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IV. By the shore near Plymouth ; 3Tr. E. Forste?', jun. , Bot. 

 Guide, i. 200. Ramparts under tlie Citadel ! ; 3Ir. Bellamy, 

 Jacob, Fl. part 8. Staddon Heights ; W. A. Bromfield, MSS. 

 N. Bot. Guide, ii. 550 ! 1873. Cattedown ! ; by the footpath 

 in fields between Lipson and Compton ! ; Bickleigh ; Keys, FL 

 ii. 112. Mount Batten. Estover, &c., Egg Buckland. Near 

 Chaddlewood. 

 V. On the coast at Gurrows Down, Lambside, &c. Between Wem- 

 bury and Plymstock. Near Bridgend. Between Fordbrook 

 and Staddiscombe. 

 VI. Kingston, and between that and Ringmore. By the lane to 

 Efibrd from the Holbeton and Mothecombe Road. Between 

 Ivybridge and Ermington. 

 Apparently absent from the cold gxanitic tracts, and nmch of the 

 adjacent comitry. 



First record : Turner and Dlllwyn; 1805, on authority of E. Forster, 

 jun. 



142. L. usitatissimum, L. Common Flax. 



Alien or Casual ; by roadsides, and occasionally in arable land, 

 through bemg so^\ti with corn or other crops. Rather common. 

 Jmie to September. 

 0. I. Some dozens of plants near a house at Burraton, St. Stephens, 

 looking as if sprung from seed swept out at the garden gate, 

 Augiist, 1871. Several plants by the turnpike road at Pol- 

 bathick village, July, 1873. 

 II. One in a corn-field between Torpoint and St. Johns, July, 1871. 

 D. III. Several close to St. Budeaux Parsonage, August, 1866. One in 

 an oat-field, Whitleigh, June, 1870. Three by the roadside 

 near Cann House, Tamerton Foliot, July, 1870. A plant with 

 white flowers by a roadside at Stoke Damerel, July, 1867. 

 IV. One near Crabtree, 1865. Three with Trijolium jprattnse in a field 

 at Knackersknowle, August, 1865. Corn-field near Thornbury, 

 1865. Three plants by the roadside near Laira House, July, 

 1871. Sprmging up plentifully for a quarter of a mile by the 

 footway on the turnpike road betwen Marsh IVIills and Plymp- 

 ton St. Mary Church, July, 1874. 

 V. A plant by the turnpike road near Brixton Village, August, 1873. 

 The occurrence of this seems entirely due either to its seeds being un- 

 intentionally sown with corn or other crops, or else to the economic uses 

 of the seeds themselves, as ' Lmseed,' causing them to become scattered 

 about houses and by waysides, where they readily vegetate. I have 

 never seen ' Flax ' sown as a crop anywhere about Plymouth. 



