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growing on flat and wet gravelly parts, spreading over the snrface 

 like Polygonum aviculare, and at the base of the sea-wall it was 

 hanging down, festoon-like, in masses upwards of a foot long. 

 It was decided that this plant was never seen before in the South 

 of England either more plentiful or more luxuriant than it is about 

 a mile from Dymchurch. Near the same place grew also Bu- 

 pleurum teymisshnum, not in great plenty, but the few examples 

 Avere very fine. 



The other common plants of these salt marshes were Aster 

 Tripolium, Lepturus fiUformis, Sea Orach, Arenaria marina, and 

 other common maritime species. 



As Dymchurch offers little attraction except its dyke, or sea 

 wall, we were not induced to tarry here, and returned again 

 to Lydd, not along the coast by which we came, but by St. 

 Mary's to Ncav Romney, and by old Romney to Lydd. 

 ' On our wMy back the chief plants that we saw worth record- 

 ing were Medicago maculata, not so plentiful here as we saw it 

 the previous season about Sandwich, Pegwell Bay, and Deal. 

 In Romney Marsh it is comparatively a rare plant. Another 

 capture was Chenopodium murale, which will pass muster only 

 when rarer plants are invisible. This was our third and most 

 successful day's botanizing in the Marsh. 



On the ]5th, a dull and somewhat drizzly morning, we walked 

 from Lydd, where we passed our third night, to Appledore 

 station to breakfast; and, on our way, took our final leave of the 

 Water Lilies before mentioned, which grow near Snargate, or 

 about a mile from the station. These plants, which mostly 

 covered the stream, — it is barely a stream, for we could not tell 

 which way it flowed, whether to the Rother at Appledore, or to 

 the sea at Dymchurch, — or rather their leaves, varied from the 

 size of the leaf of Villarsia nymplueoides to that of the largest we 

 had ever seen in the Thames at Walton or Caversham bridges. 

 There was a complete series of sizes ; the increase was traceable 

 through numerous steps of enlargement from the smallest to the 

 greatest dimensions. The flowers do not vary so much as the 

 leaves do. Few of them were in flower ; but on passing along 

 four days before, one of the medium size had a flower expanded, 

 but on the dull, drizzly morning when we returned, there was 

 not one with an opened blossom. 



If Nymphcea alba minor be a good, i. e. a distinct variety, and 



