Flora of Western Norfolk. 171 eies, E. macrocarpum, is indigenous ; it cannot have escaped from cultivation, because the plant so common in gardens is E. angustifolium. Discovered by my friend Mr. G. K. Thwaites in the lower portion of Leigh Wood, Somerset, in a coppice which had been cut two years ago, a situation very distant from any ha-bitation. Henry Oxley Stephens. Bristol, 3 Terrill Street, Aug. 26, 1841. XXIII. — A List of Flowering Plants found growing wild in Western Norfolk. By the Rev. George Munford*, Cor-responding Member of the Botanical Society of London. The tract of country embraced by the hundreds of Freebridge Lynn, Freebridge Marshland, Clackclose and Smithdon, and which forms the western side of the county of Norfolk, con-tains the remarkable district called Marshland — a part of the great level of the Fens, and the higher ground bordering on the Wash, which lies between the counties of Norfolk and Lincolnshire. From the extent and variety of this field, it will easily be seen that the botanist will find in it ample space for the ex-ercise of his favourite pursuit. Local advantages, derived from a residence of almost twenty years in the principal and central town of the district, maybe supposed to enable the compiler of the following list to cor-rect, in some few instances, the errors into which others, not residing on the spot, may have fallen ; and perhaps to point out here and there a new locality for some of the rarer plants growing in the neighbourhood. It is with this view that, with the kind assistance of two or three botanical friends also residing on the spot, the attempt has been made to give, as far as possible, a correct and per-fect list of the plants that are found growing wild in Western Norfolk. As little more has been done than to collect into one place what was previously known, but scattered throughout several published works, it may appear that labour and pains have been unnecessarily expended ; but the employment itself has served to fill up, and very agreeably to amuse, many a leisure hour, and will tend to refresh the memory when the power of searching for these favourite objects of pursuit in the place of their growth shall no longer exist. * Read before the Botanical Society of London, Gth August, 1841.
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