68o MR. W. G. CLARKE ON A WEEK IN BRECKLAND. 
The Blue Fleabane ( Erigeron acris) we noted on Barnham 
Cross Common, near the Croxton road Railway bridge, 
Thetford, and on the Wretham heaths. The most widely- 
distributed heathland plant in blossom was the Eyebright 
( Euphrasia officinalis), while the white-flowered form of the 
Hemlock Stork’s bill ( Erodium cicutarium) appeared to be as 
abundant as the type. 
On ancient heathland north of Weeting Mr. W. A. Dutt 
and I found dwarfed forms of a number of plants including 
a small pale-flowered form of the Self-heal ( Prunella vulgaris), 
the Field Gentian ( Gentiana campestris), the Hoary Cinquefoil 
( Potentilla argentea), common Centaury ( Erythrcea centaur eum). 
Lady’s Fingers ( Anthyllis vulneraria). Dwarf Thistle ( Car- 
duus acaulis) and Knotted Spurrey ( Sagina nodosa) which 
also occurs in abundance near Ringmere, Langmere and 
Fowlmere, on Thetford Abbey Heath and Two-mile-bottom 
Common. Specimens of Gentian (probably campestris) 
were so arrested in growth by the attacks of a fungus 
that it was impossible to give them specific identity. I sent 
an example to Dr. C. B. Plowright, F.L.S., and he 
identified the fungus as Puccinia gentiance, Strauss, com- 
paratively a recent addition to our flora, and not previously 
recorded for Norfolk. On sandy fields, bordering these 
heaths and near Mount Ephraim, Weeting, were numerous 
examples of the Red Hemp-nettle ( Galeopsis Ladanum var. 
angustifolia) — confirmed by Mr. Arthuf Bennett, F.L.S., and 
only previously recorded for Norfolk by Rev. E. F. Linton, 
who found it at Locldon in 1900 — the Common Hemp-nettle 
(Galeopsis Tetrahit), the Field Melilot (Melilotus arvensis), 
the Blue Pimpernel ( Anagallis ccerulea), the Little Toadflax 
(Linaria minor), Field Madder ( Sherardia arvensis) and Basil 
Thyme ( Calamintha Clinopodium) a white variety of which 
was common both here and on Barnham Cross Common. 
Everywhere, too, there was evidence of the abundance of the 
Purging Flax (Linum catharticum) a month or two previously. 
On other days the C.arline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) was noted 
on the slopes of a road embankment on Thetford Warren ; 
Good King Henry (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus) on the 
