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the signal house on the coast W. of Cuckmere Haven. The 

 drainage of the western and largest part of this district is 

 effected by the Cuckmere, which has two principal streams, 

 uniting at Hellingly. An independent stream, the Ashburn, 

 drains the eastern portion and reaches the sea near the Red 

 House at Pevensey. This district has been thoroughly 

 investigated by the Eastbourne Natural History Society, 

 and the result published by F. C. S. Roper, Esq., in his 

 " Flora of Eastbourne, " with several Addenda. To him I 

 am greatly indebted for information frequently given and 

 extending to the present time. 



VI. EAST ROTHER. Starting from the coast, Kent 

 boundary to Tunbridge Wells thence by road skirting Eridge 

 Park and Blackthorn Hill to Rotherfield on to Butcher's 

 Cross, Five Ash Down to Cross-in-Hand, then main road to 

 Burwash as far as east side of Heathfield Park, through 

 Cade Street, Punnett's Town, Turner's Green, Collier, 

 Dallington, Netherfield Green, thence to Battle by the high 

 road dividing High Wood between Beauport and Crowhurst 

 Parks, and through Hollington to the E. of St. Leonards. 

 It is drained by the E. Rother and two small independent 

 streams, the Tillingham and the Brede, flowing from the 

 westward, which meet the estuary of that river near Rye. 

 This district has been carefully explored and its botany 

 published by the Hastings and St. Leonards Philosophical 

 Society. To the Rev. E. N. Blomfield, Guestling, the author 

 of the " Flora of the E. Rother district," I owe many thanks 

 both for his MS. notes and lists of " finds " up to 1887. 



VII. MEDWAY. Bounded by Surrey and Kent to the 

 N., E. by the Rother, S. by the Cuckmere and Ouse, leaving 

 the Ouse district at Handcross, northward to Pease Pottage 

 Gate, then westward across the Forest to Colgate, Stone 

 Lodge, then bearing N.E. to Roughey Street, E. of Rusper 

 to the Surrey boundary. Drained by the Medway, which, 

 originating in Sussex from a number of little streams, 

 becomes the boundary between Kent and Sussex, and runs 

 into the German Ocean; and by the Mole, an independent 

 river which has its chief sources on the N. side of the Forest 

 Ridge, and passing into Surrey, joins the Thames near 

 Hampton Court. To part of this district there is a guide in 

 E. Jenner's " Flora of Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding 

 Country"; also notices of the plants in the Forests by 

 several observers, in " The Phytologist " ; and records of 



