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last ten years, affording another instance, with Sedum anylicum, of 
the gradual extirpation of typical Denes flora which is taking place 
there. The CapnfoliacecB include a plant, Samhucus etmlns , of 
which I am rather anxious to inquire whether it is common about 
Norwich. I found one luxuriant specimen of this handsome shrub 
growing near Stalham, hut that is the solitary instance. Paget 
cites it as occurring at Gorleston and Acle, hut, apparently, it had 
not come under his own observation. Of (lie Composite I think 
Solidayo viryanrea is more common than it was fifty years ago. 
Cineraria palnxtris has not come under my notice, though it may 
very likely still grow in some of the more remote marshes. 
Achillea /darrnica is common at Beccles ; but decidedly rare in this 
district, llelminthiu eehioidett is another instance with Smyrniitm 
olusatrum of a plant that has pushed itself to the front since 
Paget’s time. Quoted as rare, and growing in fields near Bradwell 
in his ‘ Flora,’ it is now much more profuse, and may be found 
in great abundance on North Brevdon Walls. Of the Sol ana ma- 
lt would seem that Atropa hc/ladonna was too rare even in 
Paget’s time to have been seen by him. I cannot say I have 
seen it ; but I was told that on the excursion last year of the 
Yarmouth Branch of the Naturalists’ Society to Ormeshy, a 
specimen was found near the Broad. As a good deal of uncertainty 
seemed to exist in my informant’s mind, perhaps 1 may be able to 
find a corroboration of his statement from some of those gentlemen 
belonging to the mother Society, who were present at that excursion, 
if any are here to-night. It is a great pity that Hyoseyaoms niyer, 
a curious and handsome, though somewhat dangerous, plant should 
have been smothered by the mud heaps of the Port and Haven 
Commissioners. -lust that locality where the Commissioners 
pitched their mud on the South Denes was its last retreat. It used 
to grow, according to Paget, plentifully on the North Denes, but 
no trace of it is to be found there now. These rubbish heaps are 
being gradually Cleared away, so there is just a hope that 
a resuscitation of Hyoscyamus niyer may occur. 
Amongst the Lahiahe, the very local distribution of Salvia 
verhenaca is, perhaps, worthy of remark. Given by Paget as 
growing in Gorleston churchyard and cliffs, it is now also to be found 
growing plentifully in St. Nicholas’ churchyard. On Gorleston 
cliffs it is fairly abundant, but certainly does not grow with the 
