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Molhigo, having mostly the characters of the former ; but, in Jmie, 1865, 

 I found a plant by the Plymouth and Saltash Road, at about two miles 

 from Plymouth, which, on the contrary, was more like the latter, although 

 to a certain extent intermediate. It, Avith one of the Wembury forms, 

 will be found described in Bot. Ex. Club Eep. 1865, 8, 9. It grew close 

 to a mass of Moling o and a patch of verum ; was still there in 1872, but 

 seemed dwmdling away, and has since died out. 



357. G. Mollug-o, L. Common Great Bedstraw. 



Native ; on banks, in hedges and thickets. Very common. Part 

 of June to part of August. Area general. 

 One of our most abundant wild plants, occurring in plenty close to the 

 town. Its earliest flowers open about the third week in June, and for 

 some time thence the mimense w^hite panicles form one of the most con- 

 spicuous features in the vegetation of our lanes. Some plants are per- 

 fectly glabrous, but others have stems and leaves covered with a thick 

 coating of short woolly hairs. 



358. G. saxatile, L. Heath Bedstraw. 



Native ; on commons, moors, dry or stony banks m the wilder 

 tracts, in open spots in woods, and in old pasture land on the 

 coast. Common, though somewhat locally so, from the progress 

 of cultivation. June, July. 

 0. I. Between Hessenford and Seaton. Sheviock Wood. Pillaton. 

 Cadsonbury. 

 II. Mount Edgcumbe, on the turf and by the walks ; Keys, Fl. iii. 

 52. Between St. Mellion and Etheric. Between Ashland and 

 Harrowbarrow. 

 p. III. Roborough Down ; Keys, Fl. iii. 51. Postham Wood. Beer 

 Ferrers. Sampford Spiney. 

 lY. Near Thornbury and Common Wood, Egg Buckland. Hemerdon 

 Ball. Sheepstor. Near Cadover Bridge. 

 V. Wembury. In a brake near Elburton. Above the coast near 

 Lambside. Lutton. Crownhill Down. 

 VI. In furzy ground above Bigbury Bay, at Kingston. Wood by the 

 Erme near Efford. Between Ivybridge and Harford. 

 One of the commonest of plants in the unenclosed moory tracts. In 

 some of the highly cultivated parts not to be seen for miles together. 



359. G. palustre, L. Marsh Bedstraw. 



Native ; in marshes, by ditches, streams, and in other damp 

 spots. Very common. July to September. 

 c. I. Seaton Valley. Near Antony. Trematon. Meadow at Polscove 

 {c. Witheringii). Tiddy Valley. Viverdon Down. 



