54 CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



0. I. St. Germans Beacon. Viverdon Down. 



II. In old pasture land and in the Military Road above Whitsand 



Bay. Waste piece of ground by the road to St. Dominick 



above Vernico Down. 

 D. III. Roborough Down ! ; Fl. Dev. 79. 



IV. Near Shaugh Bridge ! ; Keys, Fl. ii. 55. On slaty refuse about 



Rumple and Cann Quarries, and on a sandy bank by the river 

 a little above Plymbridge, in the Plym Valley, also by the 

 Dartmoor tramway between Rock and Fancy, in the same 

 neighbourhood. Bickleigh Down. Near Cadover Bridge and 

 elsewhere on Dartmoor. 

 V. Above the Yealm estuary at Wembury. Crownhill Down. 

 Hanger Down. 



First record : Jmies and Kingston, 1829. 



S. nodosa, Meyer. Near Ivybridge, Banker ; Keys, Fl. Error. The 

 specimen so labelled by JNIr. Banker was one of Spergula arvensis. 



SPERGUIA, L. 



113. S. arvensis, L. Corn Spurrey. 



Native ; m sandy spots on commons and by roadsides, and as a 

 weed in peaty or sandy arable land. Very common. May to 

 October. Area general. 

 Occurs just above the coast at Whitsand Bay, and on Dartmoor. 



SPERGULARIA, Pers. 



114. S. rubra, Frenzl. Field Sandwort-Spurrey. 



Native ; m sandy or gravelly spots on commons and by roadsides. 

 Rather common. May to October, 

 c. I. By the road close to St. Germans Beacon, together with a remark- 

 able glandular-hairy variety. Trevollard. Waste spot near 

 Notter farmhouse. Landrake. Pillaton. 

 II. Maker. On a bank near Carkeel, by the road to Botus Fleming. 

 Gunnislake. 

 D. III. King's Tamerton. Near Powisland, by the Plymouth and Tavi- 

 stock Road. Roborough Down. 

 IV. Near Oreston quarries. Rumple, Plym Valley. Ringmoor Down. 



V. Above the coast near Lambside. Revelstoke. 

 VI. Above Bigbury Bay near Kingston. 



I have only given the stations where I have seen this myself, as I sus- 

 pect some of thoss on record may really belong to neglecta. 



115. S. neglecta, Symc, E. B. Lesser Sea Sandwort- Spurrey. 



Native ; on mud and in marshes by salt or brackish water. Very 

 common. May to September. 



