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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK Chediston. Pyrola rotundifolia : Near Theberton. Erythnea littoralis : Sizewell. Verbas- cum puherulentum : Dunwich. Veronica verna : Cookley and Thorpe. Its head quarters are in the * Breck ' district. V. trlphyllos, another ' Breck ' plant, grows at Snape and Aldeburgh. Mentha rotundifolia : Chediston. Scutellaria minor : Friston. Cyclamen hederaefoHum : Henham Park, Bramfield (fig. in English Botany), and Abbey Wood, Sibton. One of the rarest of British plants, if indeed a native of this country, which its distribution in Southern Europe is against. Besides Suffolk, it grows apparently wild in woods near Sandhurst, Kent, and Borrer also considered it native near Hastings, Sussex. Statice Bahusiensis : Walberswick. Suaeda frilticosa is a scarce plant of Southern England ; it occurs about Walberswick and Aldeburgh. Salicornia appressa : Aldeburgh. S. radicans : Orford. ji triplex pedunculata is of Germanic type, and occurs about Walberswick, Shingle Street, and Aldeburgh. It is an uncertain annual of salt marshes, where plants of such duration are extremely rare, in Kent, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Cambridgeshire, but probably extinct in the last two counties. It has been reported from Connemara, Ireland (see Tram. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. viii, 40). Hippophae rhamnoides : Thorpe. [^Daphne Mezereum formerly grew at Laxfield.] Urtica pilulifera : Thorpe and Aldeburgh. OrcMs h'lrcina : A single specimen of this fine orchis was found on gravel at Great Glemham in 1847, ''"'■ ^^ '^'^^ been seen there since. In former years it grew in West Kent (1879) and it has been reported from Surrey and Hamp)- shire ; it exists still in East Kent, near Wye, and was found in Sussex in 1907. Polygonatum riiultiflorum : Sternfield. Gagea fascicularis : Great Glemham. ^Damasomum Stellatum formerly grew at Framlingham.] Ruppia maritima : Aldeburgh and Orford. Scirpus cemuus : Snape. S. rufus grows (or grew) by the edge of the Mere, Aldeburgh, but has not been reported recently. It is quite a northern species, of Watson's Scottish type, and is completely out of its range in Suffolk, where it is much farther south than any other locality in Britain. It occurs also in Holland. Carex divisa may be seen at Southwold, Dunwich, and Hollesley, chiefly growing by the side of brackish ditches. Spartina stricta : Aldeburgh and Orford neigh- bourhoods. Apera interrupta, one of the ' Breck ' plants ; grows on Westleton Heath. Weingaertneria canescens occurs in three or four places on the coast between Easton Broad and- Pakefield. Poa bulhosa may be observed, early in the year, at Southwold and Aldeburgh. Glyceria Borreri grows between Dunwich and Walberswick. Bromus madritensis : Westleton Heath. Lastraa cristata has been known for many years at Westleton Decoy. 5. Waveney This is coloured brown on map, lies in the north-east of the county, and includes all that portion drained by the River Waveney and its tributaries, the Beck, Dove, &c. Geologically, by far the greater part of this division is composed of the variable sands, clays, and gravels belonging to the Norwich Crag ; westward of Oakley, however, the under- lying chalk crops up again. The coast between Lowestoft and Yarmouth includes a range of low hills, grassy denes, and sand dunes. Interesting fen-lands occur near the Waveney between Beccles and Yarmouth, and produced many a rarity in days gone by ; even now it is a home for many interesting species, such as Lathyrus palustris, Slum latifolium, Peucedanum palustre, Sonchus palustris, [Senecio palustris,] Myrica, Malaxis, Cladium, Carex limasa, C. filiformis, Lastnea cristata ; a number of these only occur elsewhere in the county in the extreme west. Fritton Decoy, Oulton and Barnby Broads, Lake Lothing, and Breydon Water are in this division. Of late years the changes round Lowestoft and Yarmouth have destroyed, or caused to become scarce, many species mentioned in Dr. Hind's Flora as occurring in these neighbour- hoods ; the crumbling away of cliffs, too, between Lowestoft and Kessingland, is another cause of the disappearance of some plants ; and Lowestoft Denes, again, are much altered, and many species diminished in numbers by sea incursions, protective and harbour works, golf links, &c. The vegetation around Lake Lothing has altered much in recent years, and very little salt marsh is left ; boat-building yards are chiefly responsible for this. The * Bogs at Lound,' frequently referred to by Dr. Hind and others, have been much interfered with by the late alterations connected with the Lowestoft Waterworks, and now can scarcely be said to exist. S8