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of Penzance, on the Cornish side, when on a visit to Plymouth in July 

 last. — T. E. Archer Briggs. 



Plymouth Plants. — I have recently found three very rare plants 

 in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. They are Valerianella eriocarpa, 

 Desv. , Carex punctata, (jdiVidi., and Anthoxantkum Fuelii^Lec. etLam. 

 The Valerianella I discovered, to the numher of some dozens of speci- 

 mens, growing for a few yards on a dry hedge-bank bounding a corn- 

 field a little way from the coast at Rame, East Cornwall, about five 

 miles from Plymouth in a direct line. Besides being on the hedge- 

 bank, it appeared very sparingly amongst the barley in the field 

 below. Unlike Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's Dorsetshire examples, these 

 Cornish ones had the fruit quite hispid, and moreover numerous 

 bristly hairs on the stems and midribs of the leaves. Carex punctata 

 I met with, though rather sparingly, on some low rocks under a cliff 

 by the shore of Bigbury Bay, and in the parish of Holbeton, S. Devon, 

 about eight or nine miles from Plymouth, in a south-eastwardly 

 direction. Here it grows in spots which from their close proximity to 

 the sea must, I should think, be not unfrequently dashed with spray 

 from the waves. Still it is for the most part intermixed with other 

 coarse grassy vegetation ; and another much commoner sedge, C. 

 extensa, grows rather in advance of it on the same shore. AntJioxan- 

 thum Puelii I found in three oat-fields on the sea-bank above the 

 Bay, near Lambside, South Devon. Two of the fields are contiguous 

 ones, and the third is close by, and all the three seemed, when I met 

 with the grass, to have been what our Devonshire farmers call 

 *'seeded-out," that is, sown with a second crop to be cut for hay next 

 summer, so it is not at all unlikely that it was unintentionally in- 

 troduced with the clovers and fodder-grasses. Still it appeared with 

 several of our common cornfield weeds, and in cousiderable quanlity ; 

 consequently I consider its position as regards citizenship doubtful. — 

 T. R. Archer Beiggs. 



Kaias flexilis, Rostk., as a Scotch plant. — On the 14th of August 

 last I received for determination, from Messrs. Robb & Sturrock, 

 specimens of Naias Jlexilis which they had collected on the previous 

 day in the Loch of Clunie, near Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and where 

 they report the plant to be plentiful. The specimens were in good 

 fruit, and luxuriant in growth. The loch is under 200 feet above the 

 level of the sea, and is about two and a half miles in circumference. 

 This discovery is interesting in a geographical point of view, as the 

 plant, in Britain, has hitherto only been found in Ireland, where it 

 was first detected by Professor Oliver in 1850, in a lake near Round- 

 stone, Connemara. There are other lochs in Scotland in which Naias 

 ought to be looked for, such as Rescobie Loch, Forfarshire. I enclose 

 a specimen of the plant from Clunie. — John Sadler. 



