146 MR. G. H. HARRIS ON THE FLORA OF GREAT YARMOUTH DISTRICT. 
Warren. That is a locality with which I have no acquaintance. 
Hahenaria bifolia, said, by Paget, to be extinct, is very plentiful in 
the copses about Carlton Colville. Sjriranthes autumnalis , of 
which Paget makes no mention, grows near Lound. Of the 
Asj)h odelacem, Ornitlioyalum umheUafum found in 1820 near 
St. Bennet’s Abbey, was found in the spring of 1894 at Burgh; 
and Leucojum aesfivum of the Amaryllidece, a flower not 
chronicled in Paget, was found about the same time at Lound. 
Both were probably escapes. When I have mentioned that one 
plant of Armeria vulgaris, and an occasional specimen of Linum 
usitatissimum has appeared on the South Denes, all of which were 
probably escapes, I think I have particularised everything worth 
mentioning. 
I dare say it will not have escaped the notice of my hearers that 
the general trend of my remarks leads up to the fact that in the 
flora of Yarmouth, as in both the fauna and flora of many other 
places, the tendency is towards a dead level of uniformity. There 
is very little doubt that under the new influences that engineering and 
scientific agriculture bring to bear on waste places, such specialized 
and peculiar flora as the salt marshes and the Denes support must 
give way to the ordinary flora of the pasturage and corn-land. 
New flowers, such as Claytonia perfoliata are not often introduced, 
and so the botanist that undertakes the duty of chronicler, must 
content himself with the melancholy task of recording the gradual 
disappearance of an interesting flora. 
It is rather a strange thing that the South and North Denes, 
although so similar in soil and originally connected as one 
continuous strip of land should be gradually diverging from each 
other in the matter of flora. It is an undoubted fact that within 
the last ten years Sedum anglicum and Galium saxatile have both 
disappeared entirely from the South Denes. Other changes I have 
mentioned. It is to be remembered that the^ South Denes is 
now entirely isolated from any kindred soil, bounded as it is 
by the town, and surrounded by the river and high lands of 
Gorleston. 
The disappearance of woodland plants in Paget’s time, and their 
re-appearance since, is another feature characterising the interval 
of fifty years. Anenome nemorosa, Oxalis acetosel/a, and Sanicula 
europaea have already been mentioned. The Moschatel , another 
