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not consider it native, although long naturalized. We then went to 

 Mousehole, and on the way called upon Mr. Curnow (a gardener), 

 who took us to one of the stations of Iris tuberosa (not now in flower), 

 upon a hedge bank above his house. Naturalized (?) At Mousehole 

 visited a cave in the sea-cliffs beautifully hung with ferns. By it I 

 gathered Lotus major fi glaber, Polygala oxyptera. Between this place 

 ■and Penzance the road is carried close to the edge of the cliffs, 

 and commands fine views of Mount's Bay, the Lizard, etc., and 

 produces plenty of Scrophularia Scorodonia on its banks. We then 

 went along the bay (in a carriage) through the poor little town of 

 Marazion, and nearly as far as St. Breage, when we turned down 

 towards the sea, to a mine named Trewavas, and gathered Lotus 

 Mspidtis on the rocky slopes to the west near the Bishop's Rock, and 

 Illecebrum verticillatiim in a damp place a little further in that direc- 

 tion. Returned home at 10.30 p.m. 



July 16. Went to the Logan stone, to which I ascended, and 

 moved it. The rocks near, called Trereen Castle, are most grand. 

 Mr. Borrer and I walked from the Logan by St. Levan, where we 

 found Lotus hispidus, to Tol Peden Penwith, a fine promontory, with 

 a, hole like the Sarnian Creux by it. Then to the Land's End, and 

 White Sand Bay, and home. 



July 17. We went to Penzance, and thence to examine the 

 sands near the Hayle river. First visited some sands near Lelant, 

 and then spent some time upon the Phillack Sands, finding nothing 

 of interest upon either. The latter forms a splendid range of sandhills. 



Jidy 18. Mr. Comyn drove me to Penzance, and I went and 

 gathered Cynodon Dadylon on the sands of the bay, at a place where 

 Ludgvan Church comes into a line with a farmhouse near some 

 trees. It was not in flower. Acer Fseudo-platamis appears to be a 

 native in Cornwall; it occurs everywhere, even by the side of 

 mountain streams. Mr. H. Penneck dined with us. 



July 19. Again very wet and stormy. In the afternoon Borrer, 

 W. Comyn, and I walked to St. Just and Cape Cornwall, and found 

 Hypericum linariifolium on a steep slope above the sea (between two 

 prominent masses of rock), on the south side of the promontory 

 before reaching the lower part which connects the conical headland 

 with the rest. Cape Cornwall is a very fine Head, well deserving 

 a visit. 



July 20. Went to Zennor, a very small place upon the coast. 

 On the way ascended Mulfra Hill, and saw an overthrown cromlech, 

 consisting of three uprights and one very large slab^ which had lain 

 upon them, of eleven feet by nine and one thick. Between Zennor 

 and St. Ives we ascended Eosehall Hill, to enjoy the view. At 

 St. Ives (a small and poor place) Mr. Penneck met us, and took us 

 to a small cave in the second cove towards Hayle, and pointed out 

 a profusion of Adiantum Capillus-Veneris. 



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