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PLUMBAGINACE^. 



ARMEEIA, Willd. 



676. A. maritima, Willd. Sea Pink. 



Native ; on rocks, cliffs, and turfy banks ; also by salt water 

 inlets and tidal rivers. Very common. JMay to July. Area 

 maritime. 

 One of the commonest species on the coast and about the river 

 estuaries. On the mud banks of the latter sometimes very small, with 

 almost sessile heads of only a few flowers. A variety with white ones 

 seen at Mount Batten (District iv.) and by Bigbury Bay, below Kings- 

 ton (vi.). The common plant occurs under the Hoe. 



STATICE, L. 

 577. S. binervosa, G. E. Sm. 



a. occidentalism Lloyd. Lesser Sea Lavender. 



Native ; in damp soil on a cliff" by the coast. Very rare. July, 

 August. 

 c. I. On the cliffs near Crafthole ; Jooies, Tour, 16 (as aS'. Limonium). 

 Rocks and sandy cliffs, one mile west of Lugger's Cave, Rev. 

 Dr. Jacob, Banks, Fl. part 5 (as S. spathulata). Occurs in 

 somewhat small quantity, extending over an inconsiderable 

 portion of a low damp cliff by Whitsand Bay. The two records 

 quoted have doubtless reference to one and the same spot there. 

 First record : Jones, 1820. 



S. Limonium. Near Bovisand, Mr. Radley ; Banks, FL part 5. 

 Error, doubtless. 



PLANTAGINACE.^. 



PLANTAGO, L. 



678. P. major, L. Greater Plantain. 



Native ; in waste places, by paths, roadsides, in pastures and 

 fields. Very common. June to September. Area general. 

 Often seen on the turf of small garden-plots in the town of Plymouth : 

 some plants on top of a wall in Mill Street, 1880. 



679. P. media, L. Honey Plantain. 



Native or Colonist ; in pastures and fields. Very rare. June to 

 September. 

 c. II. In plenty in a pasture adjoinmg Albert Terrace, Torpoint, 1871. 

 Sparingly in a field at St. Johns, 1868 ; still there, 1873. 



