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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK as at Thetford, Mildenhall, Bury, &c. Asperula cynanchica : Watson's Germanic type. A lover of chalk, and frequent in many parts of the district, especially where that formation is exposed. Fl/ago Spathulata has been found near Fornham, Wangford, Icklingham, and Honington, and is doubtless sometimes passed over from its likeness to F. germanica. Aster salignus may be seen in Redgrave Fen. Gnaphalium lllteo-album was un- doubtedly found at Eriswell in the middle of the last century, and as a fragment was sent for identification from Mildenhall in 1896 it may still survive in the district. It is an interesting plant, also found near Wells (recently) and Harling, Norfolk, but now extinct in Cambridge- shire and Sussex ; if, indeed, it ever grew in the latter county. Watson's Germanic type. Antennaria dioica is properly a northern species of Watson's Scottish type, but occurs in isolated spots as far south as Cornwall, Devon, and Hampshire, and also in the lowlands of Hol- land. Its SuflFolk localities are Newmarket, Cavenham, and Culford. Artemisia campestris is locally plentiful in certain spots in the Breck district. It grows now only in West Suffolk and East and West Norfolk, but formerly in Cambridgeshire, where its record in 1650 is its first notice for England. A distinct East Anglian or Germanic type. SeneciO paludosus no longer grows, it is feared, in this county nor in England ; it formerly grew near Laken- heath. It is a Germanic type of plant, and although specimens exist from East and West Norfolk, North and South Lincoln, and Cambridgeshire, it is probably now extinct in all its localities.] 5. paluitris : Brandon, Wangford, and Lackford, but not seen recently. A disappear- ing plant of East Anglia, but it may still exist in East Norfolk. Likely extinct in Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincoln, and West Norfolk, where at one time it undoubtedly grew. (For this and former species, see Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. vi, 457.) S. campestris : First record for England, Newmarket Heath, 1660, where it still grows. Hypochaeris maculata: Newmarket and about Cavenham. First dis- covered in England in 1663 at Newmarket. It is a very local species in England with a decided preference for chalk or limestone (ir<7/ttra/;j/, 1902, p. 369). Gentiatia baltica : Near Bury. Doubtless passed over occasionally for G. campestris (see 'Journ. Bot. 1894, p. 2, and 1904, supp. 124). Primula elatior has a restricted distribution in the county, occur- ring in many localities between Stowmarket and the western boundary and also in a few isolated spots south of Thetford. It grows only on Boulder Clay here and elsewhere in England, and avoids Chalk, Gault, and Greensand ; it only occurs in five other south-eastern counties, and is very local in each (see Journ. Linn. Soc. 1897 (Bot.), xxxiii, 172-20 1, 2inA Journ. Bot. 1903, p. 145). Pulmonaria officinalis grows in abundance in Burgate Wood and at Botesdale, where it seems to exist under truly native conditions (see Phytol. 1862, p. 351). In the wild plant (unlike the garden form) the leaves are unspotted or only very faintly marked. Possibly this is its only native station in England. Verhascum puher- ulentum : A true East Anglian species, Norfolk only besides producing it. It grows about Bury, chiefly to the north and south of that town. Limosella aquatica : Barton Mills. Feronica triphyllos : Norfolk, Suffolk, and Yorkshire only. It grows in many places in the Breck district, usually in sandy fields, flowering in April. ' Mervell in Suffolk' (Ray, 1670) is its first record for Britain. F. verna : Norfolk and Suffolk only; truly Germanic. Abundant in many parts of the Breck district, chiefly on the heaths, flowering in May. First found in Britain near Bury in 1775. V. Spicata : Newmarket Heath and in two or three spots in the Breck district. Also recorded — but erroneously — from Norfolk, but without doubt found in Cambridgeshire. First found as a British plant in 1660 on Newmarket Heath, and I have a specimen collected there in 1902. One of the scarcest of British plants. Melampyrum cristatum : Absent from the Breck district, but occurs in Burgate Wood and in many localities south of a line drawn from Dalham to Norton. JJtricularia intermedia : Thelnetham Fen. Pinguicula vulgaris, of Watson's Scottish type, and rare in most of the southern counties, grows in several places between Redgrave Fen and Hopton, and in the neighbourhoods of Mildenhall and Stowlangtoft. Mentha gentilis : Honington. Scutellaria minor seems to be remarkably scarce in the county ; it is recorded from Tud- denham (where recent observers have failed to find it) and one other locality only. Hermaria glabra : Very local, in the Icklingham, Risby, and Higham districts. It is distinctly East Anglian, known only from Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincoln- shire. Var. subciliata occurs on Kentford Heath. Sckranthus perennis : Many 54