SOUTH-EAST DEVON PLANTS. 17 



Bianthtis Armeria, Linn. The only species, I believe, for 

 which Trusham is named in ' Flora Devoniensis.' Eather 

 frequent in stony bushy ground in Teign Lane and elsewhere in 

 the parish. It lacks personal authority for South Devon in 

 ' Topogr. Bot.' 



Stellaria aquatica, Scop. Trusham. Only two or three plants 

 along one of the little streams flowing into the Teign. 



Sagina subulata, Wimm. On Haldon Hill and on Bovey 

 Heathfield. On the south-east Devon coast only at Dawlish 

 Warren, and (in but one spot, though in good quantity there) on 

 Peak Hill, near Sidmouth. 



Hypericum linariifolium, Vahl. On rocks in Trusham and 

 Christowe. The Trusham Station is not more than a quarter of 

 a mile from the Teign. It is of very limited extent, but had 

 probably as many as thirty plants of this rare St. John's wort in 

 flower from the middle of June until the beginning of October. 

 At the Christowe Station — a rocky '' Cleave" on the opposite side 

 of the river, and more than a mile from its bank — there were 

 hundreds of most luxuriant plants in July. There is no previous 

 record, so far as I can learn, of either of these stations. The one 

 given on the Teign in Mr. Eavenshaw's ' List' (" near Dunsford 

 Bridge") is several miles further up the river. It apjpears to me 

 particularly well figured in Bentham's ' Illustrated Hand-book of 

 the British Flora;' and the opening words of his description — 

 " Intermediate in some measure between the trailing H. and the 

 commo7i H." — give a good idea of its appearance when flowering. 

 But " seldom above eight or ten inches high" does not apply to 

 the Christowe plants, which run up freely to eighteen inches or 

 more ; though it is true of those which grow on the more exjDosed 

 rock at Trusham. In both stations, the leaves at first are only 

 very slightly (if at aU) revolute ; they have the midrib very pro- 

 minent beneath, are somewhat glaucous in hue, and remarkably 

 blunt, narrowing only slightly from base to point. The stems 

 appear to be uniformly ascending — never erect as in H. 2)erforatum, 

 Linn., nor prostrate as in H. humifusum, Linn., and (I should be 

 disposed to add) obscurely two-edged, though authorities seem 

 agreed in calling them terete. There is a rigid look about the 

 whole plant, and a regularity of outline in the leaves and in the 

 especially bright j^ellow petals, which mark the species off at first 

 sight from all other British ones. The peculiar resinous smell so 

 characteristic of the Tutsan is very strong in this species. 



Hypericum hirsutum, Linn. Nowhere in the district, except 

 near Chudleigh ; there it is frequent. 



Geranium pusillum, Linn. One of the commonest species at 

 Trusham, in all the barer fields and stony waste places ; also in 

 the parishes of Ashton and Doddiscombe Leigh (next beyond to 

 the north-wes-t), and on the Chudleigh Eocks. 



Geranium lucidum, Linn. The extreme abundance of this is 

 quite another feature in the flora of the district, and one that can 

 hardly fail to catch the eye of even non-botanical observers. 



