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481. L. Elatine, Mill. Sharp-leaved Fluellen. 



Native or Colonist ; in arable land, and waste spots about culti- 

 vated fields. Very common. July to October. Area general. 

 One of the commonest weeds in fields of corn, turnips, mangold 

 wurzel, &c. 



482. L. spuria, Mill. Round-leaved Fluellin. 



Colonist ; in arable land Avith corn, turnips, and other crops, and 

 occasionally by roadsides. Rare. July to October. 

 c. II. Corn-fields, Antony ; Jacob, Fl. part 5. 

 D. III. Key ham, 1852 ; Banker, K<iy^-> Fl. iii. 134. 



IV. Near Pomphlet Mills, Plymstock ; Goulding^ I^<iys, ih.; near 

 Plymstock, 1860. In fields near Egg Buckland village, 1858, 

 1879, &c. ; in the military road below Austen Fort, 1870. 

 Field below Efford Manor House, 1860 ; a plant on a hedge- 

 bank there, 1877. Bovisand, a single plant growing from a 

 crevice in a wall, August, 1877. 

 V. A plant or two by the side of a road near Bridgend, August, 

 1861. In plenty in a field of oats by the path to the Yealni 

 Ferry from Newton Ferrers, July, 1878. 

 First record : Jacob, 1835. 



L. supina, Desf. Decumbent Toadflax. 



Alien ; established in waste spots on and about some limestone 

 rubble heaps. Very rare. Latter part of April to October. 

 D. IV. Cattedown Quarries, Plymouth ; Keys, Fl. iii. 135 ; also in Phijt. 

 ii. 938-40, 1847, and iii. 1022, 1050. " Catdown Quarry, Ply- 

 mouth, July, 1847. Introduced ten or twelve years before with 

 ballast from Rouen, Mr. Johns and Mr. Hore." Herb. Borrer. 

 There is a specimen in Herb. Fasten, with the note, " Natural- 

 ized at Catdown Quarries, probably introduced with ballast 

 from the Continent, Charles Harjyer, 1846." Still occurs in 

 fair quantity on the limestone at Cattedown, growing on the 

 rubble mounds and in waste spots about them. On the railway 

 line at Crabtree, in considerable quantity, 1877 ; no doubt in- 

 troduced with limestone rubble brought from Cattedown for 

 the repair of the line ; first noticed here by Mr. W. Curnow, of 

 Penzance, a few years ago. 

 As this plant has grown at Cattedown for certainly more than forty 

 years, I have given it a place in this Flora, though without a number, as 

 it is one of the ' Excluded Species ' of the London Catalogue. The figure 

 in Eiujlish Botany, ed. 3, was drawn from a specimen that I sent to Dr. 

 Boswell. His description also Avas from plants obtauied here. 

 First record : Keys, in Phyt., 1847. 



