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ON SOME NOETH DEVON PLANTS. 

 By Eev. W. Moyle Kogers. 



The plants mentioned in these notes were seen by me this year, 

 either during a two days' stay, in the end of July, at Zeal 

 Monachorum, on the Elver Yeo, near Morchard Eoad Station, 

 between Crediton and Chulmleigh, or two or three weeks later by 

 that part of the coast of Barnstaple Bay which lies near Instow, at 

 the junction of the estuaries of the rivers Taw and Torridge. By 

 " new record '' is here meant a species or variety not recorded for 

 N. Devon in ' Topographical Botany' or the Eeports of the Botanical 

 Locality Eccord Club, nor having N. Devon stations given for it in 

 either ' Flora Devoniensis ' or Mr. Eavenshaw's ' List of the 

 flowering plants and ferns growing wild m the county of Devon ' 

 (the * Ecissue, with Supx:)lement,' published in 1872). 



llanuuculus Baudotii, Godron ; the type or var. confusiis (new 

 record). — By Instow Biutows, in a slightly brackish jpool, near 

 high- water mark, on the left side of the Taw Estuary ; in con- 

 siderable quantity. 



E. hirsutiis, Curtis (new record). — Zeal Monachorum, in a corn- 

 field ; abundant. Perhaps not indigenous. In another more stony 

 cornfield between Zeal and Down St. Mary I saw a good many plants 

 of R. parvijloriis, L. 



Diplotaxis maralis, DC. — Near Instow. Eoadside in front of 

 gardens ; abundant, and becoming established on the edge of the 

 Burrows. So at Ilfracombe, m 1877, I found a few plants on the 

 chffs, but only in one ^Dlace, about thu-ty yards from a house in the 

 garden of which it was the most conspicuous gravel- walk weed. I 

 believe not otherwise recorded for N. Devon. 



Coclilearia mu/lica, L. — Fremington and near Barnstaple, on both 

 sides of the Taw Estuary. 



Senebiem didynia, Pers. — Zeal Monachorum. A weed as abun- 

 dant in the streets of this village in the heart of the county as 

 about seaside towns. So, in S. Devon, I have seen it in Chudleigh 

 and near Bovey Tracy. 



Viola Curtisii, Forster. — Northam Burrows andListow Bun'ows; 

 on grass-covered sandhills. Widespread in the former station, and 

 in considerable quantity in both, though not nearly so abundant as 

 at the northern end of Braunton Burrows, four or five miles distant. 

 Mr. T. E. Archer Briggs tells me that it has also been found this 

 year by his brother on Woollacombe Sands, between Braunton 

 Burrows and Ilfracombe. 



Sn</ina nodosa, Meyer. — Northam Burrows and Instow Burrows ; 

 also on the sea-wall at Instow, and in a meadow about half a mile 

 from Instow towards Bideford. 



Speiyularia neylccta, Syme, E. B. — The type. Instow; on and 

 by the sea-wall, &c. The variety media occurs on Instow Burrows 

 and near Barnstaple. 



N. indnjiiiata, Syme, E. B. (new record). — Northam Burrows, in 

 moist sandy liollows ; very stunted, with long stout woody root- 



