GERAXIACE J:. / 



VI. By MeadoTv-foot Cove, Mothecombe, and about the Erme estuary 

 at Pamflete, &c. ; also above Bigbury Bay below Ring- 

 more. 

 Very rare in inland situations. The station of ' Five-fields Lane ' 

 given by Banks was built over several years ago, and now forms a part of 

 North Road, in the town of Plymouth. 

 First record : Jones, 1820. 



154. E. moschatum, Sm. Mush Stork's Bill. 



Native ; on banks, earth-capped walls, in pastures and waste 

 spots on the coast or near tidal waters. Rare. April to Sep- 

 tember, 

 c. I. On the south-west side of St. Germans Beacon, at above 400 

 feet. By the Looe road a little west of Seaton. Down- 

 derry. 

 II. Plentiful about the Garrets, Millbrook ! ; Banks, Fl. part 7. 

 Millbrook ; Herb. Borrer, 1833. Whitsand Bay ; Hore ; near 

 Cawsand, descending from ]Maker Heights I ; Keys, Fl. ii. 68. 

 Between Rame Head and Penlee Pomt. Wilcove, on top of a 

 wall and by a footway below. Wall-top at Saltash, and in 

 that neighbourhood at Combe and Weard. Tinnel, on a wall- 

 top, &c. 

 D. III. Blaxton, in a dry hilly pasture below the Horrabridge road. 

 [Two plants by the Cemetery Road, near Osborne Villas, Stoke 

 Damerel, 1863.] 

 IV. Near Plymouth ; Mr. E. Forster, jun., Bot. Guide, \. 205. Near 

 the shore not far from the Garrison at Plymouth ; Gough, 

 Camel. I. m*, ed. 2, 1806 ! 1880. Oreston Rock, near Gabber 

 Gulley ! ; Banks, Fl. part 7. 

 V. West Wembury ; Banks, ihicl. On the turfy ridge capping the 

 boundary wall of the grounds at Langdon Hall, opposite the 

 lodge. Newton Ferrers, in the village. 

 There is no record for District vi. Unquestionably a native of both 

 Devon and Cornwall, but yet a species liable to occur casually on ballast 

 or refuse. A few flowers may sometimes be found on this plant so early 

 as JVIarch : its flowermg season begms earlier than is stated m some of 

 our text-books. 



I have never seen it in cultivation, although Banks, writing in 1830, 

 says of it, " Much esteemed for its musk-like fragTance, and generally 

 propagated with other garden annuals ; nor indeed are any of the 

 numerous and beautiful nosegays which deck our market stalls considered 

 perfect without a branch of Muscovy or Pick-needle." He gives these as 

 two of its common names. 



First record : Turner and Dilhoyn, 1S05. 



