Flora of Western Norfolk. 171 



cies, E. macrocarpum, is indigenous ; it cannot have escaped 

 from cultivation, because the plant so common in gardens is 

 E. angustifoUum. 



Discovered by my friend Mr. G. K. Thwaites in the lower 

 portion of Leigh Wood, Somerset, in a coppice which had 

 been cut two years ago, a situation very distant from any ha- 

 bitation. 



Henry Oxley Stephens. 



Bristol, 3 Terrill Street, Aug. 26, 1841. / y 



XXIII. — A List of Floivering Plants found growing wild in 

 Western Norfolk. By the Rev. George Munford*, Cor- 

 responding Member of the Botanical Society of London. 



The tract of country embraced by the hundreds of Freebridge 

 Lynn, Freebridge Marshland, Clackclose and Smithdon, and 

 which forms the western side of the county of Norfolk, con- 

 tains the remarkable district called Marshland — a part of the 

 great level of the Fens, and the higher ground bordering on 

 the Wash, which lies between the counties of Norfolk and 

 Lincolnshire. 



From the extent and variety of this field, it will easily be 

 seen that the botanist will find in it ample space for the ex- 

 ercise of his favourite pursuit. 



Local advantages, derived from a residence of almost twenty 

 years in the principal and central town of the district, maybe 

 supposed to enable the compiler of the following list to cor- 

 rect, in some few instances, the errors into which others, not 

 residing on the spot, may have fallen ; and perhaps to point 

 out here and there a new locality for some of the rarer plants 

 growing in the neighbourhood. 



It is Avith this view that, with the kind assistance of two or 

 three botanical friends also residing on the spot, the attempt 

 has been made to give, as far as possible, a correct and per- 

 fect list of the plants that are found growing wild in Western 

 Norfolk. 



As little more has been done than to collect into one place 

 what was previously known, but scattered throughout several 

 published works, it may appear that labour and pains have 

 been unnecessarily expended ; but the employment itself has 

 served to fill up, and very agreeably to amuse, many a leisure 

 hour, and will tend to refresh the memory when the power of 

 searching for these favourite objects of pursuit in the place of 

 their growth shall no longer exist. 



• Read before tlie Botanical Society of London, Gtli .\ugust, IS 11. 



