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THE FLORA OF SUFFOLK AND THE THREE 



ADJOINING COUNTIES COMPARED WITH THE 



FLORA OF HOLLAND. 



I ROM the geographical position of Holland and East Anglia, lying 

 nearly between the same parallels of latitude, and on the oppo- 

 site sides of a sea scarcely more than 120 miles in width, there 

 is an antecedent probability that the two countries have a 

 closely assimilated Flora. Under this impression, Dr. Babington com- 

 menced an examination of Dr. Suringar's Zakflora of Holland, which, 

 from infirm health, he was unable to complete. With the help of his 

 notes, the investigation has been continued ; and its result is here 

 briefly stated. 



As the Continental Floras usually include the cereals, cultivated 

 vegetables, shrubs and trees, not native to those countries, these have 

 been omitted, that, the comparison may be made on equable conditions. 

 For the same reason the Characeee of East Anglia are passed over, as 

 those of Holland are not included in Dr. Suringar's work. The East 

 Anglian species are estimated as 1339, those of Holland as 1466. Of 

 these about 1120 are common to the two countries. About one in six 

 of the East Anglia species is absent from the Zakflora ; and about one 

 in four-and-a-half of the Dutch species is wanting in the East Anglian 

 list. 



Having regard to those English species, which, exclusively, or very 

 nearly so, belong to East Anglia, a large proportion of them belongs 

 also to Holland. Its Flora includes the following Eastern Counties 

 plants: (those marked f have been introduced into Holland). Silene 

 Otites; S.conica; Holosteum umbellatum ; Scleranthus perennis ; Medi- 

 cago silvestris ? ; M.falcata; M. minima; Melilotus arvensis ; fTrifolium 

 ochroleucum; Lathyrus tuberosus ; Herniaria glabra ; Tillcea muscosa; 

 Carum Bulbocastanum ; \Peucedanum qfficinale ; Galium anglicum ; 

 Artemisia campestris ; Senecio paludosus ; S. palustris ; Crepis taraxaci~ 

 folia ; G. fcetida; Melampyrum arvense ; Veronica verna ; V. Triphyllos ; 

 Teucrium Scordium ; Primula elatior ; Suada fruticosa ; Obione pedun- 



