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to find it, but he did not accomplish this the first year of trying. 
Afterwards he found a single specimen in a small piece of marsh on 
the west side of the Southtown road, near the “Marsh House;” 
and not knowing that it was the last existing specimen there, he 
gathered it, and showed it to Mr. Wigg the next day. Wigg 
stamped his foot with vexation, and said, “ You got that near the 
old house on the marsh.” “I did Mr. Wigg.” “Then you have 
destroyed the plant here ; for it was the last that remained on the 
Yarmouth station. I wish I had not told you of it.” It was 
Wigg’s fault : for if he had told Mr. Turner it was the last, and 
pointed it out to him, Mr. Turner would not have touched it. 
When the races were first proposed to be held at Yarmouth, 
Mr. Wigg was much opposed to it, as he concluded they would 
destroy some of the best plants on the Yarmouth station, which 
grew on the South Denes. These were, Rottbollia incurvata, 
Eryngium maritimum , Chenopodium botryoides, Trifolium striatum 
(not rare), T.scabrum, T.glomeratum, T. suftocatum , T.subterraneum, 
T. ornithopodio id es, and other plants less rare. However, the races 
were held, and the course as a necessary consequence much cut up 
and trampled on. Mr. Turner could not at first induce Mr. Wigg 
to go after the races had been held, to see what injury they had 
done. Some length of time after, when there had been some 
copious showers, he was induced to go and examine the ground; 
and he returned in the highest glee, rubbing his hands and 
exclaiming, “ I was never so astonished in my life : why the races 
have done the plants good ; and I never saw them so luxuriant as 
they are on the broken ground.” 
Mr. Turner always spoke of Wigg as a very shrewd and acute 
botanist, and a good finder; he also paid him a high compliment 
by bestowing his name on a 'Marine Alga ( Fucus wigghii), as 
the following extract from a paper in the Linnean Transactions by 
Mr. Turner will show. 
“ A single specimen of the Fucus was found many years ago 
upon the Yarmouth beach, by Mr. Wigg, to whose merit 1 feel a 
peculiar pleasure in paying what I consider the most public testi- 
mony in my power, by making it known to the botanical world 
under his name ; and as 1 think there cannot be the smallest doubt 
of its being totally distinct, not only from every English, but also 
from every other Fucus hitherto known; I trust, that however 
