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Y. Yealmpton ; Miss Harrison, Keys, ib. Between Noss and Yealm 

 Feny. In a lane near Puslinch, and at Rounds Nest between 

 that and Yealmpton village. 

 YI. Between Kingston village and the Errae estuary. Pamflete. 

 Holbeton. 



One of the handsomest and most striking of our wild flowers, M. 

 grandijiora, Sm., cannot be distinguished even as a variety. Near Fancy, 

 in District iv., this ascends to 470 feet, with Aquilegia and Viola hirta. 

 The former is often seen where the Melittis occurs. 



MARRUBIUM, L. 



535. M. vulgare, Z. White Horehound. 



Alien or Denizen ; in waste places near houses. Yery rare. July 

 to September, 

 c. I. A single plant by a wall bounding a garden at Trevollard, St. 



. Stephens, 1871. 

 D. Y. One in a waste spot by the churchyard at Wembury, 1867 ; 

 another by the side of the road between the church and 

 Knighton village, below a cottage garden, 1873. 

 YI. Erme Bridge, July, 1849 ; specimen in Herb. Gould. 

 Still sometimes cultivated in cottage gardens. 



BALLOTA, L. 



536. B. nigra, L. Black Horehound. 



Native ; in waste places, on hedge-banks, and by roadsides, espe- 

 cially about houses. Yery common. June to August, or later, 

 c. I. Downderry. Trevollard, &c., St. Stephens. Tideford. jNIarkwell. 

 Pillaton. 

 II. Rame ; Calstock ; Keys, Fl. iii. 194. Maker. Millbrook. Saltash ; 

 seen here with purplish-white flowers, 1879. 

 D. III. Stoke Damerel. Pennycross. St. Budeaux. Blaxton. Holes Hole. 

 lY. Between Plymouth and Cattedown. Plymstock. Compton. 



Plympton. 

 Y. Wembury. Newton Ferrers. Bridgend ; a variety with white 

 flowers here. Bevelstoke. Spriddlestone, &c., Brixton. El- 

 burton. 

 YI. Mothecombe ; a slight variety vdth. densely pubescent stems and 

 foliage above Meadowfoot Cove. Carsewell. Holbeton. Mod- 

 bury. Ermington. 

 Shows a peculiar partiality for growing about dwellings, flourishing by 

 the dusty roadside and by the beaten path ; yet apparently not occurring 

 as an escape from cultivation in these places, but because the conditions 

 they afford suit it best. 



