PRIMULACE^. 



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VI. Ivybridge ; Stew. Fl. Torq. 104. Yale between Kingston village 



and Bigbury Bay. Erme Valle}^ 

 First record : Banks, 1830. 



CENTUNCULUS, L. 



573. C. minimus, L. Bastard Pimpernel. 



Native ; in damp sandy or muddy spots on commons, in clayey 

 fields and pastures, and by roadsides. Rather rare. July to 

 October. 

 c. I. In waste turfy places by the Saltash and Callington Road, near 

 Carkeel, 1875. Elevated turfy spot close to Notter farm-house, 

 1875. Sparingly by the road between Moditon jNIill and Rouse 

 farm-house, 1875. In the vale of the tributary of the Notter, 

 between St. Mellion and Pillaton, also seen by the road to St. 

 Mellion, 1869, 1875. Near Clapper Bridge, about cart-ruts in 

 a road, 1870. Viverdon Down. Pillaton Down. 

 II. Damp turfy spot between St. Johns and Millbrook, 1866 ; field 

 near Millbrook, 1877. Between Torpoint and St. Johns ; in 

 different spots and at various tunes ; at one m the hollows 

 formed by the hoofs of cattle in a damp field, at another ex- 

 tending as a weed amongst a crop of wheat from the side of a 

 pool. On the damp border of a barley-field l}dng between the 

 last station and Antony village, 1875. In a rough clayey field 

 near Hatt. In abimdance in a peaty enclosure from Hingston 

 Dowai, 1879. 

 D. III. Roborough Down ; Phyt. vi. N.S. 354. In a meadow by the 

 stream runnmg from Roborough Down to Blaxton, 1871. 

 IV. In damp but shallow soil, probably washed at times by the sea, 

 between Staddon Point and Wembury ; probably hundreds of 

 plants, but all growing within the compass of a square yard, 

 June, 1865. Damp sides of the road from Elburton to 

 Plympton, 1871. On Crownhill Down, near Newnham Park. 

 Bushy meadow between Bickleigh and Roborough Down, and 

 on the Down. In the vale of the Mew, between Meavy and 

 Hoo Meavy. 

 V. In plenty in a clayey meadow by the turnpike road, between Lee 

 Mill Bridge and Cadleigh, 1879. Very sparingly in damp 

 ground near the bridge above Dalamore, 1869. In considerable 

 quantity in an enclosure below Hanger Down, 1879. Very 

 sparingly on the Green at Westlake, 1879. 

 There is no record of this for District vi., but it is almost certain to 

 occur within it, especially as the station last named under v. is only just 

 beyond its western border. Centunculus ascends to 700 feet by Hingston 

 Down, in District ii. Probably from its small size it is often overlooked, 



