290 NOTES ON NORFOLK PLANTS. [OctobeV, 



it growing iu Wimbledon woods. N.B. The fact of its growth 

 in Wimbledon woods is not at all startling, but the authority is 

 not sufficient for the establishment of its sylvan station. 



One of the Norfolk localities for this rare plant is in the 

 grounds of Wheatacre Rectory, a place about three miles from 

 Gillingham. 



In ' Cybele/ vol. i. p. 75, there occurs the following notice of 

 this species : — " Alien. Scarcely a naturalized plant in Britain, 

 though introduced into Hudson's ' Flora Anglica,' and retained 

 by succeeding authors. The counties of Kent, Hertford, Suf- 

 folk, Salop, and Nottingham have been indicated for this species ; 

 that of Berwick turning out to be an error, through the mistaking 

 of Ranunculus auricomus for the present plant." 



This, it must be admitted, is an odd mistake, and probably is 

 a rare example of taking for granted what any discoverer would 

 ivish to be true ; but it is not a solitary mistake. In the work, 

 wherein it is so considerately and kindly recorded, there are 

 many such evidences of overweening confidence in the observa- 

 tive, reflective, and ratiocinative abilities of the amiable author. 



In Leighton's 'Flora of Shropshire/ the plant is localized, 

 " Woods ; rare. Badger Dingle, H. Bidivell, Esq. !" 



A remark on the situation of Badger Dingle may be useful to 

 some plant-hunters. 



This locality is the station of more rare plants, though not of 

 any so rare as the yellow Anemone, viz. of Geranium lucidwn, 

 which is entered on Mr. BidwelPs authority; also of Chryso- 

 splenium oppositifolium, and others of less note. Its situation is 

 five miles south-east of Shiffhal. See 'Flora of Shropshire,' 

 pp. 186, 256, 331, 534, etc. 



Trollius europceus is found at Norton, but it is rare. 



This will constitute an item in some future supplement to the 

 ' Cybele Britannica ;' or, as the learned Secretary of the Thirsk 

 Natural History Society elegantly and truly describes such 

 awkward facts, "new to the Ouse province." Though it has pro- 

 bably grown there ever since the eastern lowlands, Norfolk and 

 all, emerged from the humid lap of old mother Thetis. 



Aquilegia vulgaris occurs sparingly in woods about Ranworth, 

 a very wild tract of country, and an obscure village about nine 

 miles from Norwich, intersected by sluggish rivers, or dikes or 

 drives (the provincial names of huge open drains) , and abounding 



