368 EAST ANGLIAN BOTANY. [December, 



In a depression at the extremity of the heath, near the fenny 

 parts which bound the river, some plants of Thalictrum flavum 

 were growing, a few of them only just showing flowers. 



This was the first example of a not uncommon species that 

 we saw during our ten days' excursion ; hence we concluded that 

 it was not frequent in this part of the country. 



In a ditch by the edge of a meadow, and surrounded by its usual 

 concomitants, — the common Reed {Sparganimji), Water Figwort, 

 etc., — our old favourite Sonchus palustris again appeared. This 

 station is in the same tract as the Burgh Castle locality, but 

 several miles higher up the stream. The plants here grew very 

 sparingly, only a few stragglers, but some minutes' walk in the 

 same direction brought us to a fine patch of this rare plant, 

 which was growing in a dense, round, lofty mass, on a slightly 

 elevated part of the ditch bank. Here we counted as many as 

 from twenty to twenty-four plants or stems, none of them yet 

 in flower. 



In a meadow, inside a gate where there Avas a cart-road by 

 which the produce (hay) of these marshes was carried away, 

 among a luxuriant gro\vth of rushes there grew, to us, a very un- 

 usual state of Galeopsis not yet determined. It is quite as tall as 

 G. Tetrahit, but differs from this species in the stem and flowers. 

 It comes nearer to what we raised from seeds sent by a Conti- 

 nental correspondent, who gave with them the name G. villosa. 

 The flowers were pure white in dense whorls, and the stem was 

 hairy rather than prickly, and not swollen above the joints. 



While admiring this new acquisition, and hesitating whether 

 we should go to St. Olave's, along the river-bank, which was 

 within less than a couple of hundred yards from the place where 

 we stood, or should go over the heath, the farmer who occupies 

 these lands entered, and we courteously accosted him and asked 

 the way to the station. He rather gruffly rejoined that there was 

 no way, road, nor path here. On our modestly telling him that 

 a loaded waggon had just passed, and reminding him that there 

 was a path by the river, i.e. on the bank, he said there was no 

 way except for him and his servants, etc. ; he further asked if 

 we were not botanizing gentry. We of course did not deny the 

 soft impeachment, but qualified our propensities by stating that 

 we did indulge them occasionally, but only in a sfnall way. He 

 stoutly insisted that he had seen us before ; but this we as stiffly 



