332 EAST ANGLIAN BOTANY. \^November, 



The cliff plants were very scanty, and of the humblest order, 

 considered as oljjects of rarity, though per se (intrinsically) tall 

 and showy. Linaria vulgaris was just coming into flower, and 

 Echiuni vulgare was in the perfection of beautj'^ and dignity; 

 Daucus Carota was also plentiful and luxuriant. Reseda Luteola 

 helped to cover the bare, sandy clay on this part of the coast. 



About a mile from Gorton, on the Yarmouth side, there is a 

 long, narrow slip of heathy and furzy ground, where several not 

 rare plants grew, viz. Hieracium umbellatum, Hypericum humu 

 fusi'ni, Poh/gafa vulgaris, of all its colours, white, red, and blue ; 

 also Silaus pratensis, Soiidago Virga-aurea, Orchis maculata, etc. 



The seashore plants were far from numerous. Note. — There 

 is no saltwater marsh on all the coast between Gorleston and 

 Lowestoft ; for some miles beyond the former, the sea, when the 

 tide is at the highest, washes the base of the cliff. Beyond Gor- 

 ton there is a considerable extent of sand-hills, Dunes or Denes, 

 with some grassy flats between the sand-hills and the cliff. 



On the wet sand, or on sand wetted with the tidal water, be- 

 tween Gorleston and Lowestoft, about midway, plenty of fine 

 specimens of Cakile maritima were procured. 



Most collectors know to their sorrow that this plant does not 

 dry very readily, and good examples in this state are not very 

 common. Salsola Kali w;is seen at or near the same part of the 

 shore, and myriads of Honckeneja peploides. Sedum anglicum 

 was nearly as plentiful as it is on the Welsh mountains in 

 Merionethshire. Elymus arenarius, mostly in flower, was also 

 abundant on the dry sand-hills on the shore between Gorton and 

 Lowestoft. The Trefoils and Medicks were of the very com- 

 monest kinds. 



About Gorton Sinapis nigra grew on the cliff", with Carduus 

 tenuifiorus and Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus in grassy parts 

 about the village. 



On a single spot by the roadside, not more than a quarter of 

 a mile from Gorton, on the Lov»estoft side of the villagre, and on 

 a heath which is doomed to enclosure and the encumbrances of 

 villas, there was a fine patch of Tillfsa muscosa discovered. We have 

 heard that it is to be seen in every bare part of the many heaths 

 in Norfolk and Suffolk, but, though we were on several heaths, 

 we only observed this rarity here, barely half a mile from Gorton. 

 This was the only spot where it was seen by us. 



