400 NORFOLK BOTANY. [January, 



by the mouth of the Yare, adjacent to the ferry, has long since 

 disappeared.'^ Yarmouth has examples of defunct plants. Bat- 

 tersea, Peckham, Clapham Common, and Wandsworth are not 

 the sole localities that have to bemoan the loss of their shady 

 lanes, green fields, and rare species. The march of modern 

 meliorations has reached as far as this remote corner of Norfolk. 

 Note. This is the locality of Trifolium sujfocatum. 



These are most of the Denes' plants observed in July, 1862. 



The Caistor and K,unham marshes adjoin the Denes. There 

 are between the marshes and the Denes, in most parts, only the 

 road, and here and there a slip of cultivated land gained from 

 the sea. 



The river Bure runs through these marshes, and as they are 

 in close proximity to Yarmouth, they were, like the Denes, often 

 visited when we had but little time or were not disposed for a long 

 walk. Our w^alk was usually along the brink of the river on the 

 northern, or Caistor side, from Yarmouth to K,unham. 



Alth(Ba officinalis, not yet in flower, ornaments the sides of all 

 the cuts and ditches hereabout, but not quite so plentifully as in 

 Eomney Marsh. Rumex Hydrolapathum grows in deep water, al- 

 most always accompanied with Hydrocharis Morsus-ranee, and 

 more rarely with Sagittaria sayittifolia, Hippuris vulgaris, Buto- 

 mus umbellatus, Polygonum amphihium, Myriophxjllum spicatum 

 and M. verticillatum, Ceratophyllum demersum, Potamogeton gra- 

 mineus, Sparganium ramosum and S. simplex. By the brink of the 

 river, and where the ground was daily covered by the tide, Cochle- 

 aria anglica, A2num graveolens, Glaux maritima, Triglochin ma- 

 ritima, Plantago maritima, Atriplex marina, Samolus Valerandi, 

 throve well. Conium maculatum. Delphinium Consolida, Agri- 

 monia Eupatoria, Lepidium ruder ale, and less rare plants, grow on 

 the upper parts of the bank, generally beyond the reach of the 

 tide. Torilis nodosa grew on the path as plentiful as on the 

 banks of the Thames below Woolwich. 



About Runhara village, Mentha sylvestris grows in the muddy 

 ditches and in rubbishy waste places, accompanied with Melissa 

 officinalis, the latter an outcast from the gardens. 



* A friend, who only a few years ago botanized about Yarmouth, etc., told the 

 writer that there were fine examples of this plant, FranJcenia lavis, hanging in fes- 

 toons from the piers of the bridge at the head of the harbour. Will om- Yarmouth 

 correspondent be so kind as to teU us if this rare plant be still there ? 



