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the common, and the lowly but dainty petalled Bog Pimpernel, 
are here in plenty, though the erect, pallid, pink blossoms — 
large in proportion to the foliage of this small marsh creeper — 
may easily be overlooked. 
The road-side and hedgebank attractions in their seasons 
are : small yellow Stone Crop, Live Long ( Sedum telepixum), 
Vervein, Woodsage and Harebell, small Scabious, St. John’s 
Worts, Yellow Rattle and Eyebright, Polypody of lengthy 
fronds, and Blechnum boreale. Adder’s Tongue, Marsh Fern, 
Glaucous Stitchwort, and Grass of Parnassus may be found, 
whilst Adiantum nigrum and Alexanders proclaim proximity 
to the sea. Rata mar aria grows on the" church walls. 
I have found all three shades of the Milk-wort, pink, white 
and blue ; the rarer Bladder- wort ( Utricularia minor) has 
occurred, and Liparis also. One plant of Spiranthes autamnale 
was discovered on the holmes last year. Meadow Sweet, 
Purple Loose-strife, Figwort and Hoary Willow Herb of giant 
proportions clothe the banks of the Hundred stream in which 
the yellow Water Lily grows. 
There is but little Sphagnum or Drosera. The Furze Dodder 
clings to some Gorse bushes near the school. I have had 
a Morel brought me from Ruston, enormous Puff-balls (or 
Bulfer as we call them) — useful for staunching blood or 
quieting Bees — grow amongst the Furze, where pale lemon 
stagshorn-like Clavaria occurs in autumn, and, in winter, 
grey, beard-like Lichen depends conspicuously from the 
whitethorn stubs on the shady side of the fences. 
