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that included by a circle of four miles' radius from Harleston 

 Station. At the close of the year 532 species of flowering 

 plants and ferns were recorded, with twenty varieties. For 

 the next year (1885) the circle of observation was extended to 

 a radius of five miles. Eighty additional species were re- 

 corded, including a more complete study of the local Rubi and 

 Gramma* In the following year (1886) the area was extended 

 another mile, and forty new species were added, with five 

 new varieties. During the present year (1887) a general re- 

 vision of the existing area has been attempted, and, as might 

 have been expected from the active investigations of previous 

 years, few additions have been made, twenty -four new species 

 only having been recorded. 



In order to render the details of the Flora more perfect 

 and representative, the observations of Mr. Holmes and others 

 before-mentioned, together with the reports of friends, duly 

 examined and credited, have been included in the present 

 account. The following table will therefore show the number 

 of species at present known within six miles of Harleston, and 

 in those parishes through which the six-mile circle passes. 

 Eighteen of their number are probably extinct, not having 

 been observed for many years : 



FLOWERING PLANTS, FERNS AND ALLIES. 



SPECIES observed by the HARLESTON BOTANICAL CLUB (1884) 532 



., ( 1885 ) 80 



( 1886 ) 40 



(1887) 24 



TOTAL SPECIES observed by the Club 676 



SPECIES added by an examination of PRINTED RECORDS ... 50 

 ,, MANUSCRIPT LISTS ... 57 



,, CREDITED REPORTS ... 8 



TOTAL SPECIES within a six-mile radius 791 

 ADDITIONAL SPECIES already recorded within an eight-mile radius 43 



TOTAL 834 

 (The species are determined by the London Catalogue, 8th edition, 1886.) 



A comparison of the Harleston Flora with those of Great 

 Britain and the Eastern Counties will be found in the next 

 section of the Introduction. The proceedings of the Club 

 have already been noticed in a paper read before the Norfolk 

 and Norwich Naturalists' Society in February, 1886, and 

 followed by an additional paper in the present year.* The 



* Transactions of the Norfolk and Nonvich Naturalists' Society, Vol. IV., 

 Part II., p. 225, and Part III., p. 395. 



