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AND FERNS. 28 
The proportional numbers of the two great 
classes, mono and dicotyledonous, appear to be 
different from those usual in the vegetation of 
Europe; the proportional number of monocotyle- 
donous being higher than usual. According to 
my list, the monocotyledons are between one- 
fourth and one- third of the total number of 
phanerogams. 
This peculiarity appears to be owing to the 
large number of cyperaceae and grasses in my 
list, the number of these two families together 
amounting to 73. 
The plants which I have found growing wild at 
Mildenhall amount to about 430 species, some few 
of them I have not found strictly in the parish of 
Mildenhall, but a little way outside of its limits, in 
those of Eriswell, Barton Mills, or Tuddenham. 
Only to of these 430 are vascular cryptogams, 
the rest phanerogamous. Of the 410, 114 are 
monocotyledonous, 303 dicotyledonous. In fact, 
however, both the the total number of phanero- 
gams, and the number of dicotyledons are greater 
than here set down; several species probably 
ought to be added to the genus salix. 
