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Great Glenham, 2'dtJi July, 1858. 



... I send you a few notes on East Suffolk plants, which 

 may be of interest to some of your readers. Two of the rare 

 species I have met with are, I fear, already extinct. 



Hijypophae rhamnoides. Thorpe, near Aldborough. I have 

 not seen this growing, but have had fresh specimens brought to 

 me, and am informed that it grows on the sand-cliffs by the sea. 



Orchis hircina. Of this species I have only seen the specimen 

 recorded in the 'Phytologist' (for 1847?), which I met with at Great 

 Glenham, in July, 1847 ; it is now in the possession of Mr. C. C. 

 Babington. Although I have examined the locality almost every 

 year since that time, I have been unable to find a second spe- 

 cimen. 



Aceras anthropophora. This has occurred in a similar manner 

 to the preceding species. A single specimen gathered at Steu- 

 field, near Saxmundham, was shown me some years ago, but it 

 has not again occurred there, and I am not aware that it has been 

 met with anywhere else in this neighbourhood. It is, I believe, 

 not uncommon in the western part of the county. 



Eryngium campestre. In 1855 I met with a small patch of 

 this plant at the foot of the cliff, a quarter of a mile south of 

 Dunwich old church. I saw it again in 1856, not however in a 

 flowering state ; but on searching for it last year I found that the 

 sea had considerably encroached, and destroyed the station. I 

 sent a specimen to Professor Henslow, which I believe is placed 

 in the Ipswich Museum. 



Scirpus Savii, Snape. This grows in considerable abundance 

 near the river, both in boggy ground and on the sand. Unfortu- 

 nately I was not aware of its rarity on this coast, and therefore 

 preserved very few specimens. This occurs also, I believe, at 

 Benhall Green. 



Elymus arenarius. I have met wdth a few flowering tufts of 

 this plant on our coast, but it seems to be rare. Norfolk is 

 mentioned in the ' Cybele ' as the southern limit of this on the 

 eastern coast, and I believe that Scirpus Savii is there considered 

 to occur only on the southern and western coast, but I have not 

 the work at hand for reference. E. N. Bloomfield. 



