NOTES ON SOME RARER NORFOLK PLANTS. 
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because their distribution is of special interest to East Anglian 
botanists. 
In placing these and previous plant records in their proper 
divisions, we have had difficulty with the borderland parishes — 
a difficulty that has arisen in the past, and must continue to do 
so while indefinite boundaries leave many square miles of land 
unplaced. 
The County divisions now recognised by the Society were 
first suggested by the Rev. G. Munford in the botanical section 
of White’s “ Norfolk,” 3rd Ed., 1864. In a paper read before 
the N. & N. Nat. Soc., April 27th, 1869, Mr. H. D. Geldart 
dealt with the division of the County for botanical purposes, 
and accepted M unford’s scheme, the features of which he 
summarised as follows : — 
The Eastern Division, bounded on the west by an imaginary 
line drawn from Cromer to a little east of Harleston ; contains 
the whole of the ‘ Broad ” country. 
The Western Division, bounded on the east by a line drawn 
from Brancaster to two or three miles west of Thetford ; 
contains the whole of the “ Fen ” country. 
The North Central and South Central Divisions, separated 
by a line drawn from Norwich to Swaffham ; contain the high 
land lying between the Eastern and Western Divisions. 
When presenting his “ First List of Flowering Plants and 
Ferns,” in 1875, Mr. Geldart admitted the difficulty of dealing 
with stations lying near the boundaries, and his arbitrary 
allotment of Brancaster and Swaffham to the North Central 
and West Divisions respectively had for its only justification 
precision in the work then being dealt with. 1 
Our inclination has been to adhere as nearly as possible to 
Munford’s scheme, but to superimpose an interpretation of his 
boundaries that will allow any small area to be allotted with 
precision, and yet leave undisturbed for general use the 
boundaries originally laid down. After consulting large scale 
maps, accessible in the public libraries, parallels of latitude and 
longitude have seemed to us the best solution of the problem ; 
1. Vol. II., p. 72, Traus. N. & N. Nat. Soc. 
