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Art. CCXLIl. — Additional Notes on Suffolk Botany. 

 By W. L. NoTCUTT, Esq. 



Having on a former occasion communicated some particulars of an 

 excursion I made in Suffolk last year (Pliytol. 823), and having, this 

 summer, revisited that part of the country, perhaps a few additional 

 observations may not be altogether unacceptable. My visit, however, 

 was paid at a period which, though one of the most pleasant in all the 

 year, is not the most fertile for the botanist ; namely, the latter part of 

 May. I again observed most of the plants noticed in my last com- 

 munication, though many of them were not in flower. In addition to 

 these, I saw in the meadows bordering the I'iver Gipping, a great 

 abundance of Orchis latifolia and Saxifraga granulata, the former be- 

 ing especially luxuriant ; while in the river itself was Potamogeton 

 lucens, and at its sides and in the adjoining ditches, plenty of Cicuta 

 virosa. In a pond in the meadows between the Gipping and the 

 Bramford road, was a large patch of Acorus Calamus, just coming into 

 flower. Qinanthe fistulosa grows in the neighbouring ditches, and 

 Menyanthes trifoliata in the boggy parts of the meadow. 



Turritis glabra I found in two other localities besides the one men- 

 tioned in my former paper. On the Belstead road I found it, though 

 sparingly, from Stoke-hills to the place where the Belsted-brook 

 crosses the road : at this latter spot Galium cruciatum abounds, and 

 Malva moschata grows in small quantity. In the fields beyond, Se- 

 dura Telephium adorns the hedge-bank, and in a hedge a little fur- 

 ther on, I found a tree of Quercus Cerris, most likely planted. I 

 met with Turritis glabra again in a cornfield on the way to Downham- 

 reach woods : it was just at the top of the hill above Greenwich-farm, 

 at the bottom of which, on the river side, is Hog-island, a locality for 

 Statice rariflora. This is a remarkably pleasant walk, and by no means 

 devoid of botanical interest In the neighbouring cornfields we meet 

 with Papaver Argemone, and at the end of them emerge into Gainsbo- 

 rough's lane, so named after the celebrated Suflblk painter, Gainsbo- 

 rough. Some of the views in this lane afford the most beautiful com- 

 bination of river and wood scenery imaginable. At its termination 

 are Downham-reach woods, which deserve, and I doubt not would 

 richly repay, a close and careful investigation. Here was Orchis mas- 

 cula in profusion, and just in its prime, and such magnificent speci- 

 mens I certainly never beheld before. By the side of one of the 

 ditches on the edge of the wood, I found, after a little search, plenty 



