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NOTES ON NORFOLK PLANTS. 

 By W. Winter. 



Nat. Orel. RANUNCULACEiE. — Thalidrum minus I find about 

 Cortin, in Suffolk?, about three miles from Lowestoft; also at 

 Garlestone ; in both places sparingly, on sandhills. 



Anemone j'anunculoides. This very rare species has been long 

 known to grow in various woods, meadows, and even by road- 

 sides, in Norfolk (see ' Phytologist ^ for September, 1861). The 

 learned author of the ' English Flora,' though connected with 

 this county (Norfolk), does not refer to any of the stations which 

 have been long known, but only recently published. He asserts 

 the true nativity of the plant in strong terms : — " This having 

 never, as far as can be learned from old writers, been a garden 

 plant in England, cannot safely be asserted to have escaped from 

 gardens. I have wild specimens from the excellent author of the 

 ' Flora Anglica,' and from the late Mr. G. Anderson, two men 

 whose accuracy and judgment are as unimpeachable as their 

 honesty" (Eug. Fl. vol. iii. pp. 38, 39). Sir J. E. Smith enters 

 King's Langley, Herts, and Wrotham, Kent, on the authority 

 of Hudson ; and Abbot's Langley on that of Mr. G. Anderson. 

 SirW. J. Hooker quotes these three stations without the authority, 

 and subjoins "scarcely a native." Honourable knights occa- 

 sionally differ, as do learned doctors. It is worthy of remark 

 that both the honourables were, at all events in early life, con- 

 nected with Norfolk, if not natives of this county. Mr. Daw- 

 son Turner, another botanical notability, does not appear to have 

 been aware of the existence of this rarity in his native county. 



This Anemone has very recently been detected in another 

 locality in Herts, but several miles from either of its two re- 

 corded stations. The writer of this has seen a specimen which 

 grew at Scot's Bridge^ near Rickmansworth. In this last- 

 mentioned locality there is abundance of the plant, associated 

 with the blue Anemone, A. apennina, which is said to grow at 

 Wimbledon, but on authority not unimpeachable (see Eng. Fl. 

 p. 38). "In Wimbledon woods (where it still grows). Mi-. Rand." 

 Hooker says, " In Wimbledon w^oods, growing with Eranthis 

 hyemalis." I have seen it in Wimbledon garden growing with 

 the winter Aconite {E. hyemalis), and I should like much to see 



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