142 MR. G. H. HARRIS ON THE FLORA OF GREAT YARMOUTH DISTRICT. 
Of the Violaoeie I have not much to say, except to agree with 
your President that in all probability Paget made an oversight when 
he included Viola lutea. At the same time one often wonders 
whether the Dog Yiolet that grows on the Denes ought not to be 
elevated to the dignity of a variety. Its leaves are never cordate, 
but always oblong-lanceolate, a characteristic of Viola lutea. 
I think, too, its stipules will not be found to correspond closely 
with those of Viola canina, though that most important part, the 
fruit, shows, so far as I can see, no essential difference. The fact 
that it not only grows on a sandy soil, but favours it, flourishing 
best on those parts of the Denes which are least rich, lends coun- 
tenance to the view that it is a variety. 
The mention Paget gives of Qirccea lutetiana would lead one 
to think that in his time the plant was uncommon. “ Lanes, 
Browston, Mr. Turner,” his notice runs, so apparently he had never 
seen it himself. It is of quite frequent occurrence now in the 
district. Amongst the rarer Umbelliferse, Pencedanum officinale is 
becoming distinctly uncommon, owing to the draining of the salt 
marshes. Crithmum maritimum, said to have been found by 
Mr. Wigg, is buried in the region of myth. It is extremely unlikely 
it evef occurred, as reported, amongst the Ilemsby marrams. Its 
distribution, and the fact that rocks are necessary to its growth, 
make the sandy soil of the warren, near Hemsby, one of the most 
unlikely places in which to find it. Faniiculum vulfjare is still, as 
Paget says, not uncommon. Bupleurum tenuissimum I have not 
seen. Smyrnium olusatrum , which Paget reports as rare, has spread 
in an extraordinary manner in the neighbourhood of Gorleston, 
where in many hedge-banks it is, in its season, the most prominent 
flower. This is, I think, the most remarkable instance of increase 
I can put on record. Erym/iwn maritimum , although still common 
about Caister, has lost a good deal of ground on the South Denes, 
owing to the devastations of visitors. Sanicula europaea , chronicled 
by Paget as “rather rare,” is another instance of a woodland plant 
easy enough to find in certain woods, though evidently regarded by 
Paget as uncommon. 
•Tne natural order Kubiaceie, to which Paget gives the name 
of Stellate?,, is represented on the North Denes by Galium verum 
and Galium saxatile. Of these two the former is quite common 
on the South Denes; lmt the latter has become extinct within the 
