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PLANTS GATHERED IN NORTH NORFOLK IN 1902. 
VI T. 
A LIST OF PLANTS GATHERED ON 
A SMALL STRIP OF THE NORTH COAST OF NORFOLK 
IN THE YEAR 1902. 
By the Rev. W. E. Thompson, M.A. 
(Communicated through the Hon. Sec.) 
Read 37 th January , 1903. 
The above mentioned district is in Y.C. 28, and is the most 
northerly part of the Norfolk coast. It has a length of about eight 
miles coast line, from the Hunstanton links to the Brancaster 
links inclusive, and a breadth of about three miles inland. It 
comprises the parishes of Titcliwell, Thornham, and Holme, and 
the adjoining borders of the parishes of Brancaster, Ringstead and 
Hunstanton ; all being on the coast except Ringstead. This small 
strip of country therefore presents great variety of surface, consist- 
ing as it does of three different parallel tracts running due east 
and west ; namely, on the north the sand dunes bordering the sea ; 
then the marshes ; and inland the southern portion of cultivated 
land with its villages, gardens, fields, hedgerows, copses, lanes and 
roads. 
From the marshes the ground rises inland to a height of from 
150 to 180 feet, at the southern limit of the district here included. 
The marsh tract is about three quarters of a mile wide, and 
consists of alternate salt and fresh water marshes. The Brancaster 
and Thornham marshes are almost entirely salt, and under water 
at high tides. The marshes of Titcliwell and Holme are, on the 
landward side of the dunes, entirely fresh water, being land 
reclaimed from the sea, and intersected by numerous dykes and 
ditches, which carry off the spring and surface waters to the sea ; 
