'Natural Historic in the English Counties. 1 6 1 



Cornwall. 



• List of rare Plants found in tlie NeighbourJiood of Penzance. — Sir, The 

 county of Cornwall being the most western part of the island, possessing 

 considerable peculiarities of soil and climate, and containing, moreover, 

 very extensive tracts of uncultivated land almost in a primitive state of 

 nature, may be expected to afford some corresponding peculiarities in its 

 native flora. The following list of rare plants, which I observed during a 

 residence of some months chiefly in the neighbourhood of Penzance, may 

 not, perhaps, be unacceptable to some of your readers. In offering it, how- 

 ever, to your notice, I beg to state that I entirely agree with several of 

 your correspondents, that, in some of the lists of rare plants forwarded to 

 you for insertion in your Magazine, articles of very common occurrence 

 have been occasionally introduced, and such as have no claim to be dis- 

 tinguished as rarities ; and, perhaps, I have not myself been altogether free 

 from the fault complained of. I promise, therefore, on the present occa- 

 sion, that the list shall be more select, and, accordingly, shall not include 

 in it many plants which yet might not improperly be ranked inter rariores : 

 such, for instance, as Neottia spiralis, O'rchis pyramidalis, Terbascum 

 nigrum, *S'myrnium Olusatrum, Osmundrt regalis, &c. I have also excluded 

 many maritime plants, such as G^laucium flavum. Convolvulus Soldanella, 

 ^rjngium maritimum, Crithmum maritimum, Erodium marltimum, ^'ster 

 T^ripolium, &c. 



To those plants which I have never happened to have met with in a 

 native state, except in the county of Cornwall, a double asterisk is affixed, 

 thus (**). 



Pin'guicula lusitanica. Bogs near Penzance. iJumex sanguineus. Gulval. 



Utricularia vulgJlris. Between Rosemorran and ^lisraa Damasbnium. Between Penzance and 



Kenegie. Marazion. 



**Panicum Dactylon. Beach between Penzance **£rica vagans. Near the Lizard, Soap Rock, 



and Marazion. Kinance Cove, and between Kelston and 



»*^riza m"inor. Corn fields between Ludgvan Mullyon (several varieties in colour). 



and Gulval ; plentifully. Saponkria ofticinalis. St. Levan, Tresco Island, 



**£'xacurn filif6rme. Marsh between Pen Scilly. 



zance and Marazion. Silene anglica. Corn fields (very common), 



.dnchilsa officinalis. St. Ives, Scilly Islands. 



CampanulaAederacea. Moist banks in the neigh. ArenSiria verna. Kinance Cove. 



bourhood of Penzance, &c., Scilly Islands. £uph6rbefl! portlindica. Brehar Island, Scilly. 



**ChirbnJ« littoralis. Beach between Penzance ** Paralias. Scilly Islands. 



and Marazion. i^fibus saxatilis. Near Bodmin. 



5amolus Valerandi. Land's End. A quil^gia vulgaris. St. Ives, Lelant, &c. 



«*/l!ecebrum verticillatum. Gear Stamps, //ell^borus viridis. Between Rosemorran and 



Gulval, Land's End. Kenegie. 



**Herni^ria hirsuta. Between Mullyon and Mentha rotundifblia. Between Penzance and 



the Liz.ard. Newlyn, Whitesand Bay. 



**Da(jcus maritimus. Land's End, Logan Bartszaviscbsa. f Kogs near Penzance, &c.,fre- 



Stone, Botallach Mine, St. Ives, &c. quent ; corn fields near Hayle, Scilly Islands. 



♦ ♦Ligiisticum cornubi^nse. Near Bodmin. .Antirrhinum Or6ntium. Gubbal, Land's End 



♦ ♦ramarixgallica. St. Michael's Mount, Li- Brehar Island, Scilly. 



■^zard, Scilly Islands (possibly not truly a na- **Scrophularia Scorod5nia. St. Ives, Gulval, 



tive, but introduced). and Chyandour, plentifully ; within the ruins 



Drusera longifblia. Marsh between Penzance of the Abbey, Tresco Island, Scilly. 



and Marazion. *»Sibth6rpia europae^a. X Moist banks near 



OmitlK'igalum umbell^tum. Near Marazion. Penzance, common ; Gulval, Maddern "Well, 



♦♦Scillavema. St. Ives, near Zennor, Morvah, Trereife Road-Avenue, Helston, Scilly 



and many other parts of the county. Islands. 



f In a moist wheat field near Hayle I observed this plant growing to the 

 height of between 4 and 5 ft. 



J As a striking proof of the superior mildness of climate in Cornwall, 

 it may be mentioned that this little plant, a native of the county, is gene- 

 rally killed down to the ground during the winter in a Warwickshire 

 garden. 



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