626 NOTES ON SOME RARER NORFOLK PLANTS. 
erect habit, but not the rigidly spreading broad leaf segments. 
On July 19th, 1911, we found Gnaphalium luteo-album on 
a sandy field immediately north of the enclosure in which 
Thompson Water is situated. The “ London Catalogue ” 
records this plant for three vice-counties, presumably W. 
Norfolk, W. Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Its appearances in 
the Eastern Counties have, however, been very few. It was 
recorded in 1802 (“English Botany”) as having been found 
between Hauxton and Little Shelford in Cambridgeshire ; in 
Hooker’s “British Flora” (1831) from fields at Larlingford, 
Norfolk, on the authority of the Rev. G. R. Leathes ; and in 
Henslow and Skepper’s “Flora of Suffolk” (i860) from 
Eriswell, where it was found by Eagle in 1852. In 1896 a 
fragment from Mildenhall was sent to Mr. Burkitt for identifi- 
cation and mentioned by Mr. Arthur Bennett in the “Journal 
of Botany.” In 1883 2 3 the Rev. E. F. Linton recorded it for 
Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, and described it as “self-sown if 
not indigenous over a large piece of uncultivated land not far 
from the sea near Wells.” Here, many hundred plants were 
seen. In August, 1899, Mr. James Saunders noted it on what 
was possibly the same locality which he described as on the 
more easterly of two sandy flats among the sand-dunes about 
midway between the entrance to Wells Harbour and Holkham 
Bay, on the seaward side of the pine-trees.' 1 He also found 
some hundreds of plants, all unbranched, most erect in habit, 
and only a few slightly decumbent at the base. Mr. Saunders 
considered that it was no doubt native in this locality. In 1909 
Mr. C. E. Salmon recorded it for Burnham Overy. 
Excluding the Channel Islands, there are eight records for 
Gnaphalium luteo-album in England during the past century, 
all of them in the Eastern Counties. It is somewhat interesting 
to note that the Cambridgeshire locality was on the border of 
the alluvium of the Cam valley, those in Suffolk in the same 
position in the Lark valley, that at Larlingford in a similar 
situation in the Thet valley and that at Thompson in a like 
2. Transactions of the N. and N. Naturalists’ Society, Vol. III., p. 5fi3. 
3. Journ. Bot., 1899, p. 519. 
