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LILIACE^. 



POLYGONATUM, Tournef. 



696. P. multiflorum, All. Common Solomon^s Seal. 



Native ; in woods, and elsewhere as an introduction. Rare, and 



extremely local. May, June. 



c. 11. Hare wood, near Calstock ; G^oz^/fZ., iTeys, i^^. iii. 236. Introduced? 



D. III. Tamerton Foliot, Mr. Broivn; Manadon Wood; Banks, Ft. 



part 2. Seen in the gi'ounds near Manadon House. 



IV. [Plymbridge, Mr. Sconce; Banks, ih. Hedge-bank very near 



Forder farm-house, Egg Buckland ; destroyed some years ago.] 



V. Scattered all over a large wood at Torr, on the left bank of the 



Yealm, growing with Ranunculus auricomus, Lamium Galeob- 



dolon, Allium ursinum, &c. ; Jour. Bot. vi. 207. In Eastern 



Torrs Wood, above the right bank of the river. In a wood 



near Yealm Bridge, wild, 1871 ; Keys, Fl. iii. 236 ; probably 



Western Torrs Wood, where it grows in considerable quantity. 



Apparently only indigenous in the woods on the limestone just around 



Yealmpton village. 



iJONVALLARIA, L. 



697. C. majalis, L. Lily of the Valley. 



Native ; m an elevated wood, on granite. Very rare. May. 

 D. IV. In an aboriginal wood at Shaugh, occurring m considerable 

 quantity over about ten square yards, intermixed with Vac- 

 cinium, Scabiosa succisa, Aira Jlexuosa, Pteris, &c. Elevation, 

 a little over 600 feet. 

 Discovered by Mr. Francis Brent, of Plymouth, in June, 1874. 



Asparagus officinalis, L. Occasionally seen about gardens, sprung 

 from the seed of cultivated plants. 



EUSCUS, L. 



698. R. aculeatus, L. Common Butcher^s Broom. 



Native ; on bushy banks and cliffs. Very rare. March, April. 



c. II. A very thick patch for about two yards on a hedge-bank between 

 Rame Church and Rame Head, near Rosa sjnnossima, with 

 which it is also associated in District vi. Hedge near Cargreen ; 

 introduced. 



j>. III. About Tamerton Foliot, Mr. Browne ; Warleigh Woods ; Banks, 

 Fl. part 1. Seen above the inlet at Tamerton Foliot, where it 

 is perhaps an introduction, as it occurs in garden hedges in the 

 same neiorhbourhood. 



