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Zato, limosd) flava, and Pseudo-cyperus ; Agrostis canina and alba; Tri- 

 odia decumbens ; Molinia ccerulea ; Gtyceriafluitans; Sclerochloa mari- 

 tima and procumbens ; Briza media ; Festuca rubra^ gigantea and ^ra- 

 tensis; Bromus asper ; Serrafalcus racemosits ; Brachypodium silvaticum ; 

 Triticum repens ; Hordeum pratense ; Equisetum limosum and palustre ; 

 Polypodium vulgare ; Lastrea Oreopteris. 



Lists of Mosses and other Cryptogams are also given by Messrs. 

 Taget, of which about 100 localized species are new to Suffolk. Besides 

 these there are many others, for which localities have not been given, 

 ;and which consequently cannot with certainty be reckoned as Suffolk 

 species. Sir J. Paget's Herbarium in Norwich Museum has been con- 

 sulted, it adds no important species to the Flora of Suffolk. 



The New Botanist's Guide, published in 1835-7, brought with it a 

 fresh contribution to the Flora of Suffolk. It was compiled by Mr. 

 Hewitt Cottrell Watson, a gentleman, who, by his subsequent writings, 

 the Cybele Britannica, Topographical Botany and other important works 

 gave a fresh impulse to the study of Botanical Science and placed him- 

 self in the first rank of British Botanists. Mr. Watson came of a good 

 stock. He was born in 1804 at Firbeck in the South of Yorkshire. 

 When twenty-two years old, he became the possessor of a small estate 

 in Derbyshire ; soon after which he went to study in Edinburgh. In 

 1835 he purchased a residence at Thames Ditton, Surrey, which became 

 his future home. For a time he diligently prosecuted the study of 

 Entomology; but afterwards he gave himself almost wholly to the 

 investigation of Geographical Botany, which in his hands attained the 

 dignity of a special science. Though apparently absorbed by Botany, 

 he had an interest in and leisure for other matters. He gave his attention 

 at times to phrenology ; and he was also an earnest politician of the 

 democratic school, and had relations with the business of the world. 

 He was for many years a shareholder in the South Australian Land Co., 

 and took a lively interest in its affairs, and for several years, towards 

 the end of his life, acted as one of the auditors of its accounts. He 

 attained the ripe age of seventy -seven, and was buried at Thames Ditton. 



The New Botanist's Guide, coming so soon after the last-named 

 work, could not be expected to add largely to the numbers of recognized 

 Suffolk species. It utilized the information contained in the Older Guide, 



