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c. I. I^ear Sheviock Quay ; Jacob, Ft. part 18 ; still by the N otter in 

 that neighbourhood, at Shillingham, &c, 

 II. Millbrook Creek ; Keys, FL iii. 208. By St. Johns Lake. Car- 

 green. 

 D. III. Weston Mills Lake ; acres of mud are here covered with it every 

 summer. Kmterbury Creek. Tamerton Creek. Near Beer 

 Ferrers. 

 IV. Crabtree ; Jacob, FL part 18. By the Plym estuary, below 

 Saltrara. 

 V. CoffleetLake. 

 VI. Efford. Below Cling Mill. 



Often grows in places where it is submerged at high tide. 

 First record : Jacob, 1837. 



BETA, Tournef. 



687. B. maritima, L. Sea Beet. 



Native ; on sea-cliffs and about the banks of salt water inlets 

 and tidal rivers. Very common. June to October. 

 Grows on the open coast cliffs, as well as plentifully about the tidal 

 waters of all the Districts. In some quantity at Tin Side, below Ply- 

 mouth Hoe, 1880. 



Rarely gathered to boil as a vegetable, but not made the use of for 

 culmary purposes that it deserves to be. 

 First record : Jones, in Bot. Tour, 16 ; 1820. 



CHENOPODIUM, L. 



588. C. polyspermum, L. Mamj-seeded Goosefoot. 



Colonist or Native ; m cultivated ground and about the borders 

 of fields. Rare, but widely distributed. July to September, 

 c. I. Near Antony ; one plant in a field of mangold -snu'zel, &c., near 

 the village ; one in another, nearer Antony House, 1877 ; again 

 one in the locality, 1879. A few in a field at Sconner, Sheviock, 

 1878. 

 II. Neighbourhood of Toipoint ; 1861, 1876. 

 D. III. Corn-field at Blaxton, 1868. 



IV. Fursdon, Egg Buckland, 1862 ; near Stoneybridge, in the same 

 parish, 1864. 

 V. Among cabbages in a damp clayey field close to Ford, between 



Ridgway and Lee Mill Bridge, rather sparmgly, 1877. 

 VI. Near Ivj^bridge, on the banks of the Erme ; Jones, Tour, 14 ; 

 seen in that neighbourhood, 1865. Many plants m a cultivated 

 peaty field near Hanger Down, 1878. 

 First record : Jones, 1820. 



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