56 ILLECEBRACEiE. 



V. Wembury. Newton Ferrers. Revelstoke. Near Winstone, 



Brixton. 

 VI. By Bigbiiry Bay, below Kingston, where also occurs var. glah- 

 rescens. 

 The variety I have ventured to regard as var. glabrescens, Lebel, is an 

 almost glabrous form, having the glandular hairs so reduced as to make 

 the plant seem quite glabrous at first sight, but careful exammation will 

 reveal short glandular hairs on the inflorescence. Brebisson in Floi-e de 

 laNojinaiidie says of glabrescens, "Cette forme a peu pres glabre, excepte 

 sur I'mflorescence, est signalee a Gatteville (Manche) comme tres rare 

 par M. le Dr. Lebel." (p. 57, ed. 4.) 



First record : Briggs, 1865, in Jour. Bot. iii. 



POLYCARPON, L. 



118. P. tetraphyllum, L. Four-leaved All-seed. 



Native ; in dry and rocky spots and on a wall. Very rare. April 



to October, but not continuously. 

 c. 1. [About Periwinkle (? Port Wrmkle), Mr. Dingle ; Banks, Fl. 



part 7. ] 

 D. III. Abundant in a dry waste spot under a wall at King's Tamerton, 



1866; Jour. Bot. iv. 289. Also on the wall, April, 1869. 



Young plants springing up abundantly around some old ones, 



September, 1874. Only about half-a-dozen plants at the old 



station, but a few in a new spot a gun-shot or two from it, 1879. 

 V. Newton Ferrers, sparingly in two spots in the village, immediately 



in front of the houses parallel ^v\t\\ the creek, June, 1873 ; 



seen in one spot, 1875 ; still in front of one or two of the 



houses, and also under a wall, but sparingly m both places, 



July, 1878. 

 The little bank at King's Tamerton on which I discovered it growing 

 in plenty in 1866, is now well-nigh covered with ranker vegetation, which 

 seems to have nearly crowded out the small Polycarpon. From the pecu- 

 liar situation it has chosen at Newton it has little in the way of vegetation 

 to compete with there. I have searched hi vain for it at Port "Wrinkle ; 

 but the place is one suitable for it. At King's Tamerton it ascends to 

 270 feet. 



ILLECEBRACE^. 



SCLERANTHTTS, L. 



119. S. annuus, Z. Annual Knawell. 



Native ; in sandy or dry waste places, and as a Aveed in poor 

 arable land. Kare. May to September. 



