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110. S. ciliata, Fries. Fries's small-flowered Pearlwort. 



Native ; in sandy or dry waste spots, on turfy banks and walls ; 

 most plentiful near the coast. Common, though somewhat 

 locally so. May to September, 

 c. I. Port Wrinkle. St. Germans Beacon. Waste above the railway 

 near Cutmere Bridge. Below Screasdon Fort. Trevollard. 

 About Markwell. Pillaton. 

 II. Above Whitsand Bay, and between Rame Head and Penlee 

 Point. Maker, with Lotus angustissimus. Near Saltash and 

 Botus Fleming. IMerrifield. Calloget Green. 

 D. III. Western side of Weston JNIills Lake. Saltash Passage. Rocky 

 bank near Burrington Farm, Pennycross. King's Tamerton. 

 In several spots by the field-path from Blaxton towards 

 Horrabridge. 

 IV. Between Mount Batten and Jenny Cliff. Between Bovisand and 

 Wembury. On slaty refuse at Rumple and Cann in the Plym 

 Valley, with *S'. apetala and *S^. suhulata. Near Thornbury. 

 About Fancy. Waste spot near Collard. Between Chaddle- 

 wood and Combgate. 

 V. Wembury, above the Yealm estuary. Revelstoke, and between 

 that and Carsewell. Lambside. Near Bridgend, on a bank by 

 the road to Puslmch. 

 VI. Carsewell, and elsewhere near the Anchorist Rock. 

 When growing near or on the coast, often intermixed with some of the 

 smaller trefoils and Trigonella. It ascends to 450 feet on St. Germans 

 Beacon. 



First record : Briggs, 1865 ; in Jour. Bot. iii. 349 ; also first for Devon 

 and Cornwall. 



111. S. procumbens, L. Procumbent Pearhcort. 



Native ; about footpaths, on walls, by woodland paths, and on 



moors and commons. Very common. April to October. Area 



general. 



Plentiful on walls in Plymouth, and to be seen about the pavement of 



the footways in some of the less-frequented streets. It also occm-s in a 



variety of situations over the enclosed comitry and on the open Dartmoor 



commons. 



Mr. Keys says, " A fleshy maritime form is S. maritima, Gren. It 

 occurs between Torpoint and St. Johns." The specimens in Herh. Ply. 

 Inst, seem true maritima, Don. 



112. S. subulata, Wimm. Aid-shaped Spurrey. 



Native ; on moors, commons, and m dry or sandy waste spots. 

 Rather, though locally, common. May to September. 



