280 PRIMULACELE. 



diiced. Some examples mostly resemble one parent, others 

 the other, but all that I have noticed have had at least some 

 of the flowers raised on a scape, and generally all have beeii so 

 armnged. About the bordei^s of a pasture between Lophill 

 and Denham Bridge, eight plants, 18GS ; several on a hedge- 

 bank, 1S75. About half-a-dozen in an orchai'd near Maristow, 

 with the two parents, 1875. 



566. P. ofScinalis, L. Cowslip. 



Native ; in old pastures, meadows, and on banks. Rare and very 

 local. April, ^lay. 



c. II. Xear Cotehele, plentifully ; Pohch. Hist. Corn. iv. 125, note, ed. 

 2. In a field at Maker, 1845, sparingly and possibly sponta- 

 neous ; Momit Edgcumbe (in the gi'ounds) ; Ket/s, Fl. iii. 198. 

 In plenty and all over a large pasture adjoining the groimds of 

 a house near Cargreen, by the road from Penters Cross to 

 Landulph ; some plants with purplish flowers, 1873. 



D. III. Maristow ; Gould, and Harper^ S. D. Lit. Chron. 131. Speci- 

 men in fferb. Phjm. Inst., Rev. W. S. Hore, 1836. Pastiure 

 near the Knackersknowle and Tamerton Road, very sparingly ; 

 Pkyt. V. N.S. 370. Budshead, near the mill (St. Budeaux) ; 

 Holmes, Keys, FL iii. 197. It occurs in profusion in Maristow 

 lawn, and is found also at Postham, and in several places lying 

 between Maristow and the Plymouth and Ta%istock Road, from 

 the fourth milestone from PhTuouth to Roborough Down. Be- 

 tween ^laristow and ^Milton. In pastures in the Tavy A'alley, 

 between Lophill and Denham Bridge. 

 IT. Leigham, Egg Buckland; Phyt. v. N. S. 370. [Field near 

 Compton, where some ten years since it was plentiful, but now 

 rare if not extinct ; Keys, Fl. iii. 197.] 

 Y. Comwood, field adjoining the grounds of Lady Rogers (Blach- 

 ford) ; id. et. ib. 

 This may be derived from ancient cultivation in Districts iv. and v., 



but certainly must be considered indigenous in iii. ; and probably it is 



likewise so in ii. 

 First record : Pohchele, 1816 ; earher if the extract be also contained 



in ed. 1, which I have not seen. 



' LYSIMACHIA, Z. 



567. L. vulgaris, L. Common Loosestrife. 



Native ; on river banks and in other damp spots. Very rare. 

 August, September. 

 c. I. Sparingly on both banks of the river, above Notter Bridge, 1864; 

 also a few plants between Clapper Bridge and Pillaton, 1869. 



