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 BOTANY Improved drainage is also gradually extinguishing such plants as Lathyrus pa/ustris, Sonchui pa/ustrisy and Epipactis palustris. Species worthy of Special Notice {Those unique in Division in Larger Type) Brassica oleracea : Pakefield, but not seen recently. [Frankenia laevis used to grow in Lothingland.] Holosteum umbellatum is very rare ; old walls at Eye and Hoxne are localities where it was first observed in 1836 and last in 1889. [Linum angustifoHum is supposed no longer to grow about Lowestoft, where once it flourished.] Medicago falcata : Lowestoft and Stuston. M. mi/lima : Lowestoft. Trifolium suffocatum grows at Bungay, Lowestoft and Gorleston. Lathyrus palustris is recorded from many localities in the north-east of this division, such as North Cove, Oulton, Beccles, Blundeston, &c., and certainly still grows in some of them. Poterium officinale : Palgrave. Pyrus torminalis : Bungay. This is possibly on the Norfolk side of the river, as Stock's list of Bungay plants — on which many records rely — included both counties. This fact must be noted also in connexion with other species. Peucedanum palustre : Several localities in the north-east of the division, as North Cove Fritton, Blundeston, &c. [Diotis candidissima, now killed by sea encroachments, formerly grew between Lowestoft and Pakefield.] [Senecio palustris, it is feared, is now quite extinct in its old localities at Lothingland, Worlingham, Lound, Haddiscoe, and near Yarmouth.] Sonchus palustris : This formerly grew in five or six localities in marshes not far from the Waveney between Beccles and Yarmouth, and in the Oulton district, and still exists in at least two of them ; it is also recorded from Palgrave. Known as the marsh sow-thistle, this fine species is now very scarce, and disappearing in East Anglia ; it has not been seen in Essex for some forty years; in Cambridgeshire the last example occurred about 1850; records also exist from Middlesex, Huntingdonshire, and North Lincolnshire. It still grows by the Thames and Medway in Kent, also in Oxfordshire and South Lincolnshire ; and was seen in East Norfolk up to 1899 (see Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. viii, 35). Campanula latifolia : About Shipmeadow. Schollera OCCycoccus : Worlingham Common, near Beccles ; prob- ably extinct now. [Pyrola rotundifolia has not been seen for many years in its old locality near Bradwell, where it is reported that only a single example ever existed.] Erythnea littoralis : Lowestoft and Gorleston ; but not reported by recent observers. Gentiana Pneumonanthe : Considered by Dr. Hind and others to be probably extinct in Suffolk, although it had several localities, as Carlton, Hopton, and Corton Heaths ; there must be some suitable spots where this beautiful plant should be searched for anew ; it still grows in Norfolk in plenty in similar situations. [Myosotis repens ; One doubtful record alone for Suffolk — St. Margaret's. It may be really absent, only reaching as far east as Cambridgeshire.) Orobanche ramosa. Now extinct. It formerly grew in three or four places as a parasite upon hemp which is no longer cultivated. It also occurred upon Galeopsis tetrahit in one spot.] Verhascum pulverulentum is said to be now extinct in its two or three known localities between Fritton and Oulton and at Gorleston, but should be searched for. [^Limosella aquatica no longer grows at Lowestoft, local alterations causing this.] Veronica verna has been found at Lowestoft and V. tri- phyllos at Bungay ; both are more abundant in the ' Breck ' district. Mentha alopecuroides grows at Oakley, and its near ally, M. rotundifolia^ about Withersdale : the former may be known by its longer corolla and calyx-teeth. Chenopodium botryodes : A very rare and uncertain annual, known from near Lowestoft since 1828, where it grows near Southtown Marshes. It is an East Anglian species, also occurring in Kent and Norfolk, and reaching Sussex and Hampshire. Atriplex pedunculata is now very rare or else extinct in its recorded localities at Breydon Water and between Yarmouth and Gorleston. Salicornia appressa : Breydon Water. Urtica pilulifera : This, I fear, may no longer be found in East Suflfblk, where it had half a dozen localities in this division, as Gorleston, Lowestoft, Bungay, &c. Malaxis paludosa lias been found at Belton and south of Fritton Decoy ; it probably no longer occurs in the former locality. Gagea fascicularis grows at Shipmeadow in some plenty. Potamogeton angustifolius : Beccles. Ruppia maritima : Lowestoft and Southtown, Ryn- chospora alba is possibly now lost at Lound and Belton Bog, owing to drainage. Scirpus cernuus : Lowestoft. Carex limosa : Belton Bog. A very local plant in the south, its head quarters being Northern Britain. It occurs, however, in Norfolk and Holland. Panicum 59