NORFOLK NOTES 269 



ture Hottonia rather than Utricularia. Hibernation is effected 

 by winter buds, which often remain visible at the base of the new 

 growth throughout the summer ; one fiower was seen. 



Malaxis ])(^lii^dosa has been seen in Norfolk on several occa- 

 sions since the latter part of the eighteenth century. Dawson 

 Turner recorded it for Cawston Heath and Felthorpe Bog, in the 

 Botanist's Guide, 1805. The Norfolk Tour, 1829, mentions Burgh 

 Castle, near Yarmouth. Flora Britannica added Holt and Edge- 

 field ; Kirby Trimmer's Flora, 1866, added Stratton Strawless, 

 and Miss Barnard found it at Roydon Fen in 1881, all the stations 

 being in East Norfolk. There are so many suitable places, difficult 

 of access, where it might flourish unseen, that it seemed an 

 assured prize for diligent search, and w^e received our reward last 

 July, when after a determined hunt covering three seasons we met 

 with a colony in which we counted fifty plants. Half a dozen 

 were minutely examined ; the largest was six inches high, with 

 twenty-two expanded flowers and eleven buds ; the smallest four 

 and a half inches high, with thirteen flowers and seven buds. 

 Special attention was paid to the substratum ; Sowerby said it 

 was found growing in sphagnous bogs, and it is more or less 

 generally accepted that Malaxis is epiphytic upon Sphagnum. It 

 is worth noting that Sphagnum grows oq nearly all the areas 

 where Malaxis has been seen in Norfolk, but our plants in the west 

 division were seated on Hypnum stellatum and H. scorpioides, and 

 in no case were they associated with Sphagnum. It would seem 

 that the same may apply to Liparis, as on the two occasions 

 when we have seen it, it was in the neighbourhood of Sphagnum 

 but Hypnum was the associated moss. 



We had the good fortune to find a strong colony of Veronica 

 spicata near Thetford, in v.-c. 28, extending the range of this 

 handsome flower from Cambridge, Hampshire and Sufi'olk. Mr. 

 Arthur Bennett has been good enough to confirm the identifica- 

 tion, and he tells us that the old record for West Norfolk was an 

 error, the specimen so named in the British Museum being 

 Veronica officinalis. The spikes varied considerably — one in a 

 sunny position was two and a half inches long, with flowers too 

 dense and numerous to count accurately, but approximating to one 

 hundred ; another, growing in shade, was one and three quarters 

 inch long with only thirty laxly-arranged flowers. 



Artemisia campestris has been known in Norfolk since the 

 third decade of the eighteenth century. Several strong colonies 

 occur in West Suffolk, but it had not been seen north of the Little 

 Ouse since 1885, and doubt had been expressed as to whether it 

 still survived in Norfolk. We have carefully examined the Thet- 

 ford and Blickling localities without success, but after several 

 attempts, one of us (W. G. C.) refound it in its Cranwich station 

 in August last, where, judging ])y its surroundings and its appear- 

 ance, there is reason to hope it will maintain itself indefinitely. 



Heliantheinum Chamcecistus, Silene Otites, Medicago falcata, 

 M. minima, and Asperula cynanchica were seen in many places ; a 

 single plant of Achillea Ptarmica was seen in Feltwell Fen ; 



