62 HYPERICACEiE. 



c. I. Three weak plants on a bank below a wood at Antony, very near 

 the Ferry House, one with flowers, July, 1873. 



D. IV. Abundant on Uraestone by the Yealmpton Road, within a few 

 miles of Plymouth ; Plyrastock ; Phyt. v. N. S. 369. Catte- 

 down Quarries ! ; Mount Batten ! ; Hore ; Keys, Fl. ii. 64. 

 It is general over the limestone tract that extends from the 

 eastern shore of the Plym estuary to Elburton. On a slaty 

 cutting by the roadside near the Goosewell Alms Houses, be- 

 "tween Plymstock and Staddiscbmbe. Herd wick. A single 

 plant on a bank below the Tavistock Railway, near Shaugh 

 Bridge, Avith Crepis bieiinis, and an introduction there, June, 

 1868. 

 V. Fordbrook, Brixton, in plenty by the road to Staddiscombe. 

 Yealmpton, near the village. 

 VI. Saltercress, Kingston, on hedge-banks by the lane leading down 

 to the mouth of the Erme ; in considerable quantity, but ex- 

 tremely local, 1875. 



132. H. elodes, L. Marsh St. John's Wort. 



Native ; in bogs, moorland swamps, and watery places of the 

 \Ailder tracts. Locally common. July, August, 

 c. I. Viverdon Down. Pillaton Down. Between POlaton Mill and 



Clapper Bridge, and near Newbridge, in the Notter Valley. 

 D. III. In the valley of the Tavy, near Hatch Mill. 



IV. Shaugh ; Meavy ; Keys, Fl. ii. 64. Bog on Derriford estate, and 



at Common Wood, Egg Buckland. 

 V. Bog in an enclosure below Hanger Down. Cro^iihill Do^nii. 



Cornwood. 

 VI. Dartmoor ! ; Fl. Dev. 128. In boggy places near I\ybridge ; 



Stew. Fl. Torq. 25. Hanger Down. 

 I have seen this at an elevation of nearly 900 feet on Dartmoor. 

 It is very remarkable that all the British species of the genus Hy- 

 pericum should occur "nithin the area. 



H. hircinum, L. Alien : apparently subspontaneous m one or two 

 spots. Two bushes on a bank by the Plymouth and Totnes Road, opposite 

 Flete western lodge. On a bank in a lane near Penquit, Ermington 

 (District vi.). Also in three places on a hedge-bank very near an old 

 house and garden at Pill, kSaltasli. (District ii.) 



H. elatum, Ait. Occasionally found, sprung from the seed of cultivated 

 bushes. 



