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I have searched the Seaton locahty, but have never been able to meet 

 with this plant there. 



First record : Pascoe, 1847. 



599. A. portulacoides, L. Sea Purslane. 



Native ; on mud-flats and in waste spots by tidal rivers and inlets. 

 Rather common. August, September. 

 c. I. St. Germans ; Keys, FL iii. 209. Wacker and Denabole. By the 

 Notter, near Trevollard. Polbathick. By Forder Lake. 

 II. By Millbrook Lake, near Southdown. Saltash. Kingsmill. 

 Cargreen. 

 D. III. Keyham ; id. et. ih. By Weston Mills Lake. Kinterbury. 

 Tamerton, Blaxton. Beer Ferrers. 

 V. By Coffleet Lake. 

 As yet never found by the estuaries of the Pl}iii and Erme, though so 

 frequent about the tidal Avaters of the N otter and Tamar. 



POLYGONACE^. 



KUMEX, L. 



600. R. conglomeratus, Murr. Sharp Dock. 



Native ; by roadsides, in damp waste ground, and in marshes. 

 Very common. July to September. Area general. 

 Grows close to the town, and is one of the most widely diffused species 

 of the genus. 



601. R. rupestris, Le Gall. Rock Dock. 



Native ; on maritime rocks and low cliffs, also in sandy or stony 



spots on the sea-shore. Rather common. July, August. 

 c. I. On the shore at Downderry; also a little to the east of Port 



Wrinkle. 

 II. By Whitsand Bay at Tregantle, also in plenty on rocks at its 



eastern end, near Rame Head, growmg with B. conglomeratus 



and R. crispus. 

 D. V. In plenty on the stony shore between Wembury Point and the 



church, growing with R. cmiglomeratus and R. cris2nis. On 



rocks by Bigbury Bay, at Wadham. 

 VI. By the little cove below Kingston, on the shore of Bigbury Bay. 



A single plant on the western side of the Erme estuary, below 



Pamflete, in a spot fully exposed to the sea breezes and tidal 



influences of the broad estuary, though half-a-mile from the 



open sea, 1876. 



