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to elevated spots, as at Beer Alston. Bank by the Plymouth 



and Tavistock road, between Powisland and the George Hotel, 



rather sparingly, 1874. 



IV. About Plimouth John. Ger. 271 (quoting Lobel). Wall, North 



. Street, Plymouth ; Tothill Lane, and elsewhere in, or about, 



the town. Abundant about the Plym estuary, ascending to 



Staddiscombe. "Wall in the town of Plympton Maurice and 



near the railway station. Sparingly on a wall on the north 



side of Ymstone Nursery grounds. At the head of Manadon 



Hill. 



V. Newton Ferrers. Knighton and Langdon. On slaty refuse above 



Coffleet Lake. 

 VI. On the coast' by Bigbury Bay, below Kingston. By the tidal 

 Erme near Efibrd, &c. 

 A sub-maritime rather than a maritime or littoral species. 

 The petals are commonly wliite, but sometimes more or less purple- 

 tinted, especially in starved examples. Before Midsummer the plant is 

 often quite withered, and a month later yomig ones may be seen springing 

 up thickly around its dead stems. These attain considerable size before 

 winter, begin to flower in the early spring, and by April have such a 

 number of blossoms expanded as to whiten some of the old hedge-banks 

 and walls around Plymouth. 



First record : Johnson, 1633. 



61. C. anglica, Z. Long-leaved Scurvy-Grass. 



Native ; in salt-marshes and muddy spots by tidal waters. Lo- 

 cally common. April to June, 

 c. I. By Forder Lake below Trematon Castle. By Sconner Lake near 

 Polsco. By the Notter near Trevollard. Tideford. 

 II. By the Tamar at Halton. 

 D. III. Near Maristow ! ; Jacob, Fl. part ii. Keyham, near Devonport, 

 at the head of the creek; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron., 169, and 

 Fl. ii. 41. Western side of Weston Mill Lake. Kmterbury 

 Creek. Budshead. Tamerton Foliot. Blaxton. Near Holes 

 Hole. 

 There is no record of this from Districts iv. v. and vi. The flowers 

 emit a sweet, honey-like scent. 



Certain specimens, collected at Maristow and elsewhere m the neigh- 

 bourhood, present characters more or less intermediate between this and 

 C. officinalis. I sent a series to the Bot. Ex. Club in 1875, with some 

 remarks, which may be found in the Club Report for that year, folloAved 

 by a long and interesting critical note from Dr. Boswell, in which he says : 

 " There can be no question that Mr. Briggs's specimens comiect C. 

 anglica Avith C. officinalis, so much so that in several instances, looking 



