BOTANY IN ENGLAND A CENTURY AGO 821 
is either unknown to the wrists or has no vogue ‘seh of th 
of lichens is just as little popular. I obtained several rare mosses 
from Mr. Turner. At supper we had the old schoolmaster Lilly 
h ‘ ; d 
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possesses a fine collection of them, which in point of specimens 
must be admirable. But he is very unwilling to show it, and many 
of his botanical friends in this neighbourhood have never seen it. 
The next morning Mr. Turner showed me his collection of 
found in Engla nd, and includes many new varieties. A few days 
before my arrival in Yarmouth, Turner had returned from a great 
Isoetes lacustri $5, re grows lentifall y in the reat Cu Aaaae nd 
“ €, beside many aquatic plants of the genera Fucus, Ulva and 
onferva. 
After breakfast we went out botanizing on the shore and found 
Convolvulus Soldanella, Salsola Kali, Poa maritima, Centaurea Calei- 
trapa, Arenaria peploides, and many more, and I on cite 
with representative specimens. In the afternoon I made a ry 
excursion to another part of the shore, and found, besides the peed 
Confer va coccinea, Fucus ei bient: oe kn ea cres 
evening Mr. Turner joined me again and w sited another locality, 
on the road to Colston village et plalifee growing pretty freely. 
1im we planned a great botanical excursion for the next day ; 
Trifolium stellatum, Frankenia lavis, Chelidoniun 4 glauciun, ss 
spinossissima, » Sedum anglicum, Erica cinerea, Tillea ete Anagall 
ane he and many other rare plants, were its resu 
ext t da I determined to go to Smith at Riek which is 
only bysais: four English miles from Yarmouth. Mr. Turner gave 
me a letter to a certain Ritchford,+ a skilled botanist, who was to 
introduce me to Smith. Ritchford, a good honest a, wes ar 
in years, received me in the kindliest manner, and we t for 
Dr. Smith’s house, but found he was not at home. I ghitae 
—indeed, the time that I was able to eet in Norwich was tat too 
short. The Linnean Museum is contained in two large, but not 
Wide, cases. On their doors are nailed tin models of the different 
+i Pay en ameter ee ee 
* [An account ot rp tour, P, = as the western counties are concerned, 
will be found in Trans. Linn, Soc. y. 234-41. 
+ (A misprint fa Pitchford. Ss Biogr. Index, p. 136.) 
Journat or Boraxy. Vor. 40. [Sepr. 1902.] 2a 
