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D. III. Ham ; Rev. C. T. CoUiiu, Banks, Fl. part 7 : probably planted. 

 A feAv plants in a field at Crownhill, Knackersknowle, 1875 ; 

 likely to have been sown with grass seeds a few years previous. 

 IV. In an old pasture on limestone at Cattedown ; known there for 

 many years past. Four plants in a field at Goosewell, Egg 

 Buckland. 

 V. In considerable quantity ui the lawn of AVembury House, 1873 ; 

 still there, 1878. 

 On two or three occasions I have known this to appear singly or in very 

 small numbers on the turf of gardens in Plymouth. Doubtless here it 

 has always been introduced with grass seeds, or in some other way. It 

 may be indigenous at Cattedown, possibly also in Districts ii. and v. In 

 Keys's Flora I am erroneously stated to have given Roborough Down as 

 a station for this species. 



580. P. lanceolata, L. Coramon Bih-grass; '■Hard Head.'' 



Native ; on grassy banks and commons, in pastures and fodder 

 fields. Very common, April to September. Area general. 

 Grows on the turf of some Plymouth gardens, and in the churchyard 

 of Charles, as well as on Dartmoor. Several plants have been known for 

 .some years past on top of the wall bounding the grounds of the Naval 

 Hospital, at Stonehouse, on the south. The variety Timhali has been 

 noticed between Mutley and Pounds ; there probably as an introducticm. 

 It, however, also occurs on a mass of rock at the eastern end of Whitsand 

 Bay, and on a cliff at Port Wrinkle Avhat looks an intermediate form 

 appears, with a perennial tufted rootstock and perfectly glabrous leaves, 

 but with spikes lacking the silvery white appearance of those of Timhali. 

 Sometimes P. lanceolata is found bearing compound spikes. Banks 

 speaks of " a variety " occurring at Cremil Point and Whitsands " with 

 black globular heads of flowers upon slender, rounded scapes, and short 

 leaves ; " of another, " near the sea about Keyham," in which the scape 

 "elevates a tuft of many proper leaves, from among which proceed 

 several naked stalks, each bearing a short terminal spike of flowers. " A 

 plant variegated by having the edges of the leaves of a light yellow in a 

 field at Newbridge (iii.), 1879. 



581. P. maritima, L. Sea Plantain. 



Native ; on damp rocks and in muddy places by salt or brackish 

 waters. Common. May to September, 

 c. I. Near Wacker Mill. Polbathick. Tideford. By Forder Lake. 

 II. Between Torpoint and St. Johns ; Keys, Fl. iii. 204. JMount 

 Edgcumbe. By Millbrook Lake. Cotehele. 

 D. III. By Weston Mills Lake. Kinterbury Creek. Tamerton Creek. 

 Blaxton. Near Holes Hole. By the Tavy, near Beer Ferrers. 



