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hedge-rows about Blue Anchor. In the vieinity of Dunster 
the botanist has a good opportunity of studying the Rubi. 
I am assured by Mr. Lees, the well-known investigator of 
this genus, that the woods around are particularly rich in 
the various species. In the wood surrounding Conygar 
Tower I have colleected Rubus amplificatus, rosaceus, 
Sprengelii, and all the commoner kinds. Near Boniton 
Wood, and in the woods along the Timberscombe road, 
oceurs a peculiar species of raspberry, named Rubus Leesii 
by Mr. Babiugton, in honour of Mr. Lees, who first dis- 
covered it at Ilford Bridges, near Lynton. 
The specific differences will at once be seen on examina- 
tion with ‘the common kind, Rubus idoeus, which grows 
commonly in the same woods. They also afford Rubus 
suberectus, rudus, fuscus, villicaulis, Lindleianus, am- 
plifieatus, vestitus, cordifolius, änd others of this inte- 
resting but, until lately, little investigated genus. Melittis 
melissophyllum grows in the woods on the road-side near 
Cuteombe, and Mecanopsis cambrica near Stowey Mill and 
in Culbone Woods, near Porlock. On Dunkery, the rarest 
flowering plant is one of the Orchidex, Listera cordata. 
With the exception of Coddon Hill, near Barnstaple, this 
is the only station for it in the West of England. Empe- 
trum nigrum, Lycopodium clavatum, also grows on Porlock 
Hill; selago and alpinum are in this distriet confined to 
Dunkery. T'he small patches of boggy ground that oceur 
on the hills produce Eriophorum vaginatum, and angusti- 
folia, Drosera rotundifolia, Narthecium ossifragum, Erica 
tetralix, Hypereium elodes, and other less conspicuous spe- 
cies. Bordering the little rivulets which take their course 
down the sheltered combes, may be observed one of the 
rarest plants of the district, and until the last few years 
only known as a native of Cornwall—this is the delicate 
