38 VIOLACEiE. 



Brixton and Plynipton. About Yealmpton and Yealm Bridge ; 

 and between the latter place and Westlake. Fordbrook. 

 VI. Between Battisborough Cross and Mothecombe. Hedge-bank 

 betAveen Gutsford Bridge and Orcherton. The type, violacea, 

 on a bank near a house at Modbury. 

 Clearly a Native in Districts iv. and v., mostly on and around the 

 limestone beds ; probably also in iii. ; questionably in vi. ; and only an 

 Alien or Denizen in the two Cornwall Districts, i. and ii. Alba is much 

 more frequent than violacea. 



77. V. permixta, Jord. 



Native ; on dry banks and in waste spots. Rare and very local. 

 March, April, 

 c. II. A very large patch on a bank between Penters Cross and Wheat- 

 ■ lands. This seems ^^^rmiMa, but was out of flower Avhen I 

 found it in 1879, consequently some shght doubt attaches to 

 the name. 

 D. III. On a bank at Blaxton near V. odorata var. violacea and V. 

 hirta; in considerable quantity on a hedge-bank by the lane 

 leading thence into the Roborough and Tamerton Road ; 

 growing near V. odorata var. alba. 

 IV. Sparingly in the lane bounding Saltram grounds, between the 

 Underwood Lodge and the Stag Gate, and more plentifully by 

 the road thence to Elburton, also by the cross lane by Hay 

 Farmhouse mto the Plymouth and Yealmpton Road ; in small 

 quantity by this latter road near the third milestone from Ply- 

 mouth ; as also between both Billacombe and Elburton and 

 Plympton. In plenty on a hedge-bank by the lane to Elburton 

 from the Plympton and Brixton Road. 

 V. In two or three spots on a hedge-bank near Harestone, and by 

 the Plympton and Brixton Road near that place. 

 This curious plant has been identified by M. Jordan himself with his 

 permixta {Bot. Ex. Club Rep., Thirsk, 1865, 5), but does not entirely 

 agree with Boreau's description in Floi'e du Centre de la France, ii. 74, 

 ed. 3, as it is there described as having stolons " non radicants," and in 

 Plymouth examples roots are often developed, though to a less extent 

 than by V. odorata. From specimens that I forwarded to ]\Ir. Baker, he, 

 in 1865, drew up the description contamed in the Report of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club referred to above. 



The distribution of this plant in the neighbourhood of Plymouth some- 

 what favours the view of its being a hybrid between V. odoraia and V. 

 hirta. Its scentless flowers are of a bright slaty blue, and make a fine 

 show at the end of IVIarch and early in April. 

 First record : Baker, in Bep. Bot. Ex. Club, Thirsk, 1864. 



