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three on a hedge-bank by a garden, May, 1871 ; still m plenty 

 outside a garden, 1877. 

 II. Near Saltash ; Jacobs Keys^ Fl. iii. 117. 

 D. III. Cremil Point ; and about Newbridge ; Banks, Fl. part 5. Banks 

 of the river near Tavistock ; Mr. Knappe, With. Brit. Plants 

 ii. 285 ed. 7. A single plant at Pounds, Pennycross, 186(j. 

 One by Maristow lawn, 1868 ; some plants there the succeeding 

 year. A few in a field at Ford, very near houses, 1873. 

 IV. Cattedown Quarries ; Banks, Fl. part 5. Crabtree ; Keys, Fl. 

 iii. 116. One plant in a field below EflFord, 1873. More than 

 a dozen on or about rubbish heaps at Deadman's Bay, near 

 Cattedown, 1873. 

 Perhaps only a Casual, except at Port Wrinkle. Withering's Tavistock 

 station may be beyond the area. 

 First record : Jones, 1820. 



SYMPHYTUM, Tournef. 



562. S. officinale, L. Common Comfrey. 



Denizen ; perhaps Native in a few places ; by streams, in fields 

 and waste spots. Rather rare. JNIay to September. 

 0. I. Notter Bridge, 1864 ; Keys, Fl. iii. 119. Sheviock and Tre- 

 wrickle, near houses. Hedge-bank near an orchard between 

 Penters Cross and St. Mellion ; between the latter place and 

 St. Dommick var. patens on the border of a field. Near a 

 farm-house between the Saltash and Callington Road and 

 Pillaton. Near some cottages between Clapper Bridge and 

 Derniford. Minard Cross, near houses. Rosevale, near Trerule. 

 II. Banks of the Tamar, near the Weir Head ! ; Rev. Dr. Jacob, 

 Banks, FL part 2. 

 D. III. [Waste places, Gunwharf, Miss Atkinson; between Stoke and 

 MUehouse ; id. et. ih.^ On the border of an orchard between 

 Knackersknowle and Tamerton Foliot. Edge of Maristow 

 lawn, above the Tavy. 

 IV. Knackersknowle ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 206 ; Roborough ; 

 Saltram ; id. Fl. iii. 118. Seen near Saltram, between Chelson 

 JMeadow and Pomphlet farm-house. Stream at Shalaford, 

 below the cottages. 

 V. Vale near Wembury Church, by the road to Langdon. 

 VI. Under a wall close to the town of Modbury, by the Kingsbridge 



Road ; with light green foliage and white Howers. 

 This has still some repute amongst the country folk for efficacy in 

 pectoral complaints, and was, I believe, formerly used in veterinary 

 practice. I have seen it in cultivation. 

 First record : Banks, 1830. 



