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ing-gates, as they are called here and in Middlesex also, (turn- 

 stiles,) are liberally provided. In returning to Yarmouth through 

 the village of Burgh, more of Lycium barbaruni was seen, and 

 also a few plants of Sainbucus Ebulus, Cichoriitm Intybus, and 

 Fumaria cajireolata. 



On the bank of a large field nearer Burgh than Gorleston, 

 Rosa spinosissima grows in tolerable abundance; also a plant or 

 two of Arabis Thaliana. This plant was not nearly so common 

 here as Sisymbrium Sophia. 



Erodium cicutarium was very common on the sandy ground 

 here (all the ground here is sandy or peat)_, and it was singularly 

 luxuriant, and visually bore white flowers. 



On our way through Gorleston marshes Carex Pstudo-.cyperus 

 was booked as one of the rarities, and this was the finale to our 

 second day's botanizing about Yarmouth. 



We returned to this part of our hunting-ground on the 19th, 

 retracing much of the route formerly walked over, with this 

 difierence, — instead of going to Burgh and Burgh Castle, we di- 

 verged to the left to Bel ton and Fritton. 



The Decoy, or " ^Coy," as they call it here, decoyed us not 

 much to our advantage, or, as the sententious Roman said, parum 

 rebus. Notwithstanding this, we had a very successful day, but 

 not in the Belton bogs nor in the Fritton decoy. 



There is a productive bog about half a mile before reaching 

 Belton village in coming from Burgh by the road ; perhaps it is 

 two miles from Burgh by the road, but by the river it is barely 

 one mile from Burgh Castle to Belton. They say it is no dis- 

 tance from Burgh, for the two villages are contiguous ; but coun- 

 try people are liberal in their estimates of distance. The bog 

 above mentioned was on the left of the road, and very accessible ; 

 and as St. Swithin blew strong blasts of wind, mingled with dust 

 and small pebbles, and did not pour out rain by the hogshead, 

 we were fain to take shelter in the marshes, where the strong- 

 breezes did not hurl the sand and gravel on our faces, to the 

 great injury and discomfort of our eyes. 



Ranunculus Lingua and Hydrocharis Morsus-rante were plen- 

 tiful enough in most of the swampy ditches, but here we first 

 observed the latter in flower. Menyanthes trifoliuta also abounded, 

 but almost all of the plants in seed. The lierbage was most 

 luxuriant. 



