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V. Newton Ferrers ! ; Keys, ib. Between Creacombe and Holbeton. 

 ^Yembury. By the inlet below Kitley Pond. About Yealmpton 

 and Torr. 

 VI. By Bigbury Bay. Saltercress. Battisborongh. Holbeton. Near 



jNIodbury. 

 Clearly indigenous in all the Districts, and probably so at most of the sta- 

 tions given. Nearly all of them are in the Avarmer portions of the country, 

 this shrub appearing most plentifully on the limestone rock, coast clifi's, 

 and in the hedges not far from salt-water. It ascends to 450 feet in 

 District i. The flowers, which are attractive to flies, exhale a very strong 

 and somewhat nauseous odour. 



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VINCA, L. 



456. Vinca major, L. Greater Periwinkle. 



Alien ; only where it has escaped from cultivation, or been planted. 

 Rare. Part of ]March to June, or later. 



c. 1. Near a cottage between Latchbrook and Lower Burraton, St. 

 Stephens. By a road to a limekiln at Polbathick. A large patch 

 in a thicket above a marsh at Tideford, near old cottages, 1875. 

 II. Between ]\[illbrook and Cremyll ; Keys, Ft. iii. 111. Spread from 

 cultivation to a bank above Millbrook Lake, near Southdown ; 

 in plenty. Hedge-bank close to Hay farm-house, near Antony. 

 Hedge-bank by a farm-yard at Carbeal, near Torpoint. A large 

 patch on a cliff by the Tamar between Saltash and Weard ; 

 also on a hedge-bank near an old house at Saltash. Hedge- 

 bank near Cargreen. Calstock, very near houses. 



D. III. [Near the first milestone on the turnpike road between Plymouth 

 and Tavistock, Rev. J. S. Tozer] ; by the ri\^det in Manadon 

 Wood ; Dr. Moore, Fl. Dev. 44. Hedge at Outland ; Banks, 

 Fl. part 2. Blaxton, on a bank and in a hedge, near a spot 

 where there would seem to have been a house at no distant 

 date. Between Maristow and Milton, near introduced shrubs. 

 Hedge by a cabbage garden near Beer Ferrers village. Hedge 

 near the mill at Tamerton Foliot. 

 IV. Compton ; Mr. C. Johns; Banks, ib. Hedge-bank, Laira ! ; 

 Holmes, Keys, Fl. iii. 111. Bank between the Vicarage House 

 and schools. Egg Buckland. 

 V. Near Yealm Bridge. 



VI. About Ivybridge ; Keys, ib. For a yard or two in a hedge be- 

 tween Ivybridge and Ermington, where a bush of Viburnum 

 Tinus also occurs. 



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