18 SOUTH-EAST DEVON PLANTS. 



Covering wall and liedgebank, and occupying every favourable spot 

 in the woods. 



Geranium Eobertianiun, Linn., var. b. modestum. Well-marked 

 specimens of this variety from the immediate neighbourhood of 

 the Christowe Hypericum liuariifolium. There were plants of 

 typical G. Robertianum growing close by, and I could see nothing 

 in the respective situations of the two forms to account for 

 the variation. Is there any other distinctly inland station on 

 record for it ? Here it cannot be less than ten miles from the sea 

 coast. 



Oxalis corniculata, Linn. I cannot but regard this as truly 

 indigenous at Trusham. Elsewhere in South Devon, as also in 

 West Cornwall and Dorset, it has always seemed to me a mere 

 garden "escape." But in Trusham it not only occurs in con- 

 siderable quantity in three of the lanes, but I also find it on a 

 bare furzy down, where it certainly looks quite as much a 

 " native" as the Ptumex Acetosella, Sediim aiujlicum, and Geranium 

 pusillum, which grow beside it. This plant finds no place in 

 * Topogr. Bot.' 



Trifolium suhterraneum, Linn. Kemarkably abundant in 

 South-east Devon generally, and in Trusham and its neighbour- 

 hood especially. In Trusham the turf, wherever undisturbed, 

 is as a rule full of it, almost to the exclusion of the commoner 

 species — T. pratense, Linn., and T. repens, Linn. In some of the 

 more stony fallows, however, and on the open downs, T. fiUformey 

 Linn., and T. glomeratimi, Linn., dispute the ground with it. 

 T. striatum, Linn., T. arvense, Linn., and T. p)^'ocumhens, Linn., 

 are also frequent ; T. minus, Eelhan, is to be met with every- 

 where in lane, and wood, and field border ; while in one or two bare 

 rocky spots at Trusliam, and at the Chudleigh Eocks, T. suffo- 

 catum, Linn., is in as great quantity as almost any other species. 

 T. scabrum, Linn., I have found nowhere in the district but at the 

 last-named station ; there, too, it is abundant with most of those 

 named above. 2\ lnjbridam, Linn., is rapidly spreading through 

 the district. T. medium, Linn., I have as yet observed only in 

 Ashton parish, near the Teign. 



Lotus tenuis, Kit. Inland in South Devon, only near Oak- 

 lands, in Chudleigh parish, where it seems thoroughly establislied, 

 but I suspect only as an escape from cultivation. At Exmouth, 

 and near Woodbury Eoad Station (between Exmouth and Exeter) 

 it grows freely along the border of salt marshes. Does this 

 betray a special liking on its part for the seaside ? or has the 

 proximity of a railway station in each instance anything to do 

 with it ? The extremest form of this plant that I remember to 

 have seen was in a somewhat similar situation, viz., between the 

 railroad and the backwater at Weymouth, from the very rails to 

 the water's edge. 



Lotus aufiustissimus, Linn. Very common in Trusham, Ashton, 

 and Hennock parishes, in company with some of the rarer trefoils 

 named above ; especially on open downs and in rocky bushy 

 places and borders of stony fields. In some of these stations it 



