492 BOTANY OF GREAT YARMOUTH. [^ApHl, 



plant, while the latter grows rather in inland localities than very 

 near the sea. 



(Enanthe Lachenalii is far, very far, from being as frequent in 

 Norfolk as it is in Kent. In the latter it contends for the mas- 

 tery with Marshmallow and wild Celery. About Moukton, in 

 Thanet, and in the ditches near Sandwich, and everywhere in 

 Romney Marsh, these three are the common ditch-plants. They 

 are not so common near Yarmouth. 



One of the great desiderata among the Norfolk plants is Se- 

 necio palustris, once known as Cineraria palustris. This very 

 scarce plant, which used to be found at or near the Bure river, 

 which flows through Caistor marshes, also in the Waveney, near 

 St. Olave's, etc., has not recently been reported from any part of 

 East Anglia, nor from the Eastern Lowlands, i. e. the contiguous 

 parts of Cambridge, Norfolk, Lincoln, etc. 



Any information about the locality of this rare plant will be 

 thankfully received. 



Sonchus palustris, as all readers of the ' Phytologist ' know, 

 has been very recently observed in Mr. Paget' s locality, viz. 

 near Burgh Castle, and in two or three other parts of the basin 

 of the Waveney, but on the Suffolk side. Some years ago, the 

 present Professor of Botany in Cambridge sent a note to the 

 * Phytologist,' which contained the evidence of its being found at 

 Burgh Castle, in Norfolk. This is quite as likely as its growth 

 on the Suffolk side, and hence all the three counties of the East 

 Anglian kingdom may still possess, or did possess till very re- 

 cently, this rare species. 



I will now explain, as briefly as I can, the reason why strangers 

 are sometimes viewed with suspicion, and are occasionally warned 

 off" in not very courteous language, even when their pursuits are 

 of the most harmless kind ; and also offer certain information, 

 help, and suggestive hints as may aid them in surmounting those 

 hindrances and obstacles which your correspondent so patheti- 

 cally describes. 



That the farmers, or graziers, or land-occupiers, or land-owners 

 should be very shy of strangers, is not a strange thing. These 

 fenny tracts ai-e very extensive, and are partly grazed, partly kept 

 for hay, and partly cultivated. The broads, or large sheets of 

 water, are either rented or occupied by those who preserve the 

 game and fish, or who employ them as decoys for wild fowl. 



