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visitors as go into these parts with the above-mentioned honest 

 intentions, but he will give them the necessary information about 

 reaching the most productive parts of these Fens, and the routes 

 and other locomotive appliances which may be most convenient, 

 and the names and addresses of the persons to whom they will 

 have to apply. 



I fully agree with your correspondent that Norwich is the best 

 and the most central locality in the county. Beccles, in Suffolk, 

 will be another good centre for the collector. From both of these 

 places he will find a great variety of localities, rich in novelties 

 and easily accessible. I am, etc, 



Aliquis. 



45, Frith Street, Soho Square, London. 



Note. — In justice to our Yarmouth correspondent who sup- 

 plied the articles on East Anglian Botany, it should be stated 

 that he has no real doubt about Lepidium latifolium being a 

 native of all the three East Anglian counties, Essex, Suffolk, 

 and Norfolk ; nor that anybody could mistake or confound the 

 two species, L. latifolium and L. ruderale. But after all, the 

 very best botanist might by inadvertence write the one when he 

 meant to write the other. 



The other two doubtful species, viz. Frankenia Icevis and Stel- 

 laria nemorum, are not so easily disentangled from the confusion 

 in which our excellent correspondents have involved them. 



Frankenia lavis was not to be found easily or plentifully about 

 Yarmouth at the period of the publication of Paget' s Flora, 

 say twenty years ago ; or if it had, it would have been recorded 

 in that work as still to be found there. 



In the ' Phytologist,' vol. vi. p. 227, this species is stated to 

 be " abundant in salt-marshes on Breydon Water, near Yar- 

 mouth, and all over the marshes at Caistor." This is a flat con- 

 tradiction to what our correspondent saw in July, 1862, and we 

 must leave the matter to be settled between those two learned 

 pundits. The one says that the plant is abundant on the shores 

 of Breydon, and all over Caistor marshes ; the latter asserts that 

 it is so far from being abundant that it is not there at all ; not 

 a trace of it was to be detected on either of the assigned locali- 

 ties. Salt-marshes are not the usual localities of this plant, 

 which rather prefers the sand or sandy shingle, or overhanging 

 banks close bv the sea. 



