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BOTANY Leucojum aestivum is plentiful at Little Stonham, and is also found near Great Bealings Church. This is a beautiful plant, and where found in abundance, as by the River Lodden in Berkshire, it whitens the meadows and banks in late April. Gagea fmcicularh is known in four places in the Ipswich neighbourhood. Rupp'ta spiralis and Carex divisa may be found at Bawdsey, Felixstowe, and Walton. Panicum glahrum : Ipswich and Shottisham, Spartina stricta : Ipswich, Ramsholt, and Walton Ferry. Poa bulhosa may be observed on Felix- stowe Common and at the mouth of the River Deben. Glyceric Borreri : Walton. Festuca uniglumis : Near Landguard Fort. Lastrcea cristata : Bexley Decoy, near Ipswich. This is a decreasing species in England, known from almost a dozen counties, but believed to be extinct now in most ; it certainly still occurs in Norfolk in abundance, and probably exists in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire (see Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. vii, 695). 4. Ore Coloured yellow on map and lies in the east of the county, and includes by far the greater portion of the coast line. It is watered by the River Ore (called the Aide above Aldeburgh), receiving the Butley River near its mouth, and other smaller streams ; north of the Ore, in the order named, occur Hundred River (running into Thorpe Mere), Minsmere, Dunwich and Blyth Rivers, and another Hundred River. The whole coast line is generally flat with occasional unimportant cliflfe, and near the shore are found interesting pieces of water known as Benacre, Easton, and Covehithe Broads, all liable to be flooded by the sea at exceptionally high tides ; Thorpe Mere, now much grown over by rushes and coarse grass, also occurs in this division. In two or three places near the coast a few of the remarkable ' Breck ' plants re-appear. This division is composed of Crag deposits, but a great part is covered with Drift. The older Coralline Crags (light yellow calcareous deposits consisting chiefly of organic debris with some sands) are found in a small area between Aldeburgh and Boyton, and Coprolite Beds, belonging to this series, have been worked at Butley, Bawdsey, and Boyton. Red Crag deposits with its usual characteristics are found in the south part of the district, whilst the north part consists of the sands, clay, and pebbly gravels which make up the Norwich Crag. Species worthy of Special Notice {Those unique in Division in Larger Type) Lepidium latifolium : Blythburgh, Snapebridge, and between Aldeburgh and Orford. Crambe maritima is reported from several places between Aldeburgh and South wold, and may still survive, but Dr. Hind believed it to be extinct. Frankenia laevis grows about South- wold and Thorpe. [Linum angustifolium, supposed to be now extinct in Suffolk, undoubtedly once grew at Darsham.] Medicago falcata : Dunwich, Orford, and Sudbourne. M. minima occurs in several places near the coast. Trifolium squamosum : Shingle Street, Hollesley. Said by Lilly Wigg to also grow near Yarmouth in former days (district 5). T. sulcatum : Several spots near the coast. Ficia lutea stills grows on Orford Beach, where it was known as long ago as 1775. Lathyrus maritimus was first found in England at Orford in 1555, and is still there ; it also grows at Aldeburgh. Pyrus tormina lis : Darsham. Fryngium Campestre is now lost at Dunwich (where it undoubtedly grew in 1856) by the cliffs falling away. It was also found in the 17th century at Lothingland (district 5) by Adam Buddie. It is a plant gradually becoming extinct in England ; known from Cornwall, Somerset, Kent, Devonshire, and Northamptonshire, but probably lost now in the last two counties.] Crithmum maritimum : Southwold is the only record for Suffolk, and it has not been observed there in recent years. A decreasing species in England ; as ' Samphire ' it was formerly in much request for pickling and for using in salads. Inula crithmoides, the golden samphire, is used in the same way. Young shoots of glasswort [Salicornia herhaced) are sometimes substituted for the above and sold as marsh samphire. Pulicaria vulgaris : Framlingham. [Diotis candidissima was found in former days in three or four places on the coast between Benacre and Orford, but has not, I think, been seen there at all recently.] Campanula latifoUa : About I 57 8