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483. L. vulgaris, Mill. Yellow Toadflax. 



Native ; on hedge-banks and about the borders of fields. Very 

 common. From the latter part of Jmie to October. Area 

 general. 

 Grows on hedge-banks close to Plymouth, as in Furze Hill Lane, &c. ; 

 occurs on the limestone by Stonehouse Hill, between the towns of Devon- 

 port and Stonehouse, and is a frequent species over the enclosed country. 

 A splendid spike of the curious Peloria variety or form, on a bank by 

 Hay Lane, near Torpoint, with eleven expanded flowers, also four or five 

 other spikes with unopened buds, growing near the ordinary plant ; July, 

 1873. 



The flowers of this plant vary greatly in depth of colour ; the palate is 

 sometimes yellow instead of bright orange. 



484. L. minor, Besf. Least Toadflax. 



Colonist, possibly Native in some localities ; in depressions where 

 water occasionally settles about limestone quarries, in cultivated 

 fields with a light soil, and m chy spots about roads or foot- 

 paths. Rather rare. June to September. 



0. I. Near Polbathick, 1862 ; Keys., Fl. iii. 135. In neglected garden 

 ground below Screasdon Fort, 1879. In a field of barley be- 

 tween Blunts and Clapper Bridge, August, 1874. Two plants 

 on the border of a field of turnips and swedes between Modi- 

 ton Mill and Leigh, August, 1875. In fair quantity near an 

 old slate quarry at Wivelscombe ; also on the railway line below 

 Wivelscombe House, 1878. 

 II. Near Torpoint ; between it and St. Johns, 1865, 1875 ; in a 

 barley arish between it and Antony, 1870 ; five plants on an 

 earth-capped wall, 1879, &c. One near Moditonham, August, 

 1873. 



D. III. Bank beloAv tlie railway line at Pennycomequick, Plymouth, 1879. 

 Cornfield between Tamerton Foliot and Roborough, 1861. 

 Three plants among mangold wurzel in a field near Beer 

 Alston, September, 1875. 

 IV. Limestone quarry near Laira Bridge ! ; Jacob, Fl. part 5. Catte- 

 down Quarries, 1863 ; Keys, FL iii. 135 ; seen very sparmgly 

 on a quay at Cattedown, July, 1875. A specimen from Catte- 

 down, August, 1845, C. Harper, in Herb. Easton. By the 

 limestone quarries at Billacombe, 1860, 1872, in the one near 

 Hay farm-house, 1867. Among mangold wurzel in a field be- 

 tween Elburton and Plympton, August, 1866. On slaty refuse 

 in the vale between Plymouth and Lipson, probably spread 

 to the spot from the railway line, 1872. On the railway line 

 at Laira, and between Colebrook and Chaddlewood, apparently 



