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small, their number and compactness, lovely colour, delicate 

 fragrance, and the contrast with the golden silky bud-scales, make 

 this one of the prettiest and most interesting species I have seen. 

 The plant would be a great acquisition to European gardens. 



I avail myself of the opportunity to give a description of the 

 fruit of R. Heiinji, which was unknown when my original diagnosis 

 was drawn up : — 



Capsulis fusiformibus eximie crebreque exasperatis If poll, 

 longis fenestratim 6-valvibus valvis scilicet medio tantum dehi- 

 scentibus utrinque dui connexis demum basi solutis stylo rigido lis 

 tequilongo coronatis. 



NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTH-EAST 

 CORNWALL. 



By T. R. Archer Briggs, F.L.S. 



In vol. xviii. of the ' Journal of Botany ' (1880) will be found 

 (pp. 295-99) "certain unrecorded stations for some plants near 

 Bodmin, East Cornwall," noted by me whilst spending a few days 

 at Lavethan, in the parish of Blisland. A second visit to the 

 same beautiful residence has enabled me to get together the 

 following notes respecting the botanical productions of a portion 

 of the country lying between the town of Bodmin and the north 

 coast of Cornwall, at Port Isaac Bay. This tract forms part of the 

 basin of the Camel or Allan River, which stream flow^s into the 

 Bristol Channel by the town of Padstow. It lies on slates of the 

 Devonian or Old Red Sandstone Group, dotted with trappean 

 masses and intersected by elvan veins in certain spots. It forms 

 a portion of Vice-County 2 (E. Cornwall) of Watson's 'Topo- 

 graphical Botany,' but were a further division of the county into 

 north and south to be made would come under that of N.E. 

 Cornwall. Its proximity to the Bristol Channel, and the fact that 

 a large body of salt water flows for several miles up the wide 

 estuary of the Camel River, would lead us to expect a flora with 

 maritime charateristics, and this I find to be one of its features. 

 The list that follow^s can only be regarded as a contribution towards 

 a record of some of the more remarkable of its species. 



Clematis Vitalba, L. — Egloshayle ; in great profusion in a low- 

 lying hedge by a lane near the village, and occurring elsewhere in 

 the neighbourhood. I think it indigenous. In Devon and Corn- 

 wall, in other than a limestone soil, this is often very local, being 

 generally confined to warm sheltered spots, and showing a ^jartiality 

 for places near tidal waters. 



Anemone nemorusa, L. — Camel Valley, between Tresarret and 

 Helland Bridges. 



Ranunculus hirsutu.s, Curt. — On the marshy "flat" at Amble, 

 and elsewdiere in that neighbourhood ; roadside at Hendra, between 

 the villages of St. Mabyn and St. Kew ; damp spot by the road- 



