1863.] NORFOLK BOTANY, 395 



above list is old and well-known, but if it be so, I fpologize to 

 the readers of the 'Phytologist' for occupying their time 

 so unprohtably ; and I hope that ere long we may see more 

 Hampshire lists published in these pages, as it is thus that the 

 flora of a large county must be gradually accumulated. 



NOErOLK BOTANY. 



Plants growing on Yarmouth Denes, and about Gorlesfon, Brad- 

 well, Caisior, Ormesby, and Rimham. 



The town of Great Yarmouth is situated on the south-eastern 

 point or extremity of the county, about twenty miles from the 

 city of Norwich, and about ten miles from Lowestoft. 



It stands on a saud-riclgej which is but slightly elevated above 

 the line of coast. The promontory, or rather spit, on which the 

 town stands is bounded on the west and south by the harbour or 

 the estuary of the Yare, and on the east by the sea and the ex- 

 tensive sandy beach, sand-hills, and flats called the Denes. 



The formation of this tract, which is extensive and constantly 

 increasing, is well deserving the attentive study both of geo- 

 graphers and geologists. It explains how the harbours in South 

 Kent and Sussex, viz. Sandwich, Hythe, New Romney, Rye, 

 etc., have by the accumulation of the sand been gradually silted 

 or filled up. 



The Bare, a navigable river, which flows from above Aylsham 

 and joins the river Yare at the head of the harbour, about two 

 miles or so before the united rivers enter the sea, once flowed 

 into the sea near Caistor by a channel which has long disap- 

 peared. It now flows in a direction almost parallel to the sea, 

 for several miles before it reaches the ocean. Its ancient direct 

 course has been diverted, probably at first by nature, and subse- 

 quently by art kept in its present direction. 



The ancient town of Great Yarmouth is built on the wedge- 

 shaped point or tongue of laud which lies between the sea and 

 the river, as before said, and the Denes are the north boundary of 

 the borough. 



The original town is built along the harbour, and consists of 

 rows of good houses, fronting the river, and a series of Rows, as 

 they are called, which unite the market-place and the principal 



