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ai8 NOTES RESPECTING SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS.
of the commonest species in marshy valleys, growing with Pedicularis
palustris, Myrica, etc.
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Medicoffodenticulaia, WiWd.—Many plants on a low cliff at Seaton,
near Looe, Cornwall, June, 1869.
Lathyrns Nissolia, L. Plentiful in a piece of ground rendered
waste, w'ithin a few years, by the Plymouth fortification works, situated
between S. Budeaux and Honicknowle, June, 1869. Some plants
produced flowers of a flesh colour ; others had them of the ordinary
crimson tint. This Latkyrus seems not so much as naturalized any-
where near Plymouth.
Acjrimonia odorala, Mill.—By the road leading to Quethiock village
from the St. German's and Callington road, Cornwall ; in some quan-
tity, and not confined to one spot, July, 1869. Less plentiful in a
lane near Landulph, in the same county.
Pyrus Scandica, Bab.—I now consider this handsome shrub indige-
nous in the neighbourhood of Plymouth {vide Seemann, Journ. Bot.,
Vol. VI. p. 327). Two large bushes grow in a native wood, principally
of oak, between Koborough Down and the river Plym, near Hoo
Meavy. One of these had in August last many cymes of unripe fruit,
and close by were two young bushes that had sprung from seed
one of them of only two or three years' growth. In a neighbouring
wood was another fine bush, with fruit. The allied species, Pyrus
tormhialis, Ehrh., is thinly scattered over S.W. Devon and S.E. Corn-
wall, in hedgerows and copses.
Epilohium lanceolatum, Seb.—On rubble from the S. Devon slate
quaiTies, between Ugborough and Ivybridge, copiously. May, 1869.
Physospermnm Cornubiense, De Cand.—The fact that this species
grows plentifully in the neighbourhood of Bodmin, Cornwall, has been
long known to British botanists ; but probably ^ew are aware that an-
other portion of this county also produces it in great abundance. I
did not know that such was the case until I met with the following
statement, from an anonymous Avriter in the ' Journal of- the Royal In-
stitution of Cornwall,' April, 1868 :— "Some of our rarest plants are
fortunately so abundant in the localities in which they are found, that
there is- not the slightest possibility of their extermination. This is
the case with the Physospermum, which abounds in every bushy field
in a direct line between Halton Quay, on the banks of the Tamar, and
Newton Perrers, on the river Lynlier. My attention was first drawn
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