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c. I. Hedges near St. Germans Beacon. Hessenford. Tideford. Tre- 



vollard. Near Hatt. 



II. JSTear Saltash ; Keys, Fl. ii. 116. Betrt'een St. Mellion and Halton 



Quay. Calstock. 



D. III. Near Weston Mills. Budshead Wood. Tamerton Foliot. Beer 



Ferrers. Sampford Spiney. 



IV. Woods of the Plym Valley. Bickleigh. Meavy. 



V. Harestone. Near Lee ]Mill Bridge. 



VI. Near Kingston. Ivybridge. Erme Valley, on Dartmoor, just 



above Harford. 



In some of the extensively arable portions of the area not now of 



frequent occurrence, through the progress of cultivation. 



Its use for besoms or brooms has led to the local name, ' bazzam ' or 



' bizzom,' and thence to the simile, " As yellow as bazzam ; " that is, as 



yellow as the flowers of the besom or broom plant. About Plymouth I 



have never heard the name 'bazzam' given to Calluna vulijaris, the 



heather, to which Mr. Pengelly, in a paper on "Verbal Provincialisms 



of S.W. Devonshire, says it "was applied jJr/ma/'^7y." {Trans. Devonsh. 



Assoc, vu. 440.) 



ONONIS, L. 



167. O. arvensis, -L. Procumbent Rest-harrow ; ^ Cammick.^ 



Native ; on diy banks, in pastures and waste turfy spots. Com- 

 mon. July, August, 

 c. I. Between Tregantle and Crafthole. Near Polbathick. Between 

 Landrake and Tideford. Pillaton. 

 II. Millbrook. Rame. Between Torpoint and St. Johns. St. 

 Dominick. 

 D. III. Devil's Point. Stonehouse. Pennycross. Blaxton. Beer Ferrers. 

 IV. Hoe ! and Cattedown ; Kei/s, S. D. Lit. Chron. 300, and Fl. 

 ii. 117. Saltram. Turnchapel. Egg Buckland. Plympton 

 St. Mary. 

 V. Wembury. Yealmpton. Cornwood. Revelstoke ; a very glandu- 

 lar-hairy form noticed between Wadham Sands and Revelstoke 

 Church, July, 1875. 

 VI. Kingston. Mothecombe. Ivybridge. Near Harford. 



0. spinosa, L. Wembury; Keys, Fl. ii. 117. Error. The Wembury 

 plant is the somewhat spinous form of 0. arvensis. 



ANTHYLLIS, L. 



168. A, vulneraria, L. Common Kidney Vetch. 



Native ; on the coast chfFs, and on rocky banks, or in dry, waste 

 places on a calcareous soil. Rather common, being general on 

 the coast cliffs, though extremely local m inland situations. 

 May to July, or later. 



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