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SOLIDAGO, L. 



418. S Virga-aurea, L. Common Golden-Rod. 



Native ; on rocky or bushy banks on the borders of copses and 

 woods, and on masses of rock in open situations. Common. 

 July to October, 

 c. I. Sheviock. St. Germans. Near Tregantle. Tideford. Near 

 Landrake. Pillaton. 

 II. Calstock ! ; Keys, Fl. iii. 59. CHff by Millbrook Lake. Near 

 Saltash. Kingsmill. St. Melhon. 

 D. III. Close to Weston Mills Lake, on a ' cutting ' by the road to Key- 

 ham. Woodlands. Warleigh Wood, &c., Tamerton Foliot. 

 Beer Ferrers. Sampford Spmey. 

 IV. Saltram ; Keijs, ib. Crabtree. About Plymbridge. Between 



Goosewell and Staddiscombe. Near Sheepstor. 

 V. Between Dunstone and Holbeton. Between Gala Cross and 

 Lolesbury. Kitley. Between Ermingtoh and Cadleigh. Near 

 Slade. 

 VI. Between Mothecombe and Battisborough. Ivybridge. 

 The flowers of this plant attract various kinds of Hies, and I have also 

 seen a wasp obtainmg food from them. 



TUSSILAGO, L. 



419. T. Farfara, L. Common Coltsfoot. 



Native ; by damp or clayey roadsides, on rubble heaps, and in 

 poor or neglected fields. Very common. February to April. 

 Area general. 

 - Grows close to Plymouth by the line of the railway, and so long ago as 

 1830 was recorded by Banks from " Trenches about Devonport," and 

 " Gunwharf ." He speaks of it as " the first plant that vegetates in lime- 

 stone rubble, the first to ornament with flowers, and to enliven with broad 

 foliage, the wastes and numerous naked mounds in and about the public 

 works and quarries of our neighbourhood." By the second week in April 

 this early-flowering plant is sheddmg the seed of the first flowers. 



PETASITES, Tournef. 



420. P. vulgaris, Desf. Common Butter-bur. 



Native ; in low damp ground. Rare. Part of March to part of 

 May. 

 c. I. By the river side between Hessenford and Seaton ; Pascoe, Phyt. 

 ii. 943 ; ! 1874. 

 II. Near Weir Head ; Goidd. and Harper, S. D. Lit. Chron. 141. 

 In orchard ground at St. Johns village, mistaken for P. 

 fragrans by Keys {Fl. iii. 58) ; the sub-female plant. 



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