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district, but care has been taken, in compiling this list, to refer 
any parish to the same district in all cases ; thus, “ Cromer” and 
“Norwich” are referred to the eastern, “ Brancaster” to the nor- 
thern-central, and “Swaffham” to the western district; it is 
probable that a few errors of distribution of this sort have crept 
in, but it may be fairly hoped they are but few. 
It must be remembered that what is here attempted is a sum- 
mary of records of the occurrence of plants in Norfolk, arranged 
to show their distribution, and thus to indicate their comparative 
rarity, and that no attempt is made at the compilation of a “ Blora,” 
in the sense of a detailed account of localities ; such a work would 
be quite beyond the space which could be given to it in the 
Transactions of a Society like this ; it is, besides, totally unneces- 
sary — the excellent “Mora of Norfolk,” by the Rev. Kirby 
Trimmer, already occupies the ground, and to it all who require 
such information may be referred. All notes and mention of 
localities have been carefully restricted within the narrowest 
possible compass ; only such have been added as appeared actually 
necessaiy, either as records of hitherto unpublished localities, or 
for the sake of confirmation or explanation of entries in the list. 
Several species are now published for the first time as occurring 
in Norfolk ; for most of these we are indebted to Dr. Lowe, of 
Lynn, who most kindly sent a List of West Norfolk plants. A 
few species are placed in brackets, to indicate a doubt as to their 
having been found in a truly wild state, or as requiring confirma- 
tion, and one or two that seemed to rest on insufficient evidence 
have been omitted altogether. It is to be feared that some of the 
plants recorded by the earlier Norfolk botanists have become 
extinct, but the number of those really lost to the county is 
probably very few, and consists almost entirely of marsh or semi- 
aquatic species. 
Some confusion in the records of the distribution of wild plants 
in the county has arisen from a practice which prevailed among 
some of our local botanists of a former generation, who planted or 
sowed species in which they were particularly interested in their 
own neighbourhoods. When these species were derived from other 
localities within the county, no great harm was done ; but it is 
doubtlul whether some few species foreign to Norfolk have not 
been naturalised, and so permanently recorded from this cause : be 
