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PICRIS, L. 



428. P. hieracioides, L. Hawk-weed Ox-tongue. 



Native ; on banks, by roadsides, and in bushy places. Rare, and 

 extremely local. July to September. 

 D. IV. Cattedown Quarries ; Keys, FL iii. 79. Plentiful on the lime- 

 stone between Plymouth and Elburton ; growing in waste 

 bushy and stony spots, and by the roadsides. Between Plym- 

 stock and Elburton. Rather sparmgly about Crabtree, where 

 trappean rocks appear amongst the slates and shales ; also by 

 the Dartmoor tramway at Shalaford. One plant near Thorn- 

 bury Corner, Egg Buckland, August, 1871. 

 Never met with in the other five Districts. 



HELMINTHIA, Juss. 



429. H. echioides, Gaertn. Bristly Ox-toiujue. 



Native ; in damp clayey places by roadsides, on the borders of 

 fields, and on cliffs. Rather common. Part of June to August, 

 or later, 

 c. I. Port Wrinkle, &c., Sheviock. Do^nderry. 



II. Between Whitsand Bay and Rame. Millbrook. Between Antony 

 and Tregantle Fort. 

 D. III. Plymouth a;nd Saltash Road. 



IV. Cattedown Quarries, Crabtree ! and elsewhere about Plymouth ; 

 between Hooe and Wembury; Keys, Fl. iii. 80. Radford. 

 Turnchapel. Between Tothill and Laira, 1871. 

 V. Wembury, by a low cliff, &c. By the coast near Revelstoke 



Church. 

 VI. Kingston, above the Yealm estuary. Ermington. 

 Unrecorded for the colder and semi-moorland tracts. 



TRAGOPOGON, L. 



430. T. pratensis, L. Yelloio Goat's Beard. 



Native ; on grassy banks, m open places by roadsides, and in 



pastures. Rather common. May to August. 

 c. II. About Maker, Mr. Sconce ; Banks, Fl. part 3 ; may belong to 



h. minor. Calstock Churchyard. One plant near Weir Head, 



September, 1877. 

 D. III. Glacis of Devonport fortifications ; Banks, ib. ; a few specimens 



by the Raglan Barracks, Jmie, 1874. 

 IV. Embankment leading to Saltram Wood ! ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 



324 ; Queen Anne's Battery, Plymouth, July, 1868 ; Id. Fl. 



iii. 78. In fair quantity' in grassy spots near West Hoe 



