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Downham in August ; while Mr. Burrell and I found Lactuca 
scariola, L., in Santon Downham Park in August, and many 
plants in St. Helen’s Well, Santon, one being 6 feet 4 inches 
in height. On the side of the railway at Bromehill, Weeting, 
Mr. Burrell found several hybrids between Verbascum thapsus 
and nigrum, the leaves being obviously intermediate, while 
two of the stamens had purple hairs (as in nigrum) and three 
white hairs (as in thapsus). 
I visited the Wretham heath meres on August 27th, and 
found Langmere and the Devil’s Punch Bowl quite dry, and 
Ringmere and Fowlmere low. By the southern bay of the last 
named there were many specimens of Rumex maritimus, L., 
and Ringmere was encircled with a belt of the same 
species, while the whole of the dry bed of Langmere was 
filled with a dense growth of vegetation in which Rumex 
maritimus predominated, many of the specimens being a foot 
high, as compared with the i| to 2i inches of those I found 
on the margin of the water last year. I may fittingly mention 
here that Mr. Frank Newton of Saham Toney sent me in 
September a specimen of this plant he had found by Saham 
Mere, miles north of Fowlmere. Mr. Burrell and I found 
Sparganium simplex, Huds., on Wangford Fen, and Spar- 
ganium minimurh, Fr., by Rushford Bridge, and in the Little 
Ouse river below the fourth staunch (in Santon and Santon 
Downham) a typical specimen having a stem 4 feet in 
length, and floating leaves 3 feet long. I found plants of 
the same species 3 inches high in the bed of a small pool a 
few yards from Thompson Water. 
In addition to the distribution previously recorded, that 
maritime species Carex arenaria, L., was noted in the utmost 
profusion on the southern slope of High Lodge Hill, Milden- 
hall ; in Elveden, on the Brandon Road ; abundantly in many 
parts of the parish of Santon Downham ; and sparingly on 
Barnham Cross Common — all in Suffolk ; and on Cranwich 
Heath ; by the Drove between New Buildings and West 
Tofts Belt ; on Garboldisham Heath ; and near Pepper Hill, 
Bromehill House and on the northern heaths, Weeting — in 
Norfolk. 
