226 APOCYXACEAiE. 



457. V. minor, L. Lesser Periwinkle. 



Denizen ; possibly Native in a few places. On damp or shady- 

 banks near houses, rarely in woods. Rather common. March, 

 April ; and scattered flowers through considerable part of the 

 year. 



c. I. St. Stephens, on a hedge-bank by a small orchard or garden. On 

 one close to the bridge over the Fotter tributary between St. 

 INlellion and Pillaton, with white floAvers. With variegated 

 leaves on a hedge-bank by an orchard at Landrake. 

 11. In plenty near Kingsmill, on the hedge-bank of an orchard, by 

 the road to Landrake. 



D. III. North Prospect ; Ham ; Banks, Fi. part 2. Near Weston Mills ; 

 Jacob, FL. part 11. Whitleigh. In two or three spots in the 

 valley between Tamerton Foliot and Axter Gate ; in one place 

 on a hedge-bank, away from houses but near an orchard. 

 IV. Compton, near Plymouth ; white variety ; Rev. J. S. Tozer, FL 

 Deo. 43. Plymbridge ; Banks, Fl. part 2. Saltram ! ; Jacob, 

 Fl. part 11. Near Colebrook ! ; between Bickleigh Railway 

 Station and Shaugh Bridge ; Keys, Fl. iii. 110. Hedge-bank 

 by an orchard, Poole Hill ; and on one in the valley below 

 Bircham Cottage, Egg Buckland. Hedge-bank by the lane 

 behind Hemerdon House. Near Plympton Maurice. Hedge- 

 bank near Butlass farm-house. 

 V. Between Yealmpton and Ivybridge, near the Plymouth Road ; 

 Keys, lb. Langdon, associated with Galanthus nivalis. Horni- 

 combe and Fordbrook, Brixton. Between EfFord and Gorlofen. 

 Near Ford farm-house, by the Ridgway and Ivybridge Road. 

 In a copse and on an adjoining hedge-bank near Dunstone, by 

 the road to Newton Ferrers. About Yealmpton. Wilberton. 

 At Button, and elsewhere in orchards or near houses in the 

 neighbourhood of Cormvood. 

 VI. Ivybridge ; Keys, ib. ; in a wood near a farm-house called Pithill, 

 with Narcissus biflorus in an adjoining field. Orcherton. 

 Kingston. By an old garden, Pamflete. Holbeton, close to 

 the village. Between Ivybridge and Ugborough, with Anchusa 

 semiiervirens. 

 Fruit is but rarely seen on this plant, and the seeds are perhaps never 



perfected. A few flowers may often be found open so early as February. 



At many of its stations it occurs with other Denizen and sometimes with 



Alien species. 

 First record : Jones and Kirvjston, 1829. 



