BOTANY 



Improved drainage is also gradually extinguishing such plants as Lathyrus pa/ustris, Sonchui 

 pa/ustrisy and Epipactis palustris. 



Species worthy of Special Notice 



{Those unique in Division in Larger Type) 



Brassica oleracea : Pakefield, but not seen recently. [Frankenia laevis used to grow in 

 Lothingland.] Holosteum umbellatum is very rare ; old walls at Eye and Hoxne are localities 

 where it was first observed in 1836 and last in 1889. [Linum angustifoHum is supposed no 

 longer to grow about Lowestoft, where once it flourished.] Medicago falcata : Lowestoft and 

 Stuston. M. mi/lima : Lowestoft. Trifolium suffocatum grows at Bungay, Lowestoft and 

 Gorleston. Lathyrus palustris is recorded from many localities in the north-east of this 

 division, such as North Cove, Oulton, Beccles, Blundeston, &c., and certainly still grows in 

 some of them. Poterium officinale : Palgrave. Pyrus torminalis : Bungay. This is possibly 

 on the Norfolk side of the river, as Stock's list of Bungay plants — on which many records rely 

 — included both counties. This fact must be noted also in connexion with other species. 

 Peucedanum palustre : Several localities in the north-east of the division, as North Cove 

 Fritton, Blundeston, &c. [Diotis candidissima, now killed by sea encroachments, formerly grew 

 between Lowestoft and Pakefield.] [Senecio palustris, it is feared, is now quite extinct in its old 

 localities at Lothingland, Worlingham, Lound, Haddiscoe, and near Yarmouth.] Sonchus 

 palustris : This formerly grew in five or six localities in marshes not far from the Waveney 

 between Beccles and Yarmouth, and in the Oulton district, and still exists in at least two of 

 them ; it is also recorded from Palgrave. Known as the marsh sow-thistle, this fine species 

 is now very scarce, and disappearing in East Anglia ; it has not been seen in Essex for some 

 forty years; in Cambridgeshire the last example occurred about 1850; records also exist 

 from Middlesex, Huntingdonshire, and North Lincolnshire. It still grows by the Thames 

 and Medway in Kent, also in Oxfordshire and South Lincolnshire ; and was seen in East 

 Norfolk up to 1899 (see Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. viii, 35). Campanula latifolia : 

 About Shipmeadow. Schollera OCCycoccus : Worlingham Common, near Beccles ; prob- 

 ably extinct now. [Pyrola rotundifolia has not been seen for many years in its old locality 

 near Bradwell, where it is reported that only a single example ever existed.] Erythnea 

 littoralis : Lowestoft and Gorleston ; but not reported by recent observers. Gentiana 

 Pneumonanthe : Considered by Dr. Hind and others to be probably extinct in Suffolk, 

 although it had several localities, as Carlton, Hopton, and Corton Heaths ; there must be some 

 suitable spots where this beautiful plant should be searched for anew ; it still grows in Norfolk 

 in plenty in similar situations. [Myosotis repens ; One doubtful record alone for Suffolk — 

 St. Margaret's. It may be really absent, only reaching as far east as Cambridgeshire.) \Orobanche 

 ramosa. Now extinct. It formerly grew in three or four places as a parasite upon hemp 

 which is no longer cultivated. It also occurred upon Galeopsis tetrahit in one spot.] Verhascum 

 pulverulentum is said to be now extinct in its two or three known localities between Fritton and 

 Oulton and at Gorleston, but should be searched for. [^Limosella aquatica no longer grows at 

 Lowestoft, local alterations causing this.] Veronica verna has been found at Lowestoft and V. tri- 

 phyllos at Bungay ; both are more abundant in the ' Breck ' district. Mentha alopecuroides 

 grows at Oakley, and its near ally, M. rotundifolia^ about Withersdale : the former may be 

 known by its longer corolla and calyx-teeth. Chenopodium botryodes : A very rare and 

 uncertain annual, known from near Lowestoft since 1828, where it grows near Southtown 

 Marshes. It is an East Anglian species, also occurring in Kent and Norfolk, and reaching 

 Sussex and Hampshire. Atriplex pedunculata is now very rare or else extinct in its recorded 

 localities at Breydon Water and between Yarmouth and Gorleston. Salicornia appressa : 

 Breydon Water. Urtica pilulifera : This, I fear, may no longer be found in East Suflfblk, 

 where it had half a dozen localities in this division, as Gorleston, Lowestoft, Bungay, &c. 

 Malaxis paludosa lias been found at Belton and south of Fritton Decoy ; it probably no longer 

 occurs in the former locality. Gagea fascicularis grows at Shipmeadow in some plenty. 

 Potamogeton angustifolius : Beccles. Ruppia maritima : Lowestoft and Southtown, Ryn- 

 chospora alba is possibly now lost at Lound and Belton Bog, owing to drainage. Scirpus 

 cernuus : Lowestoft. Carex limosa : Belton Bog. A very local plant in the south, its 

 head quarters being Northern Britain. It occurs, however, in Norfolk and Holland. Panicum 



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