Till-: iu:v. 1', w. uali’In’s 1'lui:a or JiAULEr-Tux. 
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l)]iiiits aro to 1)0 coiisidorcd as species, sub-species, varieties and 
rorms.” This number, 1858, must, I think, be considered too high 
so far as species are concerned. The number ot species given in tlio 
‘ Student’s TTora,’ third edition, I make 1418. This was publislied 
ill 1884, and there are about a dozen to be added for the two 
years’ dilference in time, this would make about 1430 species lor 
1880, and as there have been several new discoveries during the 
last two years, 1 think, on the basis of the ‘Student’s Flora,’ which 
I regard as the best authority we have, about 1450 would be a fair 
estimate of s[)ccies of liritish Flowering Plants, excluding Characeie, 
known at the present time. To this number of 1450 we must add 
25 for the Characea* included in the ‘London (’atalogue,’ so that 
a perfectly fair comparison between the two lists will be 1475 to 
1878, or, as nearly as may be, 400 tlilfereiice. It is easy to see how 
the discrepancy arises, 'l ake genus Tlrythra'a as an example ; the 
‘ Stiulent’s Flora ’ gives one species {E. reutnuriinn) and four sub- 
species, but the ‘London Catalogue’ prints the whole of these live 
up to the line as if they were all species, and numbers them all on 
(‘ipial terms. 
'The district treated of in this Flora is, as we all know, situated 
in l)oth Norfolk and Suffolk, and 1 have, so far as my knowledge 
of the localities goes, treated it almost entirely from the point of 
view of our own County. 
i\Ir. ( lalpin’s list adds at least two species as natives of Norfolk 
to the i)ublished records of our Society. 'These are Primuhi elatior, 
.)ac([., the true Oxlip, and jUi>lf'niina n'ride, the (Ireen Spleenwort. 
Mr. i)ix most kindly went with me to Dickleburgh, and introduced 
me to the lady who first found the Oxlip, but we were not success- 
ful in tinding it in llower. It seems to dower earlier than the other 
species of Primula, and was off flower by May 14th, the Cowslip and 
Primrose being still in full beauty. Of A.<i>Ienium riride it is 
enough to say that it has beeir known in one locality for nearl}' 
forty years ; and if that locality is successfully kept secret, we may 
hope it will remain as long as the wall on which it grows stands. 
'The curious Maritime Flora to which allusion is made in the 
Introduction reminds us that, taken in connection with the seaside 
plants still holding their own at Brandon in the valley of the Little 
Ouse, there is every rea.son to suppose that Norfolk was, at no very 
long distance of time, re.ally an i.sland separat» <l f)-om •Suffolk and 
