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PLANTS NEW TO NORFOLK, AVITII NOTES ON 
OTHER SPECIES. 
Ry Arthur Benxett, F.L.S. 
Read 26th February, 1884. 
The year 1883 did not pass witliout the County Flora being added 
to ; and when I say that two species were so added, and both these 
also additional British plants, it shows that the careful investigation 
of Its broads and coasts will repay examination, for tliere are still 
several other West European plants that may well be expected in 
East Anglia, both from the distributive and climatal point of view. 
If there are any of our members who would undertake this 
search, I shall bo pleased to give the names, probable dates, and 
most likely places to search in, or any other information I am able 
to afford. 
The first to bo named is 
Ononis repens, Lin., var. horrida, Lange. For the last three 
or four years I have known that the Ononis of the coast sand-hills 
represented a plant not mentioned in our Floras; but the want of 
access to authentic specimens of Dumortier’s viaritima, and tho 
verdict of M. Crepin, of Brussels (to whom I sent specimens) that 
Dumortier’s plant, so named, was unarmed,” made me hesitate 
what to call it, until I came across the description of 0. repem, var. 
horrida, Lange, in Wilkholin’s and Lange’s ‘Prod. Flor. Hispanica3.’ 
With this my specimens seemed to agree so well, that, to make 
sure, I sent some to Professor Lange, of Copenhagen. His reply 
was very satisfactory. It was : “ The specimens you kindly send 
of Ononis are exactly what I do mean by 0. rej)eus, var. horrida ” 
He also kindly sent me a paper on it, published in the Copenha-eu 
Oversigt d. k. D. \ idensk. Selsh. Forhandl.’ for 1873. There I 
find this var. horrida was (tlien) only known from Spain, all the 
others being the type “ var. inermis, Lange.” Dumortier’s maritima 
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