MR. W. A. NICHOLSON ON BOTANY OF SUTTON. 265 
IX. 
A PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THE BIONOMICAL 
BOTANY OF SUTTON AND THE ANT DISTRICT. 
By W. A. Nicholson, Hon. Sec. 
Read 2jth February, 1906. 
The following observations refer, more especially, to the 
region marked in Mr. Balfour Browne’s Map,* as the Ant 
district, though I have introduced a few remarks dealing 
with Hickling Broad District, where the prevailing conditions 
might be considered as fairly similar to Barton Broad. My 
work has been done, mainly in the summer months of 1902- 
04-05, supplemented by an occasional early spring, late 
autumn and winter visit. A complete survey of the botany 
of the district, would necessitate a residence there, for many 
months, perhaps even extending into years. 
I have to thank Mr. Gurney, and his director Mr. F. Balfour 
Browne, for allowing me every facility for access to the Sutton 
Laboratory and the adjoining meadows and marshes. 
The laboratory at Longmoor Point is about 4$ miles from 
the sea. It is situated on a tongue of higher land, which juts 
out into the alluvium of the marshes. This higher land, 
which is composed of pebbly gravel and sand, stretches from 
Longmoor Point in an easterly direction to Hickling Broad. 
It extends southerly to the east of Barton Broad. The same 
formation is represented on the southern and south-western 
odges of this Broad. On the western side of Barton Broad, 
towards Stalham, stony loam and sand occurs. 
* Note.— See Map to vol. viii. p. 69, Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. 
The district extends from Stalham to the south of Barton Broad, and includes 
iutton and Barton Broads, a portion of the Ant, and the marshes adjacent to 
liese localities. The flora of the higher land on the western part of the district 
tas not been dealt with in this paper. 
