304 URTICACE^. 



URTIC AG E^. 



PARIETARIA, Tournef. 



631. P. diffusa, Koch. Fell 'dory of the Wall. 



Native ; on old walls and on very dry stony or rocky banks, 

 especially by tidal waters and near houses. Common. May to 

 November. 

 c. I. Trematon, &c., St. Stephens. St. Germans. St. Erney church- 

 tower, 1871. Tideford. Pillaton. 

 II. Rame. Bank by Millbrook Lake. St. Johns. Tinnel. Cotehele. 

 St. Mellion. 

 D. III. Between Swilly and Boldventure. Plymouth and Tavistock Road, 

 near Torr Grove. Dry bank above Kinterbury Creek. On 

 rocky banks, &c., by Tamerton Creek. St. Budeaux. Beer 

 Ferrers. 

 IV. Hoe ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 351 ; still in the crevices of lime- 

 stone rocks above the steps at Tin Side, 1880. On the wall of 

 a storehouse close to the Barbican Quay, Plymouth. Catte- 

 down. Tothill. Lane between Mannamead and Lipson. 

 Plymstock. Plympton. Thornbury, Egg Buckland. 

 V. Wembury. Newton Ferrers. Brixton. Hedge in the vale of 

 the Yealm, near Puslinch Bridge. Between Westlake and 

 Yealm Bridge. Dunstone. 

 VI. Mothecombe. Near Carsewell. Kingston. Modbury. Ermington. 

 Decidedly indigenous on banks and low cliffs by many of the tidal 

 waters, but probably an escape about some of the villages of the area. 

 I have once seen it in cultivation on account of alleged medicinal value. 

 It is given as 'common' in Banks's Flora, but without any special stations 

 being named. 



Fii'st record : Banks, 1830. 



TJRTICA, Tournef. 



632. XJ. dioica, L. Common Nettle. 



Native ; in waste places, thickets, pastures, and on the borders 



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



A tall slender form or variety, perhaps the var. h. angustifolia, W. and 



G., of Babington's Manual, grows by the roadside between Marsh Mills 



and Plympton St. Mary Church (District iv.). 



633. TJ. urens, L. Small Nettle. 



Native or Colonist ; in waste places, by roadsides, and on manure 

 heaps, mostly near houses ; also as a weed in cultivated ground. 

 Common. March to October. 



