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THE TOPOGRAPHY AND VEGETATION OF THE 

 NATIONAL TRUST RESERVE KNOWN AS 

 BLAKENEY POINT, NORFOLK. 



BY PROF. F. W. OLIVER, F.R.S., AND E. J. SALISBURY, 

 D.Sc., F.L.S. 



The object of the present paper is to present an epitome of 

 the salient facts of the constitution and distribution of the plant 

 populations of the well-defined area of maritime waste lands 

 known as Blakeney Point, an area which has recently been 

 brought under the National Trust as a Nature Reserve, with 

 the express intention that the natural conditions which have 

 prevailed in the past shall continue in operation without inter- 

 ference, at any rate from human agency. 



Since the year 1910, Blakeney Point, long famous for its 

 bird life and known to botanists as a locality for rare and 

 interesting shore plants, 1 has been the theatre of systematic 

 vegetation studies at the hands of organised parties. The work 

 of collecting and correlating the data of plant distribution was 



1. The late Prof. Babington, the well-known British botanist, records visiting 

 Blakeney Point and collecting plants tliere, May 23rd, 1834. ' Memorials, 

 Journals, etc." 



