932 . 
Botanical Notes from East Suffolk, By T. W. Gissine. 
Dear Sir,—I enclose a paper on the plants of East Suffolk 
that I gathered during the latter part of last July. I hope it 
may prove interesting, for Suffolk is a county of which little has 
been said dotanically (excepting its good corn-crops) since the 
early part of this century. I wish my time had been greater, as 
I had a great desire to thoroughly explore, being my native 
county. 
I remain, faithfully yours, 
Salisbury, October 31st, 1855. T. W. Gissine. 
P.S. Iam glad to find the present ‘ Phytologist ’ is getting into 
the hands of many who never took the first series. 
Numerous causes combine to render it impossible for a tourist - 
to give an entire list of the plants of any district he may visit ; 
therefore I do not assume that the following plants are all that 
are to be found in Hast Suffolk; they are the rarer ones that at- 
tracted my attention during a short stay at the end of July and 
the beginning of last August. 
Of course I desired to gather as many of the rarities as pos- 
sible ; I therefore searched well for Lastrea cristata at Westleton, 
but without success. I think this failure is easily accounted for, 
for since the time Mr. Davy reported the plant from that neigh- 
bourhood nearly all the spots likely to produce it have been in 
some way transformed—chiefly drained and converted into arable 
land. There are now but very few “ Alder holts” in the vici- 
nity of Westleton, although many persons who have known the | 
place for only twenty years informed me that at that distance of 
time clumps of Alders were very common; one large spot in par- 
ticular—boggy and covered with those trees—was known as the 
“ Alder cars.” 
In Hooker and Arnott’s Flora, Eye is given as a habitat for 
Holosteum umbellatum: of this I likewise failed to find any trace. 
It must likewise be remembered that a great number of the rare 
plants indigenous to Suffolk are found only in the northern or 
western parts of the county; and I think it highly probable that 
the Veronica verna and V. triphyllos, said to grow near Thetford, 
may be in Norfolk. Orchis hircina, reported in the ‘ Phytologist’ — 
a few years since as growing at Great Glemham, I searched vainly 
for. 
