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is flooded only at the highest spring tides and terminates ina 
cliff about four feet high. The higher ground provides better 
pasture than the land recently enclosed below Sunk Island, 
whilst the mud is covered at every tide and consequently 
grows nothing. There is no intermediate zone suitable for 
the growth of the Sea Lavender. This, however, is furnished 
by the sloping banks of the Fleet Drain outfall and Hedon 
Haven, and in the latter, I was delighted to find Statice in 
bloom amongst the Aster in August, this year. There is very 
little, and I should not have found it had not a common sand- 
piper, resenting my inquisitiveness, led me to that part of the 
Haven and so diverted my attention from himself. 
From Paull to the bend of Sunk Island includes the 
‘‘Marshes below Keyingham.” There is no salt marsh there 
now. Cherry Cob Sands was reclaimed at the commence- 
ment of the last century and though Aster grows in profusion 
along its ditches and ponds there is no Sea Lavender inland. 
The grassy area outside the bank, on which Artemisia 
maritima flourishes, is similar to the one mentioned above, 
though much more extensive—2oo yards wide in some places 
—and rather drier. A narrow creek intersecting the broader 
part in all directions furnishes the Statice zone, but I have 
sought in vain in all its branches. The usual abrupt drop 
from grass to mud is the more surprising here in view of the 
more recent reclamation, for there must have been a con- 
tinuous slope when the bank was made. 
In the bend to the east of Sunk Island, a true salt marsh 
existed till recently, but within the last few years a bank has 
been built from Sunk Island to Welwick, enclosing nearly the 
whole. It is still salt marsh, without the water. I frequently 
walked along the bank during its construction but never 
Saw any Statice, though I have no doubt now that it did occur. 
In the portion left outside, there are two small tufts, one off 
Sunk Island and the other opposite Welwick. If the usual 
cliff forms here, now that the coast line is straightened, the 
plant will no doubt disappear. 
From Welwick to Spurn we have either a low cliff pro- 
tected by timber, or a sloping sandy beach. The flats lie too 
low; aslight elevation of the Spurn bend would probably pro- 
duce the plant in abundance. On the outer coast, only two 
places invited investigation. Below Barmston, the drain outfall 
proved quite unsuitable, what shore there was consisting of 
hard clay. North of Barmston, the mouth of the Earl’s Dyke 
is an ideal locality, but there is no Statice. I was the more 
disappointed as my sister picked up the inflorescence on the 
