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BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN WEST NORFOLK. 
Warren in Thetford to over 2 ft. in a field at Great Cressing- 
ham. Other localities were Cranwich, Swaffham Heath, 
Narborough Field, Narford, Cockley Cley Warren, and 
Weeting (near the Devil’s Dyke). What was undoubtedly 
an unprotected and genuinely wild specimen of Osmunda 
regalis was found in the heart of the swamp on Roydon 
Common ; and in August one of us, in company with Mr. 
Frank Newton, found half a dozen clumps in a wood at 
Cranberry, Great Hockham, where, Mr. T. Baring of Hockham 
Hall informs us, it is undoubtedly indigenous. 
From this and previous examinations we formed the 
opinion that the west division produces a Moss flora very 
similar to other parts of the county. Sphagnum was sub- 
ordinate to Hypnum, though forming large, deep cushions, 
equalled in few places elsewhere in the county, at Roydon. 
Westacre and Grimston. Eleven species were noted, the 
most interesting being Sphagnum cymbifolium var. squarrosu- 
lum, which was found at Cranberry, Hockham (v.c. 28), the 
only previous Norfolk record being Horning (v.c. 27). Last 
year appears to have been very favourable for the production 
of spores in cryptogams. The Sphagnum cushions at 
Roydon, including Sphagnum rigidum, which we do not 
remember to have seen fruiting elsewhere, were covered with 
capsules, while Hypnum stramineum and H. elodes, equally rare 
fruiters, were found with capsules at Westacre and Caldecote 
respectively. The somewhat rare Hypnum elodes was 
growing in profusion on Caldecote Fen, as it does on Toft- 
wood Fen, and some of the Broadland marshes. Amongst 
other uncommon plants Dicranum spurium, from Roydon 
Common, was new to Watson’s Ouse Province ; Eurhyncium 
tenellum from Narborough was recorded by Munford and the 
Pagets ; while the distribution of Sphcerocarpus Michelii was 
traced to the west of Swaffham. 
During the summer, while visiting some of the “ wet 
commons ” of the county, we had many opportunities of 
studying the genus Utricularia. The floating branches of 
U. vulgaris are said to extend to a foot or more, but in turf- 
pits on East Ruston Common, one branch was just over 
