mr. w. g. clarke’s botanical notes from breckland. ii 
roadside half-way between Thetford and Rushford, on 
a breck south-east of Cranwich Heath, on a breck near the 
inn at Elveden, ii miles from Thetford on the road to 
Newmarket, and on the road from Thetford to Brandon 
opposite Red Castle. Specimens of Melilotus which Mr. 
Burrell and I found at Santon Downham, Brandon, Thetford, 
and Weeting proved to be arvensis, Wallr., On Barnham 
Cross Common I found Trifolium striatum , L., and also noted 
it in abundance half-way from Thetford to Rushford, and 
i| miles from Thetford on the road to Newmarket. During 
the excursion of the “ Prehistoric Society of East Anglia ” in 
July, we noted Spircea fUipendula, L., by the roadside in 
Icklingham, between 7 and 8 miles from Thetford, and also 
on Larling Heath, Elveden, and when I examined the latter 
place in August, there appeared at a rough computation to 
be a plant for every square yard. 
An attractive little heathland plant, so distinctive that 
once familiar with its appearance it is easily identified, even 
from a bicycle, Tillcea muscosa, L., appears to be more 
widely distributed than is generally suspected. It is so small 
that apparently it cannot compete with ordinary heath 
vegetation, and vigilant search has failed to find it away 
from sandy tracks or footpaths where vegetation is very 
scant. In the spring the young plants have in almost all 
cases a bright red appearance, their general aspect being 
otherwise that of dwarf specimens of Sedum. In late summer 
these plants have blossomed and seeded, and the upright 
stalks — this season some of them were over two inches high — 
are a more dingy colour and fluffy. With them are the green 
seedlings which will become next year’s blossoming plants. 
In April I found Tillcea muscosa very abundant, in patches 
easily discernible by their ruddy colour, on the heath roads 
diverging from Little Lodge Farm, Santon Downham, and in 
August found it commonly on six of these tracks on Santon 
Downham Heath, within five minutes’ walk of the farm, 
that is where the traffic tended to consolidate the sandy 
ways, and more deeply-rooted plants could not maintain 
existence. On a similar trackway, the Drove, in June I noted 
