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waut it. Valeriana dioica, marshes at Caistor, and all over the 

 Norfolk fens. Carduus Marianus, a few plants at Caistor ; but 

 I have since been told that they were introduced by the late 

 rector. It grows at RanAvorth, and is easily distinguishable by 

 its milk-veins from all others of its family. It never could have 

 been introduced there^ as it is far from the footsteps of intro- 

 ducers, and must have been there for ages. C. pratensis, in 

 marshes at Caistor ; it was out of flower. This plant is so abund- 

 ant as to form nearly the sole occupant of the soil in the fens at 

 Horning, Ranworth and here at Bressingham ; I could go and 

 cut down large quantities now in flower. I saw men mowing it 

 here last night, and swearing about it. C. heterophijllus occurs 

 sparingly in the fens. (What fens ?) Anacharis Alsinastrum ; 

 this promises to be the possessor of a number of our streams. 

 At Ranworth one part of the Broad has to be cleared every year, 

 that boats may pass with their loads of rushes, fodder, etc., the 

 marshes being so extensive that flat-bottom boats are the only 

 mode of conveyance to clear the fens of their rushes. They sell 

 the rushes at as much as (jOs. a waggon-load, and reeds at £5 per 

 hundred fathoms. 



Of Carex extensa I have not a specimen left : I sent some 

 to Thirsk, I believe, last year, and the last specimen I sent 

 to our exhibition at Loddon on Whit-Monday. I will try and 

 get some : they are not common. Alopecurus bulbosus, in the 

 salt-marshes at Great Yarmouth, sparingly. Phleum arenarium, 

 among the loose sand at Ormesby, four miles north of Yar- 

 mouth. To this may be added Poa bulbosa, once abundant on the 

 Denes at Yarmouth, but now very scarce. Triticum loliaceum, 

 at Hemsby, Winterton, and as far as Orford, south, and Clay, 

 north; never' more than only a few plants. Clay I found very 

 interesting, and will send an account of the plants of that place 

 in my next. 



DENTDALE AND RIBBLESDALE. 

 Three Days' Botanizing in Dentdale and Ribblesdale. 



By C. J. ASHFIELD. 



During the present month, my friend and fellow-rambler, the 

 author of ' Rambles by the Ribble' (which rambles, by the way 

 have frequently been honoured by the favourable notice of the 



