242 SCROPHULARIACE^. 



489. V. agrestis, L. Green Procumbent Speechvell. 



Kative or Colonist ; in waste spots, on earth-capped walls, and as 

 a field and garden weed. Very common. February to Novem- 

 ber. Area general. 

 A weed in Plymouth gardens, as well as in the cultivated fields of tl\e 

 gemi-moorland tracts. The leaves are of a lighter green than those of 

 polita ; the flowers are often white. It appears in greatest quantity in 

 the autumn, then springing up in plenty on some of our eartli-capped 

 walls, about the Avithered stems of species that have flowered, shed their 

 seed, and died. It and polita both occur close to the coast in arable 

 land. 



490. V. Buxbaumii, Ten. Buxhaum's Spyeedwell. 



Colonist, of quite recent introduction. In cultivated land, and 

 in waste spots and on banks about arable fields. Very common. 

 Flowers great part of the year. Area general. 

 c. I. Between Hessenford and the coast. Polbathick. Tideford. St. 

 Stephens. Landrake. 

 II. Weed in a garden at Wear, near Miflbrook, 1849 ; on Ninny 

 farm, same neighbourhood ; fields near Torpomt ! ; Saltash ! ; 

 between Cawsand and Rame ; Keys., Fl. iii. 143. Wilcove. 

 Elbridge. Ilatt. St. Dominick. 

 D. III. Mutley, 1845 ; fields near Stoke Churchyard ; Weston Mills ; 

 Keys, ih. Pennycross. St. Budeaux. Tamerton Foliot, by 

 the inlet, &c. Near a hedge-bank by the road below Buck- 

 land Monachorum Down, 1872. Roborough. Milton. Beer 

 Ferrers. 

 IV. In 1844 it was very rare about Plymouth, only one or two stations 

 being then known for it ; Egg Buckland ! ; Keys, ih. West 

 Hoe, 1873. Plymstock. Plympton. 

 V. Wembury ; spread to the sand and shingle of the shore near 

 the church, 1878. Creacombe. Newton Ferrers. Brixton. 

 Near Chaddlewood. 

 VI. ]Mothecombe, on sand by Meadowfoot Cove ; also on the Kingston 

 side of the Erme. Holbeton. Between Ivybridge and Ermmg- 

 ton, and at the latter place. 

 This seems to have increased with amazing rapidity. It now occurs in 

 the greatest profusion hi cultivated ground in numerous localities, and 

 grows also on banks and by roadsides, often having quite as wild an 

 appearance as 2'>oUta or agrestis, yet the Rev. W. S. Hore, writing in the 

 Phytologist, in 1841 (vol. i. 161), said of it, " Occurs both in Devon and 

 Cornwall, but not abundantly : it appears limited to the fields which have 

 been recently ploughed, and disappears m a season or two." 

 First record : Hore, 1841. 



