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II. Near Cawsand ; near Saltash ; Keys, Fl. ii. 63. Antony. Between 

 Harrowbarrow and Calstock. 

 c. III. Ford Lane, Stoke Damerel. Woodlands. Beer Ferrers. Ro- 

 borongh Down. Buckland Monachorum. Walkhampton. 

 IV. Bickleigh ; Keys, ibid. Efford Lane. Between Bovisand and 

 Wembury Point. Shaugh. Hoo Meavy. 

 V. Revelstoke. Between Battisborough and Lolesbury. Elburton. 

 Sparkwell. Cornwood. 

 VI. Carsewell. Kingston. On Dartmoor, above Harford Bridge. 

 The earliest species to flower, and one of the most generally diffused, 

 notwithstanding the partiality that it shows for arenaceous soils. 



128. H. linariifolium, ViU. Linaria-Ieaved St. John's Wort. 



Native ; on chy banks. Very rare and local. Jmie, Jidy. 

 D. III. Road to Maristow from Tamerton ! Gould, and Harper., S. D. 

 Lit. Chron., 13L Found on July 16th, 1845. It occurs, but 

 very sparmgly, on two dry hedge-banks, at an elevation of 

 rather over 280 feet. I noticed nine roots in 1871, and about 

 half-a-dozen in 1875. Plentifully about the Morwell Rocks, 

 River Tamar; Goidd.; Phijt. iii. 643, 1849. 

 Fii'st record : Goidding and Harj^er, 1846 ; also for Britain, excluding 

 the Channel Islands. 



129. H. pulchrum, L. Small XJprirjTit St. John's Wort. 



Native ; on heaths, in open spots about woods and copses, and 



on hedge-banks. Very common. June to August. Area 



general. 



Occurs not only on hedge-banks in the immediate neighbourhood of 



Plymouth, as near Lipson, between Mutley and Burleigh, &c., and thence 



over the enclosed country, but also on the open commons and in the 



wooded tracts ; gi'owing on limestone, slate, and granite. Begins to 



flower a little later than H. humifusum. 



130. H. hirsutum, L. Hairy St. John's Wort. 



Native ; m wooded spots on limestone. Very rare and extremely 

 local. July. 

 D. V. On a wooded bank by the Yealm, near Kitley Cavern, and also 

 in the wood between the cottage and Puslinch Lane, sparmgly 

 in both places. 

 First record : Briggs, 1868, in Jour. Bot. vi. 205. 



131. H. montanum, L. Mountain St. John's Wort. 



Native ; in bushy places, waste open spots, and on banks, mostly 

 on limestone. Rare and remarkably local. July, August. 



