232 SOLANACE^. 



The great rarity of this is remarkable, especially as there are so many 

 places about the salt water inlets and shores that appear well suited for 

 it. It would seem to have been commoner fifty years ago. 



Fii'st record : Jones and Kingston^ 1829. 



Lycium harharum, L. Ahen. By a wall close to an old house betAveen 

 Tothill and Laira, called Lower Mount Gould (District iv.); established 

 on a low slaty cliff, very near an old cottage above the tidal inlet between 

 Bridgend and Xewton Ferrers village (v.). 



ATROPA, L. 



469. A. Belladonna, L. Deadly Nirjldshade. 



Denizen ; on a low cliff and in waste spots close to salt water. 



Very rare. June to September, 

 c. II. In a shady nook, on a low cliff, below jNIomit Edgcumbe Park, 



one large plant, June, 1865 ; also noticed m the succeedmg 



year. 

 D. [Ill, Quarry at Cremil-pomt, Mr. Hunt, Rev. Dr. Jacob, Rev. Mr. 



Bree : very rare ; Banks, Fl. part 4. A plant or two on the 



shore below LongToom Point, Plymouth (Stonehouse), scarcely 



wild there; W. A. Bronifield, MS. N. Bot. Guide, ii. 551, 



1837.] 

 As ' Cremil Point ' is an old name of DcaoI's Point, I conclude that 

 Mr. Banks's station was on the Devon side of the water, and identical 

 with Dr. Bromfield's in the Xevj Botanisfs Guide. Banks observes : 

 " The great scarcity of the Belladonna in a wild state among us, and the 

 destruction of it durmg the late excavations at Cremil-point, are circum- 

 stances of congratulation rather than of regTet." I have not seen it 

 recently at the Blount Edgcumbe station, but it may still grow there. 

 First record : Banks, 1830. 



Datura Stramonium, L. Casual. Back of Moimt Tamar House ; foot 

 of garden-walls. Dockyard ; Banks, Fl. part 4. Keyham, a solitary 

 specimen, 1849 ; a weed m a neglected garden at Woodside, Plymouth ; 

 Keys, Fl. iii. 126. Seen as a Casual near Egg Buckland some years ago. 



HYOSCYAMUS, L. 



470. H. niger, L. Common Henha^ae. 



Native ; in sandy waste ground on or near the coast. Rare. June 

 to August. 

 c. I. Near "Wrinkle ; Mr. C. Johns, Banks, Fl. part 3 ; ! 1871. Sand- 

 bank at Seatou, 1873. 

 II. Near Lugger's Cave ; between ^MUlbrook and Whitsands ; Banks, 

 lb. Tregantle ! ; Jacob, Fl. part 15. Rame ; Keys, Fl. iii. 

 126 ; a few large plants a little west of the church, 1871. 



