322 NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK BOTANY. [ISfovember , 



A. short distance will bring one to tlie road leading to the 

 Glebe Farm^ belonging to the Rectory of Burgate ; and in the 

 field next the road may be found an abundance of Hahenar'ia vi- 

 ridis, while in the pasture-field beyond the farm-house, and also 

 in the field adjoining to and south of the Rectory garden I have 

 frequently found Ophrys apifera. 



After passing the Rectory^ the road leading to Burgate church 

 is shortly reached ; and I should here advise a divergence from 

 the direct road to the Fen as far as Burgate wood^ which is 

 situated a little beyond the church, and contains many scarce 

 and interesting plants. 



One of the chief of these is Pulmonaria officinalis, which is 

 tolerably plentiful, and, I should say, certainly wild. It grows 

 on the left of one of the principal openings through the wood ; 

 I found it in the same place as much as twenty years ago, and 

 also during my late visit. 



The greatly lamented Professor Henslow does not include this 

 plant in his ' Flora of Suffolk,' and, indeed, gives few or no ha- 

 bitats of plants in this part of the county. I fully intended to 

 write to the Professor relative to the Pulmonaria and two or 

 three other Burgate plants ; but the news of his death prevented 

 my doing so. 



Neottia nidus-avis, Melampyrum cristatum, Scutellaria galericu- 

 lata, Habenaria bifolia, Paris quadrifolia; Peplis Portula, Lytlirum 

 Salicaria, and many other plants will, at the proper seasons, re- 

 ward a search of Burgate wood. 



There are several ways from the wood to Wortham Green, 

 across which the road to the Fen passes. By the direct road from 

 Mellis to Wortham, Sison Amomum is frequently to be met with ; 

 indeed, it is very general here, and is a common weed in the Rec- 

 tory garden at Burgate. Convolvulus sepium and Humulus Lu- 

 pulus are very frequent and graceful ornaments of hedges in Bur- 

 gate. Ononis arvensis is abundant by the side of the road near 

 Wortham Green. Sagina nodosa grows on the right-hand side 

 of the Green ; and Potamogeton densus and Hydrocharis Morsus- 

 ran(R are abundant in the same locality. Further on, in a hedge 

 to the left, Tamus communis and Bryonia dioica are frequent, 

 and Verbascum Thapsus is not otherwise. 



After leaving Wortham Green, Calamintha Clinopodium and 

 C. officinalis {C. acinos, in a cornfield near the Fen) arc com- 



