety of locality which renders its Marine Botany so peculiarly 



