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mon on hedge-banks on each side of the road, and in the hedges 

 Evonymus europmis is frequent. On a bank to the right, about 

 halfway between Wortham Green and Redgrave church, I found 

 a few specimens of Dipsacus pilosus, which plant also grows by the 

 side of another road in the same neighbonrhood. In Redgrave 

 churchyard grow Galium vermn and Salvia verbenaca, and in 

 the immediate neighbourhood is an abundance of that handsome 

 plant, Verbascum nigrum. 



Before leaving the neighbourhood of the church, I would sug- 

 gest that the botanist forsakes his particular avocations for a few 

 minutes, for the purpose of inspecting the interior of the building, 

 which contains two such monuments as few country churches can 

 boast : one of them is to the memory of Sir Nicholas Bacon 

 (the Premier Baronet) and his wife, and the other to that of Chief 

 Justice Sir John Holt ; both former owners of Redgrave Hall. 

 Continuing along the road beyond the church a short distance, 

 brings one to a footpath on the right, which leads directly through 

 several fields to the Fen. In these fields the following plants are 

 to be met with: — Orobanche minor, Cicho7'ium Intybus, Reseda 

 Luteola, R. lutea, Sarothanmus scoparius, Carduus nutans, Sca- 

 biosa arvensis, Trifolium procumbens, T. arvense, Hyjiericum, 

 several kinds, Linaria vulgaris, and Echium vulgare. Rosa ru- 

 higinosa is very plentiful in a hedge bordering on the Fen. 



Arrived on the Fen itself, the first plant which attracts one's 

 attention, at this season especially, is Parnassia palustris, which 

 is abundant there. Bearing to the right from the spot where I 

 entered the Fen (on the side nearest to Redgrave church), and 

 continuing two hundred yards or so, and at a short distance from 

 a small fir plantation, I found several plants of the Orchid family 

 in an immature state, which was, doubtless, either Malaxis palu- 

 dosa or Liparis Loeselii. I have heard that the latter plant has 

 been found in this district. On the border of the fir plantation 

 alluded to, I found a qviantity of a plant of the Aster tribe, very 

 much resembling, in its foliage and mode of growth, the Michael- 

 mas Daisy of the gardens, the blossom being purple with a yel- 

 low disk. The plant has every appearance of being wild, and I 

 found it in the same place some fifteen years since ; it is not de-' 

 scribed in any botanical work to which I Iiave referred. I will 

 not particularize the localities in which I found the other Fen 

 plants, as they were distributed generally either in the pools or 



