36 A day's collecting at LOWESTOFT, [February, 



Pakefield I left the beach and betook myself to the high-road ; 

 in the hedges and ditches of which, Pimpinella magna, Sison 

 Amonium, and Lotus major abounded ; in damp hedges I had the 

 pleasure of finding Dipsacus pilosus, a plant I had never before 

 seen alive. On waste ground by the wayside I gathered Sisym- 

 brium Sophia, Carduus tenuiflorus, Onopordum Acanthium, and a 

 variety with white flowers of Carduus nutans. Looking over the 

 gate of a field, a fine plant of Silybum Marianum gladdened my 

 eyes. This I think by far the handsomest of the British Thistles. 

 I did not put it in my vasculum, but carried it home in my hand, 

 and it has made fine specimens. I found also in this field Ery- 

 simum cheiranthoides, which is by no means a common plant at 

 Lowestoft. 



In fields near Carlton Colville, a village to the west of Lowes- 

 toft, I collected Centaurea Scabiosa, Melilotus officinalis, Tri- 

 foliumfragiferum, etc., and, in sandy turnip-fields, Diplotaxis mu- 

 ralis, a very common plant here. I now crossed the Waveney 

 again by Mutford Bridge, The river just here spreads out into 

 a lake called Oulton Broads, a good fishing locality, but with 

 no botanical treasures, unless Lysimachia vulgaris and Valeriana 

 officinalis can be called so. Just beyond the bridge, by the side 

 of the road, grew fine specimens of Verbascum pulverulenfum, a 

 singular plant with very floury leaves and spikes of flowers, V. 

 nigrum grows also near. Foeniculum offici7iale is common in every 

 hedgerow, growing to a great height, with Tanacetum vulgare. 

 On a small heath opening on to the road I found the little 

 Linum cathat'ticum with the tall Hieracium umbellatum, while in 

 watery places Alisma ranunculoides was common. 



As I was now nearly north of the town, I determined on 

 examining the heath which lay in that quarter. I was however 

 disappointed, nothing growing there, save the usual heath plants ; 

 I discovered there however what I find to be Chenopodium 

 rubrum, but which differed from that plant in being quite pro- 

 cumbent, and in having thick fleshy leaves, whereas all the 

 specimens of " rubrum '^ that I Qver have found are remarkably 

 upright plants, and the leaves far from fleshy. On descending 

 again to the shore, the first thing I saw was a quantity of that 

 loveliest of plants Convolvulus Soldanella. They looked so beautiful 

 that I almost thought they were modelled in wax. Of this plant 

 1 preserved a good deal ; but alas for its beauty in the herbarium ! 



