60 Dr. H. Franklin Parsons on the 
Deschampsia ceespitosa Festuca ovina 
D. flexuosa. 8. Bromus ramosus 
Holcus mollis B. erectus. C. Old pit opposite 
H. lanatus Cooper’s Cottages 
Trisetum pratense B. sterilis 
Arrhenatherum avenaceum B. commutatus 
Sieglingia decumbens. B. B. mollis 
Cynosurus cristatus Brachypodium gracile 
Koeleria cristata Solium perenne 
Melica uniflora Agropyrum repens 
Dactylis glomerata Nardus stricta. B. E. corner 
Poa annua Hordeum murinum 
P. nemoralis Molinia varia. B. 
Glyceria fluitans. A. Ponds  Pteris aquilina 
7.—Some Notes on tHE Ftora or THE HastTERN BorpER OF 
Dartmoor, 
By H. Franxuin Parsons, M.D., F.G.S. 
(Read November 18th, 1902.) 
Tur following notes on the plants of a neighbourhood in some 
respects unlike our own are based on observations made during 
a fortnight spent in the first part of August, 1902, at Manaton, 
a village near the eastern border of Dartmoor. Owing to the 
elevated character of the region—the altitude varying from 400 
to 1700 ft., and averaging about 1000 ft.—the vegetation there 
was considerably—I should estimate about three weeks—more 
backward than that in the neighbourhood of Croydon, being about 
as advanced as it would be with us in the middle of July; hence 
the proportion of plants still in flower was greater than it would be 
here. The neighbourhood comprises pasture, cultivated ground, 
woodland, moor, rock, bog, and running streams, but little still 
water. The subsoil is granite, except in a portion of the lower 
ground, where it consists of altered carboniferous shales. On 
these shales the surface soil exhibits more tendency to become 
peaty than on the granite, where, except on the higher hills, it 
is generally a brown gritty loam rather than peat, The flora 
also exhibited a corresponding difference, several plants, as 
Myrica Gale, Radiola linoides, and Pinguicula lusitanica, being 
found on the shales but not on the granite. The granite on the 
hills often crops out in rocky tors, or forms large rounded 
detached blocks; and these rocky masses are commonly covered 
with a luxuriant growth of mosses and lichens. 
