8 mr. w. g. clarke’s botanical notes from breckland. 
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BOTANICAL NOTES FROM BRECKLAND. 
By W. G. Clarke. 
Read 28 th September, 1909. 
That area of south-west Norfolk and north-west Suffolk 
whose characteristics I have previously described,* is still 
blessed with a flora so rich in rarities, and offers such 
attractions to the botanist, that some of the notes made in 
the district during the present summer may not be without 
interest to members of the Society. Apart from brief visits 
in April, June, and July, the chief observations were made 
during the last fortnight in August, many of them in company 
with Mr. W. H. Burrell, F.L.S., whose identifications it has 
been unnecessary to confirm save in the instance of a fern 
new to East Anglia, and a very rare grass. In August 
I made numerous notes on the plant-associations of thirteen 
heathland localities, and of eight marsh areas ; but these are 
too bulky to utilise now, and I am not prepared to draw 
conclusions from them, so that ' I shall confine myself to 
mentioning the more uncommon plants, with references to 
their distribution. 
In June I noted Thalictrum minus , L., growing in abundance 
on the south slope of Thetford Castle Hill, where it had 
previously been observed by Mr. H. D. Hewitt, and Arabis 
hirsuta, Scop., abundantly on Barnham Cross Common, by 
the road between the Norwich turnpike and Ringmere, 
18 inches high on the road to Lingheath, Brandon, near the 
Drove in Santon, and at Weeting — a common flower in the 
district. Helianthemnm chamcecistus. Mill, was noted near 
* Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. viii. pp. 555 — 578. 
