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D. IV. Two patches on a dry bank in a field on Derriford estate, Egg 



Buckland. 



Looks considerably more like the cultivated Thyme {T. vulgaris) than 



does T. Serijyllum. 



OEIGANUM, L. 



523. 0. vulg-are, L. Common Marjoram. 



Native ; on banks, and in bushy and rocky waste places, especially 

 in a limestone soil. Rather, but locally, common. July to 

 September. 



c. I. Perhaps nowhere indigenous in this District. Seaton ; quite 

 sparingly by the road to St. Germans from the sands. By the 

 Crafthole and Looe Road, near Narkurs. Bank between Tide- 

 ford and Heskyn Mill. Near Moditon Mill. Trevollard and 

 Shillingham, St. Stephens. 

 II. Hedges in the road between Saltash and Carkeel ; Banks, Fl. 

 part 5. Between Cremyll Beach and Maker Church ; Keys, 

 Fl. iii. 185. Hedge-bank near Bittleford farm-house, Pentillie. 



D. III. Cliffs on the north side of the Longroom Barracks ; about the old 

 pottery, Keyham ; Banks, ih. About King's Tamerton ; in this 

 neighbourhood with both purplish and dull white flowers. 

 Near Tamerton Foliot, by the road to Knackersknowle. Blax- 

 ton. Between Roborough Down and Buckland Monachorum : 

 near a bush of Symphoria racemosa. Between Morwellham 

 and the Weir Head. Between Horrabridge Station and 

 Tavistock. [A small patch on a hedge-bank near Pennycome- 

 quick, by the road to Stoke, 1879 ; since destroyed by building.] 

 IV. In bushy places on the gravelly soil in Cattedown Quarries ; 

 Banks, Fl. ih. Abundant on the limestone beds between the 

 Plyni estuary and Elburton ; in some spots with white flowers. 

 Between Staddiscombe and Bovisand ; the plant with white 

 flowers here also. Bank between Tothill and Laira. Near 

 Newnham. Near Bickleigh Bridge, by the road to Plympton. 

 Lane to Bickleigh from Roborough Down. 

 V. Very abundant about Wembury ; Jacob, Fl. part 8. Between 

 Lolesbury and Battisborough. Near Tor, and between Broad- 

 moor and Gala Cross, Newton Ferrers. Abundant for a few 

 yards between Ridgway and Ivybridge. 

 VI. Produced m the South Hams in suthcient quantity to supply all 

 the inhabitants with tea ; Pohvh. Hist. Devonsh. i. 90, 1797. 

 About jNIothecombe. Kingston, with white flowers in that 

 neighbourhood. Near Holbeton. Near Ivybridge. 

 Indigenous at least on the limestone of District iv., and in parts of 



Districts v. and vi. At many of the other stations probably derived from 



ancient cultivation. 



