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and Yealm Bridge, wliich latter place is distant about seven miles 

 from the town. In the district indicated it occurs plentifully on 

 many hedgebanks and in bushy places, associated with IJyperlcum 

 montamim. Origanum viilgare, Rubus casius, etc., together with its 

 ally, Viola hirta, between which and it there is in some spots an in- 

 termediate plant, described by Messrs. Baker and Foggitt as the Viola 

 permixta of Jordan in the Report of the Thirsk Botanical Club for 

 1865. Elsewhere about Plymouth V. oclorala, with both white and 

 purple flowers, may be seen in many scattered localities, but, perhaps, 

 only where it has either escaped from cultivation or been introduced. 

 With regard to the distribution of V. lactea, Dr. Hooker says (p. 45), 

 " Heaths, E. England." S.W. might certainly have been added, as 

 downs about Plymouth, situated in S.W. Devon and S.E. Cornwall 

 yield the plant, together with V.Jlavicoriiis, Sm., and one or two other 

 forms of V. caniita, L., proper. — T. R. Archer Briggs. 



Carex DisTANs, L. — In the 'Students' Flora' (p. 418) a query 

 is inserted after the words " absent in Devon," followed by " and 

 Cornwall." I reply, — the plant is both a Devonian and Cornubian 

 species, as I have seen it at Long Bridge, on the right bank of the 

 Plym, opposite to where Tory Brook falls into that river, a little above 

 the Laira estuary ; also in a marsh at Blaxton by the Tavy, which is 

 there a tidal river ; and on the coast east of Plymouth, between Bovi- 

 sand and Wembury; these stations are in Devon. In Cornwall I 

 have noticed it at more than one spot on the coast by Whitsaud Bay, 

 near Plymouth. — T. K. Archer Briggs. 



Additions to the Flora of the Scilly Isles. — During a 

 visit to this group in 1869, I noticed the following species, which are 

 not included in Mr. Townsend's list published in this Journal, Vol. II. 

 (1864), pp. 106-120 :— 



Fumaria ofRcinalis, St. Agnes. 

 Sinapis alba, St. Agnes. 

 Lepidium Smithii. 

 Draba vcrna, St. Mary's. 

 Reseda Luteola, St. Mary's. 

 Silene inflata, St. Agnes. 

 Medicago sativa, Tresco. 

 Trifolium fragiferum, Tresco. 

 Sj)ir*a Uliiiaria. 

 Sium angustilbliuin, Si. Mary's. 



Tanacetum vulgare, Tresco. 

 Sonclius ai'vensis, Tresco. 

 Erythrffia Centaurium, Tresco. 

 Solanum nigrum, St. Agnes. 

 Lin aria Cj'mbalai'ia, Tresco. 

 Lin aria vulgaris, Tresco. 

 Galeopsis Ladanum, Tresco. 

 Polygonum Pcrsicaria, St. Mary\ 

 P. Hydropiper, St. Mary^s. 

 Juucus supinus, Tresco. 



