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c. I. 3Iarkwell. Tideford. Trewandra. St. AViimolls. "With narrow 

 leaf-segments near Broadmoor, St. Stephens. 

 II. Near Cawsand ; Rame ; Keys, Fl. iii. QQ. Near Tregantle. 

 Antony. Between Cargreen and Tinnel ; with the segments 

 of the leaves very narrow. 

 D. III. Between Mutley and Burleigh. Ham Lane. St. Budeaux. 

 Blaxton. 

 IV. Catt^down, Plymstock. Goosewell and Shalaford. Egg Buck- 

 land. 

 V. Newton Ferrers ; Keys, ih. Revelstoke. Langdon. Brixton. 

 VI. Mothecombe. Orcherton. Ermington. 



Often occurs near houses, and in situations where it may have spread 

 from ancient cultivation. It formerly had a medicinal reputation. 



FILAGO, Tournef. 



400. F. germanica, L. Common Cudweed. 



Native ; by roadsides in open situations, in stony waste spots, on 



earth-capped walls, and as a weed in dry or barren fields. Very 



common. July to September. Area general. 



Occurs in the warm coast tracts as well as in the semi-moorland ones. 



Noticed at Devil s Point, Stonehouse, in 1872. A specimen gathered on 



a wall-top near Maristow, in 1871, comes near F. spathulata, Presl. 



401. F. minima, Fries. Slender Cudiveed. 



Native ; in dry waste spots and on commons. Rare. July to 

 September. 

 c. II. In dry spots on the hilly unbroken sea-bank above AVhitsand 

 Bay, between Rame Head and Lugger's Cave, gi'owing with F. 

 germanica ; in considerable quantity, but very local. 

 D. III. Roborough Down, 1860, 1869. 



IV. Shaugh Bridge ; F. H. Goulding, 1855 ; Herb. Bellamy. On 

 slaty soil about Rumple and Cann Quarries, in the Plym 

 Valley ; with F. germanica. 

 V. In considerable quantity, but over a very limited extent of ground, 

 on the sides of a cart-way near one of the clay-pits on Crown- 

 hill Down, July, 1878. 



GNAPHAIIUM, L. 



402. G. uliginosum, L. Marsh Cudweed. 



Native ; in waste spots where water occasionally settles ; about 

 ponds and pools on commons, and by roadsides. Very common. 

 July to September. Area general. 

 Occurs both in the enclosed and open portions of country. Sometimes 

 appears as a weed in damp tillage fields. 



