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catalogue solely applies, is included within a radius of about three 

 miles from Sandringham church. The following are its boundaries : 

 — Northwards, Snettisham; East, the Friug and Harpley road, Anmer, 

 Flitcham, Hillington, Congham ; South, Roydon (including the fen), 

 Wootton-heath and North Wootton ; and to the West, the sea-coast 

 as far north as Caen-hill wood, near Snettisham. 



To avoid a more lengthened description, the nature of its general 

 surface and the predominating vegetation, may be concisely defined as 

 follows. 



Area in 



Divisions of Surface. Square 



Miles. 



Character. 



1. Seashore (beyond H Stony, sandy, niuddy. 



the sea banlc) 



2. Salt marsh 5 Silt and clay 



3. Heath and com- 6 Sand, 

 mens, dry. 



Ditto, marshy.... 5 Peat, sand, clay 



Ditto, bog & i'eu 1 Sundy peat, with 



much Sphagnum. 



4. Woods, parks 'kc. 1| Sand and clay. 



5. Meadows & pas- 7^ Sandy loams & marls 

 tures. on chalk : clays 



6. Cultivated lands, 14^ Ditto 

 cornfields &c. 



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Predominant Vegetation. 



Triticum repens, Salicornia herba- 

 cea, Atriplex portulacoides, Sile- 

 ne maritima, Glaucium luteum. 



Various Gramineae. Statice Anne- 

 ria. In the ditches — Scirpus 

 maritimus andRuppia maritima. 



Callima vulgaris. Erica cinerea, 

 Ulex europaeus, Agrostis vulga- 

 ris, Galium verum, G. saxatile, 

 Seuecio Jacobaea, Teucrium Sco- 

 rodonia, Pteris Aquilina. 



Erica Tetralix, Junci, Ranunculi, 

 Myrica Gale, Aira caesp., Carices. 



Various Carices, Eriophorum an- 

 gustifolium, Droserae, Melica caj- 

 rulea, Hypericum elodes, Ana- 

 gallis tenella, Vaccinium Oxyco. 



Festucae, Phalaris, Agrostis vulga- 

 ris, Aira casspitosa, Myrrhis te- 

 mulenta, Heracleum, Scilla nut. 



Gramineae (Bromus, Lolium, Poa, 

 Phleum, Cynosui-us &c.), Trifo- 

 lia &c. 



Chenopodium album, Stellaria me- 

 dia, Rumiccs, Polygona, Senecio 

 vulgaris, Poa annua, &c. 



The general accordance of these divisions with the position of the 

 geological strata is also worthy of remark ; the cultivated lands and 

 pastures lying chiefly upon the chalk formation, the heaths and com- 

 mons upon the greensand, and the marshes upon the silt. 



In conclusion, the following tables will serve to illastrate the bota- 

 nical character of the Flora and the general distribution of the species. 



