UMBELLIFER^. 175 



PHYSOSPERMUM, Cuss. 



344. P cornubiense, DC. Coriiish Bladder-seed. 



Native ; in woods, copses, bushy places on the borders of fields, 

 and on commons. Rare and remarkably local. From near the 

 end of June to August. 



c. I. Abounds in every bushy field in a direct line between Halton 

 Quay, on the banks of the Tamar (District ii.), and Newton 

 Ferrers, on the river Lynher (Notter). Jour. R. Inst. Corn. 

 iii. 50. The anonymous writer of the article from which this 

 is extracted says his attention was first called to the plant by 

 Mr. Kempthorne, of Callington, who fomid it growing in a field 

 near Newton Ferrers. Within the tract indicated I have seen 

 it in abundance in woods by a tributary of the Notter, near 

 Pillaton and below Viverdon Down ; also in considerable quan- 

 tity near Clapper Bridge, in several wooded or waste spots, 

 occurring on both sides of the river. Moreover it has a wider 

 range than the writer states ; for in 1 869 I discovered it gTowing 

 plentifully in spots on or about Hammet and Hayfield Downs, 

 between Newton and Quethiock. (See Jour. Bot. vii. 319.) 

 Still it does not grow in every bushy field between Halton 

 Quay and Newton. 

 II. In the upper part of the wood by Calstock Church, just below 

 the road leading to Harewood ; Notes of a Bot. Excursion, in 

 a letter to Mr. Rolfs from J. Woods, in Rep. Penzance Nat. 

 Hist. aiKl Antiquarian Soc, 1852 ; several plants seen in this 

 locality in July, 1867. Clether Wood, on the Tamar ; Banker, 

 in Naturalist, iii. 207 ; Keys, Fl. ii. 180. Vernico Down ; 

 Jour. R. Inst. Corn. iii. 50 ; in plenty in certain spots, 1870. 

 Between thirty and forty flowering plants on hedge-banks by a 

 lane near Dupath, about a mile from Callington, 1879. In 

 abundance in two uncultivated strips of ground of considerable 

 extent, bordering a field below Kit Hill, near Harrowbarrow ; 

 also in less quantity in adjoining furzy land, 1879. 



D. III. In an oak coppice near Tavistock, about a quarter of a mile from 

 New Bridge ; Hore in P?iyt. i. 162. Now completely eradi- 

 cated, the wood being metamorphosed into a corn-field ; 

 Goulding, Phyt. iii. 643, 1849. Notwithstanding this statement 

 it was collected many years subsequently by Mr. E, ]M. 

 Holmes, near Newbridge. Scattered all over and abundant in 

 some parts of a piece of uncultivated gTound called Pound 

 Down, according to a rough calculation rather more than an 

 acre in extent, between Blaxton and Inchers ; Jour. Bot. vi. 

 206. In two hilly pastures within a mile higher up the valley, 

 over a space of perhaps two acres ; 1868 : still m plenty in 



