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The only native species in the county, so far as I can judge. L. 

 campestre, Brown, though perhaps as widely distributed, and occa- 

 sionally rather abundant in cultivated fields, bears the look of a 

 colonist wherever 'I have seen it. 



Senehiera didyma, Pers. — Near Bovey Tracey ; Hennock ; 

 Chudleigh streets. 



Viola paliistris, L. — Frequent by the river from Chagford to 

 Trusham; by the Bovey near North Bovey (Fl. Dev.). Also in 

 marshy places at Moreton, Nitton Cleave, and Ashton. 



V. odorata, L. — Near Moreton; Bridford, Brings; Chudleigh 

 (Fl. Dev.) ; Trusham. Eather frequent in the two last-mentioned 

 parishes, and probably far more so elsewhere than this meagre 

 list of stations would indicate. Usually with white flowers. 



F. liirta, L. — Near Dunsford, Brit/f/s ; Nitton Cleave. Eather 

 common in the parishes of Ashton, Trusham, and Chudleigh, and 

 I expect more general in the district than V. odorata. 



v. canina, Auct. — Haldon, in small quantity, May, 1881. Not 

 yet certainly observed elsewhere. 



F. lactea, Sm. — Piddleton Down and Fingle Bridge, Brir/gs ; 

 Christow and Canonteign Downs and Nitton Cleave ; western slope 

 of Haldon ; but most abundant on Bovey Heathfield (Fl. Dev.) 

 and Knighton Heath. 



F. Curtisii, Forster. — The late Mr. H. C. Watson confirmed 

 this name for two plants that I sent him in 1880 from a rocky 

 pasture near Manaton, where they looked native, growing as they 

 did on a remote hillside with Sediim anglicum, and similar plants. 

 But I must add I searched the immediate neighbourhood for nearly 

 half an hour without finding a third specimen ; and I have not 

 been able to visit the place since. Is this species ever found truly 

 native in such a situation — several hundred feet above the sea, 

 and some twelve miles or so from the coast ? 



Drosera intermedia, Hayne. — Seen only on Bovey Heathfield 

 (Fl. Dev.) and Knighton Heath. 



Polygala vulgaris, L. — The segregate; Ashton; Trusham, in 

 two places; Chudleigh, in two or three places; and at "The 

 Eocks." Not nearly so general as P. depressa, Wender., the 

 common milkwort of heath and down. P. oxyptera, Eeich. (which 

 I understand but imperfectly), I have on record only for one place, 

 near Nitton Cleave. 



Dianthus Armeria, L. — Trusham (Fl. Dev.), in several places, 

 common; Kingsteignton (Fl. Dev.); Teigngrace, perhaps the 

 station referred to in Fl. Dev. as "in the road between Ashburton 

 and Newton, near the latter place." 



Saponaria officinalis, L. — Hennock; Trusham; Teigngrace. 

 Always, I believe, as a denizen. 



Silene anglica, L. — Chagford; North Bovey (Fl. Dev.) ; Moreton ; 

 in large stony enclosures on Christow and Canonteign Downs, in 

 immense quantity ; Ashton ; Teigngrace (Keys' Fl.) ; Newton 

 Abbot. A colonist, widely distributed and sometimes abundant, 

 but certainly local. 



