48 MR. A. BENNETT ON NAIAS MARINA AND CHARA STELLIGERA. 
mail train to Yarmouth. We wanted him to come with us, 
and he said : “ If you will engage to find a new British plant 
I will come.” Well, we quite thought we should, but to 
promise to do so was another thing. Finding our way to 
the Draining Mill below Heigham Bridge, we engaged the 
lad there and his boat to take us up to Hickling. After 
passing through Kendal Dike into the Sounds, we here and 
there “ dragged ” for plants, found many Char as, &c. 
Passing through Deep Dike into Whitesley we took the 
channel near the keeper’s house to Hickling Broad, and 
exactly at the spot marked “ B M 4-6 ” on the 6-inch 
Ordnance Map, my daughter at the bow of the boat brought 
up a lot of aquatics in the “drag.” Passing it to me, I at 
once saw we had Naias ! Giving a good " Hallo,” and 
making the boat rock considerably, I knew we had the new 
British plant. Curiously enough three days after Mr. H. 
Groves went over the same ground and found the Naias, 
being accompanied by the same lad. He said to Mr. Groves : 
“ Be ye from Lon’on after weeds ? Ah, yer too late.” 
He knew the plant again as I had pointed it out to him. 
On my return home I at once posted a fresh specimen to 
Mr. A. G. More, saying : ‘‘You ought to have come, here is 
the new British plant.” 
Since that date it has been found from the first post in 
Heigham Sounds, all through Deep Dike, here and there on 
Whitesley, and the two channels, by “ Rush Hill ” and the 
keeper’s house, as far as the first post in Hickling Broad ; 
beyond this I have not gathered it myself. 
In 1885 Messrs. Hanbury and Holmes found it growing in 
great abundance, and very fine in Martham Broad, on the 
right-hand side about half-way across the Broad, associated 
with Chara stelligera. 
I looked for it in the Old Meadow Dike, and at the entrance 
of Horsey Mere, but the day we were there it blew so hard 
it was hardly safe to cross the Mere ; but it may be there. 
Afterwards I heard the plant had been so “ raided ” as to 
be hardly found, and I asked Mr. Cotton to buy the land. 
On August 8th, 1888, Mrs. Cotton wrote me that “ her 
