228 GENTIANACE^. 



D. III. Pasture land below Woodland Fort. In a field near Tamerton 

 Foliot village, above Drunkards' Lane. 

 IV. Bovisand ; Phyt. ib. On limestone near Hay farm-house, 1877. 

 By the ]Military road near Eflford Mill and Derriford, Egg 

 Buckland. Between Elbiu'ton and Plympton. 

 V. In a pasture field near Knighton, Wembury, 1878. One plant in 

 a field between Yealni Ferry and Newton Ferrers village, 1875 ; 

 in plenty among oats there, and two plants in a clover-field ; 

 1878. In a clayey spot about an old cart-track near Cliittleburn, 

 Brixton, 1878. 

 No record of this for District vi. , but it probably occurs in the coast 

 tract above Bigbury Bay. 

 First record : Jones, 1820. 



GENTIANA, L. 



460. G. campestris, L. Field Gentian. 



Native ; on dry downs, and in barren turfy pastures. Rare. July 

 to October ; very sparingly in the spring. 



0. II. Heathy ground, Vernico ; Jour. B. Inst. Corn. iii. 50. Hingston 

 Down ; one plant on the open common ; more m a peaty en- 

 closure, 1879. 



D. III. Roborough Down ; Dr. Moore, Fl. Dev. 47. Often seen on the 

 southern part ; it extends into District iv. near the Meavy 

 Road. Plaster Down, very sparingly, 1877. 

 IV, Side of the road leading by Bickleigh Down towards Bickleigh 

 village, 1860, 1868. In an enclosed peaty pasture, Hemerdon 

 Ball ; about half-a-dozen plants in flower ; one with white 

 blossoms, ]May 17th, 1870 ; also four specimens in flower in 

 another rough pasture : one recently passed out of flower, 

 another in flower in this locality. May 27th, 1878. (See notice 

 respectmg the spring-flowering of this plant in Jour. Bot. viii. 

 223, 356.) In profusion in the two pastures, and also in other 

 pastures at Hemerdon ; several plants with white flowers, 

 October, 1870. In fair quantity in a small piece of waste 

 heathy ground near the old workings of Wheal Sidney Mine, 

 between Plympton and Shaugh, 1877. 

 VI. In considerable quantity and in several spots in a rough turfy 

 pasture below Hanger Down ; two plants with pure white 

 flowers, 1879. 

 First record : Jones and Kingston, 1829. 



MENYANTHES, L. 



461. M. trifoliata, L. Buckhean. 



Native ; in bogs on moors, and in other swampy places. Rather 

 rare. May. 



