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ON SOME NOKTH DEVON PLANTS. 

 By the Eev. W. Moyle Eogees, F.L.S. 



A STAY of about three weeks on the North Devon coast last 

 summer has enabled me to write the following notes, which are 

 supplemental to two papers on the same subject contributed by me 

 to this Journal in 1877 and 1879. No stations are given but those 

 in which I have actually seen the living plant. I am indebted to 

 Mr. H. A. Evans, the President of the United Services College 

 Natural History Society of Westward Ho, and to Mr. F. B. 

 Hinchliff, one of the members of that Society, for directing me to 

 Braunton Burrows stations for two or three plants which I had 

 not previously found in N. Devon. Such stations will be known 

 by the name in italics after them. The other references (in 

 parentheses) following some other stations are respectively abbre- 

 viations for the following works: — " Fl. Dev." for 'Flora 

 Devoniensis,' "Phyt." for 'The Phytologist,' "Keys Fl." for 

 Keys' ' Flora of Devon and Cornwall,' and " Piav. Fl." for Raven- 

 shaw's ' Flowering Plants and Ferns of Devonshire, Reissue with 

 Supplement.' By " new record " is meant a species not specially 

 recorded for North Devon in any of these pubhcations, in 

 ' Topographical Botany,' in the ' Reports of the Botanical Record 

 Club,' nor (so far as I have been able to ascertain) in this Journal. 

 If it should prove that any plant is improperly so described, I 

 shall be grateful to any one who will set me right in the matter. 



Pumunculus Baudotii, Godron, d. salsuginosus. — On mud at the 

 edge of one of the ponds in the recreation ground by Instow 

 Burrows. 



Papaver duhium, L., a. Lamottei. — Braunton Burrows at the 

 S.E. end, by potato field; several plants. 



Meconojms camhrica, Vig. — Valleys of East and West Lyn. (T. 

 Clark * m Phyt. N. S. iv. 742). No doubt native. 



Diplotaxis muralis, DC. — Maintains its casual or denizen 

 character at Instow as a weed in two or three gardens, and by the 

 roadside at the edge of the BmTOws. But the plants do not appear 

 to have increased in number since 1879. 



Lepidium Smitliii, Hook. — Near Ley Bay; Mortehoe ; Instow; 

 Umberleigh ; Zeal Monachorum. On rocky and dry banks ; often 

 only a plant or two together, but certainly native. 



Polygala depressa, Wender.— Valley of West Lyn; Exmoor 

 (by this is meant, throughout this paper, the border of the Moor on 

 the Lynton side) ; about Watersmeet. 



Saponaria officinalis, L. — On Braunton Burrows (Maw t in 

 Phyt. N. s. iv. 787), and Instow Burrows (Keys FL), in several 

 places and in great quantity ; by the Taw, near Umberleigh. A 

 denizen of course in all. 



* " Notes of a few days' visit to Lynmouth, Devonshire. By Thos. Clark." 

 t " Notes on the rarer plants occuiTing in the neighbourhood of the Estuary 

 of the Taw and Torridge, North Devon. December 14, 1852," 



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