332 DIOSCOREACE^. 



GALANTHUS, L. 



694. G. nivalis, L. Common Snowdrop. 



Denizen or Alien ; on hedge-Lanks about old houses and in 

 orchards. Ratiier rare. Part of January, February. 



c. I. On a hedge-bank close to a farm-house at St. Stephens. 



II. On two hedge-banks, each by a vegetable garden, at the hamlet 

 of Lower Tregantle ; in one case with Tanacetum and Melissa 

 growing very near. A large patch on a hedge-bank by an 

 orchard close to Hay farm-house, near Antony. 



D. III. Ilonicknowle, Mr. C. Johns; Budshead, Mr. Bone; Weston 

 i\Iills ; Banks, Fl. part 1. Hedge-bank opposite an old farm- 

 house, near King's Tamerton. Some patches on a hedge-bank, 

 the boundary evidently of an old garden-plot, close to a farm- 

 house at Burrington, Pennycross. Hedge-bank by an orchard 

 near Tamerton Mill. On one below an orchard near an old 

 house at Lophill. In abundance in a w^ood, and also in a few 

 spots in its vicmity, near the grounds at Maristow ; evidently 

 not indigenous. 

 IV. Orchards about jNIeavy, Rev. J. S. Tozer ; plentiful in the 

 meadows and hedges opposite the steward's house at Saltram ; 

 Banks, Fl. ib. In profusion in an orchard, in which Hellehoriis 

 viridis occurs, close to Hay farm, near Elburton, extending to 

 a hedge-bank ; also on a hedge-bank opposite a farm-house by 

 the road from Elburton to Plympton. Hedge-bank near Herd- 

 wick farm-house. Border of an orchard at Butlass. 

 V. Orchards about Langdon Hah ; Banks, ib. ; grows there by a car- 

 riage drive towards the church. In al)undance on a hedge-bank 

 close to a farm-house near Brixton. Bank by an orchard, Torr, 

 near Yealmpton. Small orchard near Lutton, &c., Cornwood. 

 VI. A plant or two on a bank opposite Flete w^estern lodge, growuig 

 near Hypericum hircinum. Some patches m an orchard at 

 Ludbrook. 

 Clearly not an indigenous species. 



DIOSCOREACE^. 

 TAMUS, L. 

 695. T. communis, L. Black Br iony. 



Native ; in hedges, copses, woods, and bushy places. Very 

 common. Part of ^lay to July, or later. Area general. 

 Occurs in the inunediate neighbourhood of Plymouth, as between the 

 to^vIl and Milehouse, and extends thence to the semi-moorland parishes, 

 Cornwood, Buckland ^lonachomm, &c. 



