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36 STATIONS OF SOME PLYMODTH RUBI.
cut leaves, grew some years ago on a bank at the top of Crown Hill,
Knackersknowle ; but works in connection with the new fortifications
around Plymouth having, since then, rriade it necessary for the bank
to be levelled, it was entirely destroyed a few years ago. Mr. Bloxam
at first regarded it as a variety oi fruticosHS, W. and N., but now, I
believe, considers it was the R. laclniatus of Willdenow, and distinct.
I incline to his first opinion as to its being a variety.
R. lencostacJiys, Sm. In waste spots by roadsides. The typical
plant is easily recognized, but puzzling ones near it often occur. In
a quarry by the Plymouth and Saltash road ; in a waste spot between
Knackersknowle
Womb well, etc.
and Taraerton Poliott, near the abandoned mine
R. Salteri; a. Salteri, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. G. "Bloxam."
Eather frequent in low but open situations. On the right bank of the
Plym, in a marsh below Crabtree, also on the same side of that river
near Leigham Lodge ;
by the Egg Bucklaud road, near Plym Bridge ;
under some trees, forming a small grove in one of the marshes between
the Laira estuary and Plympton St, Mary church ; in a waste spot
near Newnham, close to the bridge over Tory Brook, and by the lane
leading up by the latter place out on Crownhill Down ; in the vale of
the Yealm, by the path leading from the village of Cornwood to the
waterfalls ; by the Plymouth and Yealmpton road, near Brixton, just
beyond the fourth milestone from Plymouth ; between Ivybridge and
Ermington ; a bush on a hedgebank by the Plymouth and Tavistock
road, between Powisland and the George Hotel, etc. The wavy
edges of the leaves, and, as Mr. Bloxam observes, " sepals at right
angles with the flower," give this a peculiar appearance. He has had
specimens of me from many of the stations named above, and says that
this plant is quite distinct from his calvatus ; but Professor Babington
firmly maintains the contrary, for, after examining specimens that I sent
him from the station near Brixton, he wrote, " I think your SaL'eri,
from ]5rixton is the )8. of that plant, viz. calvatus o^ illoxnm.', certainly
not the true 7?. Salteri of the Isle of Wight."
R. ciilratus, Blox. The Bev. A. Bloxam says that a plant that
grows rather plentifully in hedges near Beer Alstone is this. It occurs
also in- a hedge between Eoborough and Lopwell, near a house named
Axtcr Gate, but seems to be a local plant. Mr. Baker also has had it
of me from the former station, and he regards it as the true Salteri, a.
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