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in rare aquatics, and in such as love to grow on the brink of deep 

 waters. 



Nat. Ord. Papaverace^. — Chelidonium majus is very common 

 about Ranworth and Aldeby. 



Rcemeria hybrida : this plant is not peculiar to Cambridge- 

 shire, as stated in the ^ Phytologist ' for April, 1861, p. 124; 

 it is found in several places in Norfolk, though nowhere very 

 plentiful, as at Fritton, two miles from Loag Stratton (see ' Phy- 

 tologist ' for August, 1861, p. 255). Hudson's authority is con- 

 firmed as far as it probably can be by a manuscript account, 

 penes me, of a specimen of Glaucium phoeniceum from this very 

 locality, preserved in the herbarium of a Llangollen botanist. 

 This veteran recommended a renewed search for the plant ; but 

 the search was productive of no result but disappointment. 



Nat. Ord. Crucifer^. — Cakile maritima grows on the sea- 

 shore, between Yarmouth and Lowestoft. 



Hutchinsia petraa, which is found on the ruins of St. Bene- 

 dict's Abbey?, Norwich, is another rarity, and an example of a 

 very local species. But this fact, which is new to science, though 

 not to nature, is corroborative proof of the genuineness of the 

 Eltham locality for this plant. Let the assumption be granted 

 that the monastic orders planted and propagated many foreign 

 plants, this was not one of a sort which they would be likely to 

 patronize, for it is neither useful nor ornamental ; and like many 

 other minute rupestral or mural plants, it is not very readily 

 naturalized. It is not improbable that its apparent predilec- 

 tions for the western parts of England originate in its finding 

 there both a moister climate and a more rocky surface. 



Teesdalia nudicaulis is not scarce on banks near the sea, about 

 Yarmouth and Lowestoft. In this locality it was in flower last 

 season, 1860, on the 16th June. (It was in flower at least two 

 months earlier on Barnes Common, near London.) 



Lepidiu'in latifolium, in salt-marshes by Breydon, in this dis- 

 trict, and at Reedham, but sparingly. The history of this plant 

 in England tells a doleful tale to the lovers of British botany, 

 and forebodes the total disappearance of this species. About 

 a century ago it was not uncommon in the marshes and about 

 the creeks near Faversham, in Kent. It has not been seen 

 there, or, more correctly, no record of its appearance there has 

 been published, for probably more than half a century. Lepl- 



