RUBIACE^. 185 



G. erectum, Huds. Error, probably. Near Plymouth. Mr. G. Banks 

 has sent me specimens agreemg in every particular with the E. B. plant, 

 except that the leaves are all minutely, but chstinctly and thickly, downy 

 on the underside ; Hook., Brit. Fl. ed. 2, 65, 1831. The station is also 

 given m N. Bat. Guide, 19, and by the Rev. \Y. S. Hore, in Phijt. i. 163. 



ASPERULA, L. 



362 A. odorata, L. Sweet Woodruff. 



Native ; in damp woods and on banks. Rare, and very local. 

 May, June. 

 D. III. Warlegh (Warleigh) Wood ; FL Dev. 26 ; in plenty ! Maristow; 

 Keys, Fl. iii. 49. In a low damp wood between Lophill and 

 Denham Bridge, also in a large wood on the Beer side of the 

 Tavy. 

 IV. Abundant in the woods on both sides of the Plym, particularly 

 in Bickleigh Vale ; Keys, ib. I have seen it in Avooded spots 

 about Rumple, also in the vale between Fancy and Common 

 Wood, and in Fancy Vale. Bank m a field at Derriford, and 

 on a hedge-bank near Stoneybridge, Egg Buckland ; extending 

 for some yards in both places. Hedge-bank m Colebrook 

 village ; perhaps from a garden. 

 V. In plenty on a hedge-bank near the village of Cornwood. 

 VI. Godwell, near Ivybridge, 'but doubtfidly wild ;' Miss Lothman ; 

 Keys, ib. 



A. arvensis, L. Casual. A few yards within the left-hand gate, at 

 the end of Longbridge, Saltram ; Banks, Fl. part 8 ; Jacob, FL part 12, 

 with coloured plate. Fomid by the Rev. C. A. Johns at the above 

 station in 1830, but the Rev. W. S. Hore, writing in Phytologist (i. 162), 

 in the year 1841, says that at that time it had disappeared. 



SHERARDIA, L. « 



363. S. arvensis, L. Blue Field Madder. 



Native or Colonist ; on dry banks, by roadsides, and as a weed in 



cultivated land. Very common. April to November. Area 



general. 



Found all over the cultivated and enclosed portions of the area. A 



variety with white flowers seen near Staddiscombe (District iv.), and near 



a limestone quarry between Yealmpton village and Pushnch (v.). 



