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So far the progress of botanical science in Suffolk had been slow, 

 and its results small ; nor is there evidence that it had taken root in the 

 County. The presumption is, that the ascertained local Flora had been 

 gleaned by outsiders and not by native botanists. The authorities given 

 for local plants by How, Ray, and Dillenius, viz. Sare, Dale, Lawson, 

 Sherard, Willisell, and Newton, may include one or more natives of the 

 County ; but this is doubtful. Sir Dudley Cullum, 3rd Bart., born 1627, 

 deceased 1720, took a lively interest in gardening and in planting forest 

 and rare trees : but he does not appear to have made a special study of 

 botany. It remained for some other members of his family to make a 

 new departure, and to become the fathers of this science in Suffolk. 



Sir John Cullum, 6th Baronet, was born at Hawstead Place in 1732. 

 He was educated at Bury Grammar School and St. Catherine's Hall, 

 Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree as 4th Jun. Optime in 1756, and 

 was elected a Foundation Fellow of his College in 1759. He was insti- 

 tuted to the Rectory of Hawstead in 1762, and to that of Great Thurlow 

 in 1774. Sir John became F.S.A. March 1774, and F.R.S. in 1775. His 

 death occurred at Hardwick House, and he was buried at Hawstead in 

 1785. His only published work is the History of Hawstead, 1774, in 

 which he gives a list of the wild plants in that parish. This contains 

 but a small part of his botanical researches, which are more fully re- 

 corded in his Naturalist's Journal for the years 1772 to 1785. The 

 Journal is a daily record of observations in various scientific depart- 

 ments and of historical memoranda. It is enriched by frequent medi- 

 tations in Latin verse, evidencing a highly cultivated mind and a ready 

 muse. It very fully illustrates the Flora of the neighbourhood of Bury 

 St. Edmunds, and records various plants from the Suffolk coast and the 

 North of the County. Upwards of 500 flowering plants and more than 

 50 Cryptogams of the County are for the first time recorded in the 

 Journal. Among the more important of these are Clematis Vital ba ; 

 Anemone Pulsatilla ; Camelina saliva ; Helianthemum vulgare ; Viola hirta ; 

 Saponaria offidnalis ; Silene noctiflora ; Alsine tenuifolia ; Holosleum um- 

 bellatum ; Hypericum Androscemum and elodes ; Geranium pratense, san- 

 guineum^ rolundifolium and columbinum ; Linum angustifolium ; Genista 

 pilosa ; Trifolium ochroleucum and subterraneum ; Vicia lathyroides ; 

 Lathyrus Aphaca and Nissolia ; Onobrychis saliva ; Spircea Filipendula ; 

 Polenlilla verna ; Pyrus communis ; Peplis Porlula ; Tillcea muscosa; 



