100 ROSACEA. 



11. Hay Lane, and near Borough farm-house, between Toi-pomt and 

 Antony. Saltash. Bank by Forder Lake. 

 D. III. Plymouth and Saltash Road. Hedge near Bull Pomt by the 

 foot-path across the Government ground. 

 IV. On the bushy edge of the first of the path-fields by the old road 

 from Tothill to Laira, by the marshes. Hedge by the Ply- 

 mouth and Totnes Road between Pomphlet and Billacombe. 

 Plympton. 

 V. Near Bridgend. By the Yealm near Kitley. Cornwood. 

 VI. Eff"ord. Holbeton. Modbury. 



The shrub occurring at many, perhaps all, of the stations given is, I 

 think, referrible to the F. fruticans, Weilie, of the Continental botanists. 

 Its larger flowers and leaves, the latter hairy below, and its more plum- 

 like aspect m general, serve to distmguish it from the sloe, though it 

 comes nearer to it than do any of the other forms assignable to insititia, 

 Anglor. The shrub given as occurring between Pomphlet and Billa- 

 combe has fewer hau's on the under surface of the leaves than is usual, 

 and the leaves themselves are more gradually narrowed mto the petiole 

 than is commonly the case. I do not venture, without further study, 

 to severally assign to insititia or domestica some of the bushes growing 

 about Plymouth. Among them is a form that has leaves so thickly hairy 

 below that they are rendered quite clothy in texture, and the young 

 branches have many short downy hau's, yet the large leaves and the 

 general habit of growth make the bushes look very similar to some 

 of our cultivated plums. Possibly this form may be the P. insititia of 

 Continental botanists, as distinct from P. fruticans. (See remarks in 

 Rep. Bot. Ex. Club, 1876, p. 6.) 



210. P. domestica, L. Wild Plum. 



Denizen ; in hedges and bushy spots near houses. Rather 

 common. April. 



c. I. Downderry, as a hedge-row bush, very near houses. Hedge by 

 an old lane between Notter farm-house and Moditon JNIill ; 

 bush plentifully spinous below, but the leaves on the young 

 shoots too large and broad for insititia, Anglor. 

 II. Hedge-row near Kingsand, by the road to Millbrook. Hedge 

 near a house at Lower Tregantle, with Smyrnium on the bank 

 below. Hedge, Pill near Saltash. 



D. III. Hedge close to an orchard at Combe, between Weston Mills and 

 Honicknowle. Hedge, Blaxton ; probably domestica. 

 IV, Ubbaton, Bickleigh ; Keys, Fl. ii. 131. Hedge-row by the Ply- 

 mouth and Totnes Road, near Pomphlett farm-house. Hedge 

 by an orchard near Hay farm-house. Between ]\Iarsh Mills 

 and Plympton St. 3Iary Church. Hedge at Alderpit, Egg 



