BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN WEST NORFOLK. 
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XII. 
BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN WEST NORFOLK, 
WITH NOTES ON THE GENUS UTRICULARIA. 
By W. H. Burrell, F.L.S., and W. G. Clarke. 
Read 28 th February , 1911. 
That Norfolk has still unrecorded treasures for the botanist, 
and comparatively unexplored areas where the profusion and 
diversity of the flora provide hours of delight in the field and 
pleasurable recollections in the study, was abundantly proved 
in a ten days’ cycling tour which we undertook in July last, 
mainly in Munford’s West division of the county, but partly 
in the South Central division, with a brief excursion into 
North-west Suffolk. 
To the county list we were able 'to add Veronica spicata ,* 
which had been once previously recorded for Norfolk, but 
the specimen subsequently proved to be V. officinalis. In 
the 10th edition of the ‘ London Catalogue ’ it is recorded 
for three counties — Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, and West 
Suffolk, and the colony we found was probably as flourishing 
as any in the country, for growing amongst bracken on 
undisturbed heathland near Thetford, in the South Central 
Division, were several hundred plants, presenting a most 
beautiful appearance. The specimens we brought ranged 
from one 3§ ins. long with a flowering spike of if ins. to one 
9J ins. in length with a spike of 2I ms. One 6 ins. in length 
had 30 laxly arranged flowers, with a spike if ins. in length, 
and one 7f ins. with a spike of 2\ ins. had approximately 
100 flowers, though they were too dense to count. 
Another find of interest to Norfolk botanists was the 
re-discovery of Malaxis paludosa in the county. Writing in 
* The nomenclature is that of the ‘ London Catalogue,’ 10th edition. 
