144 MR. G. H. HARRIS ON THE FLORA OF GREAT YARMOUTH DISTRICT. 
freedom that characterises it in Gorleston churchyard, from which 
it is, perhaps, an escape. If that is so, we should have a plant 
confined in its habitat to two churchyards. The question, of 
course, arises, — was Salvia verbenaca planted in times gone by in 
burying-places for any particular reason l Plants, possessing 
medicinal virtues, such as Aristolochia were, we know, grown near 
monastic establishments, and are, at the present day, confined 
almost entirely to these spots. The flower in question must, at 
one time, have been highly prized for certain curative properties ; 
for its name, Salvia, is derived from the Latin verb salvo, to heal. 
There were large monastic foundations both at Gorleston and 
Yarmouth. I would suggest that the plant was grown by the 
monks in the monastic precincts, and also, owing to the luxuriance 
of vegetative life, in the churchyards. The sites of all the 
convents in both places being now entirely covered by houses, 
would leave the two churchyards as the only surviving habitats 
of the Labiate. 
But, on the other hand, if this is so, Paget should have seen 
it growing in St. Nicholas’ churchyard, a locality it would have 
been more natural for him to mention than Gorleston. 
Hippopliace rhamnoides, belonging to the natural order Elaeag- 
naeece is, perhaps, becoming more limited in range, as I know of it 
only as growing immediately opposite Hemsby, on the cliffs. 
Paget locates it in Caister also, and calls it abundant. 
The difficult family Chenapodiaceat has probably finally lost 
Atriplex portulaeoides and A laciniafce. Last summer your 
President wrote me, asking me to obtain for him a dozen specimens 
of Atriplex pedunculata , which, he said, were to be found in 
the damp, salt marshes in Cobholm and Runham in profusion. 
Unfortunately, in both Cobholm and Runham, the number of 
marshes has been considerably reduced, large spaces, originally 
vacant, having been covered with houses ; many marshes which are 
left are not half so damp as they were ; and of these marshes 
which are still in their pristine dampness, hardly one is salt, 
the result of the assiduous draining and river wall building of the 
last fifty yeai’s. So, although I hunted the river banks and 
inquired of marshmen the way to the most saline spot, my search 
was futile. I did not find a single specimen. And at Herne Hill, 
Lowestoft, a locality 1 regard as a typical survival of the salt- 
