MR. W. A. DUTT ON PLANTS AT OULTON BROAD AND LOWESTOFT. 623 
V. 
A LIST OF ALIEN PLANTS FOUND GROWING AT 
OULTON BROAD AND LOWESTOFT SINCE 1897. 
By Mr. W. A. Dutt. 
(Communicated by the Honorary Secretary.) 
Recul 21th October , 1903. 
Now that so much attention is being given at Kew Gardens and else 
where to the alien plants which are so frequently unintentionally 
introduced into this country, and some of which have established 
themselves here, a list of a somewhat remarkable series of plants 
that have been found growing since 1897 in the neighbourhood of 
Oul ton Broad and Lowestoft seems worthy of permanent preser- 
vation. For the drawing up of this list I am chiefly indebted to 
Mrs. Baker, of Oulton Broad, to whose careful researches we owe 
that these floral strangers in our midst were not allowed to bloom 
unrecognised. Nearly all of them were undoubtedly introduced 
into Oulton and Carlton Colville with cargoes of foreign seed, for 
they were found growing either on a small tract of sandy and 
gravelly waste ground adjoining the malthouse of Messrs. Morse at 
the east end of Oulton Broad or in loamy soil in the immediate 
neighbourhood of Messrs. Everitt’s grain stores on the south side of 
the Broad. Messrs. Everitt’s stores were destroyed by fire in the 
summer of 1900, and some of the plants germinated in the refuse 
of the destroyed buildings. A good many of the cargoes of seed 
that have been discharged at Oulton during the last eight years 
came from the Baltic, the Danube, South America, and elsewhere. 
I have added to the list a few records of my own, most of them 
of plants which appear to have been introduced into Lowestoft with 
ships’ ballast. 
