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Juli. This elegant plant groweth very plentifully and beareth its 
Julus yearly by the bankes of Norwich river, chiefly about Claxton 
and Surlingham, & also between Norwich & Hellsden bridge, 
so that I have known Heigham Church in the suburbs of aver: 
strewed all over with it. It hath been transplanted and -set on 
the sides of Marish pondes in severall places of the county, where 
it thrives and beareth ye Julus yearly.’ 
This account carries us back to about 1648 meting of sue): 
If the plant was not known until 1596 ‘in Gerarde’s garden 
it would seem that forty-seven years would be cw: short a time 
for the plant to get distributed in Norfolk. The Norfolk stations 
are all in Kast Norfolk. Leaving out of account all stations by 
rivers, where the plant may have been carried ae cultivation, or 
a pe ‘are remain stations on the head-waters of some rivers, 
ngham Ponds, Rollesby (K. Trimmer) ; wee of Stalham 
Dike (A, aa tt), &e. 
n instance of extension of habitat that I have watched for 
€ cas 
n 
the canal; Mr. H. C. Watson recorded it in the Ex. Club Report 
for 1868, published 1869, ‘‘ by the canal near Woking Station—a 
new locality.” It has now spread along the canal bank (on the 
the lpi sey so Ahere:§ is little chan nce of pieces of the Lee ersia 
many tile 
he consensus of opinion throughout Europe seems against the 
nativity of the Acorus, but the above bears somewhat in the opposite 
direction. 
There is no evidence in these published letters how Merrett’s 
reference to Lynn came about, for there is no record for West 
Norfolk of “the species ; the nearest station to the boeasiniky of that 
vice-county is nine miles from 
SHORT NOTES. 
SILENE NooTIFLORA 1n WorcesTersatre. — On Aug. 28 I found 
this in fair plenty in a cornfield at Bredon. It is included in 
Appendix D to Illustrations of the Natural History of ie ae 
by Charles Hastings, M.D. (1834)—*“a Catalogue of the m 
remarkable and interesting plants indigenous to Wornsatersbiit 
this authority, as may be seen from Watson's MS. in the Depart- 
ment of Botany of the British Museum, that the plant i is entered 
* See Journ. Bot. 1871, 164, 
